Category: History
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Karl wrote: Mr. Duke: I sent your link to my list. This came in from a fellow who lives in south Africa. He's a good man. He gave me permission to forward to you. If you have time to correspond with him, I would be interested in being copied. Sent: 12/24/2009 12:09:14 P.M. Eastern Standard…
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By Bruce Walker The world has known for many years that the wages of appeasement are the loss of moral high ground to monstrous villains. During the Cold War, although America usually kept its military power adequate to deter Soviet aggression, the American Left (and European Left) blithely pretended that a regime which conspired with…
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By Bruce Walker By all accounts, Walter Cronkite was a kindly, almost avuncular figure. Many members of the journalist community have written eulogies of his decency and humility. He had a long, happy marriage. These things should count to us conservatives, who yearn for human life to be more about how it is lived than…
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By Bruce Walker The media – newspapers, magazines, book publishing, radio, television, and film – have never at any point in the history of our nation been impartial. Newspapers were once the whole heart and substance of our media. They provided news, opinion, entertainment, advice, humor, advertisements and information. Newspapers were often unabashed partisans.
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By Bruce Walker Twenty years ago the light of liberty flickered briefly in China. In May 1989, Chinese students built a “Goddess of Liberty,” alternatively called a “Goddess of Democracy,” in Tiananmen Square. Throughout much of China, the subjects of the nation, on the fortieth anniversary of the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War,…
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By Selwyn Duke Pope Benedict XVI gave a speech at Israel’s Yad Veshem Holocaust Memorial this past Monday, during which he paid tribute to the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide. His words were not well-received by all, however, as some Israeli critics expected an apology from Benedict and felt that he was “restrained” in his…
