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How Mount Rushmore came to be. There is more to Mount Rushmore’s 60-foot heads of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln than meets the eye. Find out what makes this american national treasure so special. Although renamed in popular culture as “Presidents’ Day,” the federal holiday we celebrate the third Monday of
Raymond Ibrahim, Even in this “exclusively” European enterprise, the hidden hand of Islam lurks in the background. Islam’s history with the West has been one of unwavering antagonism and seismic clashes, often initiated by the former. By the standards of history, nothing between the two civilizations is as well documented as this long war. Accordingly, for more
Pat Buchanan, In a way, Donald Trump might be called The Great Uniter. Bear with me. No Republican president in the lifetime of this writer, not even Ronald Reagan, united the party as did Trump in the week of his acquittal in the Senate and State of the Union address. According to the Gallup Poll,
Tiffiny Ruegner, Brasspills.com #7 Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages is NOT what you think! So, let’s start with the mortality rate of babies in the Middle Ages. When we talk ‘life expectancy’ historians have always included infant mortality. The infant mortality rate was somewhere between 30% and 50%. These figures include the high number
Jerry Newcombe, Last week movie director Oliver Stone told the television program Russia Today that America is now “the evil empire.” This is in reference to President Reagan’s famous remark in the mid-1980s that the Soviet Union was “the evil empire.” Reagan got a lot of flak from the left for saying that. But Reagan was right. The
Andrew Bostom, Was an interfaith junket to Auschwitz only a Muslim public relations stunt? Whether one considers the masses of Muslims who have been flowing into Europe as (primarily) economic refugees, proud hijra colonists “quietly” Islamizing the continent, or both, these newly-arrived votaries of Islam express an unabashed Islamic Jew-hatred. Their virulently anti-Jewish attitudes are consistent with the disproportionate three-fold increased rate of extreme anti-Semitism among Western
Caroline Glick, Dozens of world leaders mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. What the foreign leaders who came to Jerusalem last week to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz will take home from their visits is unknowable. But we do know what they brought with them. Whether they intended to or
Diana West, The Next Star Chamber I have finally developed an axiom about Sen. Joseph McCarthy: The more one learns about McCarthy — facts, not the catechism of lies continuously recited like some demonic liturgy — the more one despises the mindset that reviles him. If that sounds harsh, it is not a hasty formulation.
“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law.” That is the reasoning of the Government Accounting Office, which has just concluded that President Trump’s budget office violated federal law in freezing U.S. aid to Ukraine. It certainly would have been
The United States militia is enshrined in the Second Amendment of the Constitution. And while the militia movement of today is widely known, its history – and the history of independent Constitutional militias stretching back to the dawn of the republic – is far less well known. Why does this matter nowadays? Because understanding the historical roots of
Lloyd Billingsley, Iranian general Qassem Soleymani was a master terrorist who orchestrated atrocities around the world that claimed thousands of lives, including hundreds if not thousands of Americans. That was the default position after President Trump took out Soleymani last week. The Democrats’ furious reaction overlooked realities about the Iranian regime in general and Soleymani
Raymond Ibrahim, Taqiyya Sunset — Exposing the Darkness Shrouding Islamic Deceit In “Taqiyyah Sunrise: Shining Light on Contemporary Deception,” published by the Jewish Chronicle on December 19, 2019, Usama Hasan, a board member of the British think tank Quilliam, declares that This article seeks to clarify the origins, meaning, and application of the concept of taqiyyah. In doing so, my