Romney’s Warsaw Speech

William Kristol The Weekly Standard 7/31/2012

Mitt Romney’s stop in Jerusalem will probably remain the highlight of his foreign trip, but his eloquent and powerful speech today in Warsaw deserves more notice than it will probably get. In his remarks, Romney suggests a theme for his trip as a whole and a rationale for visiting […]

Big Lies in Politics

The Nazi philosophy of lying to the public prevails in the current administration.

Thomas Sowell The American Spectator 7/31/2012

It was either Adolf Hitler or his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who said that the people will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough, loud enough. Although the Nazis were defeated […]

Anne Frank’s diary turns 70

Anne Frank poses in 1941 (Anne Frank House). Click on the image to enlarge

Dylan Stableford The Cutline 6/12/2012

Seventy years ago, on her 13th birthday, Anne Frank received what would become the world’s most famous diary.

The red-checkered notebook was given to Frank by her father, Otto, on June 12, 1942—22 days […]

Normandy, 6 June 1944

FDR D-Day Speech June 6, 1944

zymurg2007 YouTube 6/6/2007

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speech on the eve of invasion of Normandy, June 06, 1944. Prevelant today.

 

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Normandy Speech: President Reagans Address Commemorating 40th Anniversary of Normandy/D-Day

ReaganFoundation YouTube 4/16/2009

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Shocker: AFL-CIO Names New Super PAC After Communist Newspaper

Rob Port Say Anything 6/2/2012

You can’t make this stuff up:

Workers’ Voices, a front group for the AFL-CIO, has been billed as the “largest union super-PAC,” even though its own website declares it is not an exclusively union-oriented organization. “Workers’ Voice represents and fights for all working families, union and non-union,” the site proclaims. […]

Genius! Smartest President evah insults major European ally…again

“Don’t know much about history…”

29 May 2012

And you thought awarding the cherished Medal of Freedom to a well-known socialist was the indignity of the day. It might be, but this runs a close second:

“The president referred to ‘Polish death camps’ while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, […]

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