August 1, 2014

RIP: 'Dutch' Van Kirk, Last Surviving Member of the Enola Gay Crew

Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, passed away in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on Monday, July 28.  “We were the Three Musketeers, Tom Fereb...

July 11, 2009

Slurring Thomas Jefferson

When, in the course of the Clinton presidency, it became necessary to normalize sexual misbehavior among presidents, the memory of Thomas Jefferson was soiled, with the compliance of academic and journalistic liberal elites.On July 4, 1826, the 50th ...

November 8, 2008

Dumbest Palin smear of all?

John McCormack of the Weekly Standard exposes an unbelievably stupid smear from Newsweek, a publication which seems to have no standards left at all. Apparently, anything that makes Sarah Palin look stupid goes right into print, even if the...

August 3, 2008

Hiroshima Hoax: Japan's 'Wllingness to Surrender Before the Bomb

In the mid 1960's, a growing distrust of government and sympathy for the Vietnam protest movement among American intellectuals revitalized the antinuclear "ban the bomb" campaign, which few had taken very seriously before, and spurred criti...

July 24, 2008

The audacity of fiction

Before adoring throngs in Berlin and the entire world's media, Barack Obama stated that "many planes were forced to turn back" from the Berlin Airlift because of the bad weather. Great imagery, but contrafactual.Obama should have read ...

July 21, 2008

That New Yorker cover

The Obama cover was still popping up yesterday in week-in-review commentaries.   Obama and crew are such an utterly humorless bunch.   One thing that had not come up in all the words that have spilled over this is that their ...

July 7, 2007

More on the 'no-jihad zone'

Don't be surprised by LTC Kilcullen's comments.  They are not at all uncommon.  While opinions of the Iraqi military among soldiers and Marines vary widely, generally according to when their tours were and how closely th...

December 26, 2006

If a Quarantine of North Korea is called . . .

North Korea's apparent detonation of a nuclear device in October and threats to test fire nuclear missiles present the United States with no useful military option. But these moves may have finally sent enough of a chill down Chinese spines that we m...

May 8, 2006

Historians riled by book award on the A-bombing decision

Three weeks ago, Robert J. Maddox outlined for American Thinker readers the "contentious debate" swirling around the awarding of the Ferrell Book Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) to Tsuyoshi Hasegawa...