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Vance chided for comments on WWII
Dan McLaughlin of National Review Online critiques recent comments from the vice president. JD Vance argued on Meet the Press that the war in Ukraine will need to end with…
Allies of World War II
grouping of the victorious countries of World War II
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Ignorance of History Leads to Consequences
Dominic Pino writes for National Review Online about a political misstep tied to ignorance of history. The Canadian parliament has offered a great illustration of why it’s important to know…
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Underestimated Ike gets his due
Tevi Troy writes for the Weekly Standard about new recognition of President Dwight Eisenhower’s underappreciated accomplishments. Dwight Eisenhower appears to be having a moment. A popular president who was nevertheless…
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Deference versus deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson urges National Review Online readers to “beware international affairs” during the closing months of Barack Obama’s presidential administration. Deterrence is a nation’s ability to discourage aggressors by…
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Obama’s Hiroshima speech and the $300K bill
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon tells us just how much we’ll have to pay for President Obama’s ill-conceived trip to Hiroshima. Taxpayers were billed more than $300,000 for…
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Forbes ponders American policy for Ukraine, Afghanistan
Steve Forbes‘ latest contribution to Forbes magazine includes an assessment of future American policy in two of the world’s hot spots. IT’S NOT TOO SOON to start thinking about what…
Law & Public Safety
Ben Carson Touches a Nerve
View in your browser. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and his wife Candy have just published a new book called A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do…
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Hanson ponders the Last Lion’s legacy
Victor Davis Hanson reminds National Review Online readers about Winston Churchill’s significance in 20th-century history. Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British prime minister Winston Churchill died at age 90.…
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Hanson posits the power of deterrence
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online explains the irreplaceable role of deterrence in preventing war. [D]isputes over honor or from fear do not always lead to war.…
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If you read with interest the recent news accounts of artwork stolen by Nazis …
… you might be interested in revisiting Thomas Thibeault’s 2012 speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Thibeault wrote the novel Balto’s Nose to share the story of the…
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Ineffectiveness: Part of a grand plan?
Ed Rogers has little good to say in a Washington Post “PostPartisan” blog entry about President Obama’s leadership abilities. The left-wing apologencia has a new way of excusing President Obama’s…
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Origins of the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
Most of us probably have at least a vague history-class recollection that Winston Churchill was the man who identified an “iron curtain” separating western Europe from Communist-dominated eastern Europe after…