Although a new presidential administration and Republican Congress have claimed support for civil liberties, support remains strong for the liberty-destroying FISA law. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts have left a positive and lasting legacy.
Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, Sherman‘s actions would have been judged as war crimes had he not been on the winning side.
"Where do you put him in the moral scale? It seems to me you put Mr. Nixon pretty close to the bottom."
"The theory of historians... is that anybody who's really radical is a nut."
Progressives have created the fiction in which the US Constitution “is what the Supreme Court says it is.” In reality, the justices simply interpret the Constitution according to modern statist progressive viewpoints that fit their own progressive narratives.
What answer explains the heinous attack in New Orleans while making the fewest logical leaps? Perhaps it is another instance of the unintended costs of the global War on Terror.
The Cultural Revolution continues apace in this country and it is aimed at all of the old Confederate symbols from statues to the Confederate Battle Flag. With leftist progressives there can be no discussion. Any symbol from the South equates to racism and nothing else.
How should we approach the study of history? An unfortunate trend has been to implement “history by theory” in which practitioners take theories and present them as facts. An honest approach is to take the historical facts and interpret them through coherent theories.
