Even Obama partisans know that for many Americans “hope and change” translate into disappointment and despair. No amount of convention rhetoric, appeals to emotion or Clinton spin can conjure up a positive response to the question: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”   Read the rest of this entry »

Berlin 1961 tells the back-story of the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author did a masterful job of weaving together recently declassified documents in the U.S., Germany and Russia and first person narratives for a previously untold account of these seminal events. Readers who remember these occurrences will be appalled at how the American public was deluded by government secrecy and a media smitten with a handsome, eloquent, but dangerously incompetent president.   Read the rest of this entry »

More evidence that the MSM is in the tank.   Read the rest of this entry »

Candace Millard artfully weaves President James A. Garfield’s story with the lives of the people he intersected. The result is a tale of nobility, ego, villainy, loyalty, weakness and redemption.   Read the rest of this entry »

Some pretty disgusting stories from a disgusting administration.   Read the rest of this entry »

America is in danger of dying of stupidity. Never mind that the road to oblivion is well marked with expanding bureaucracies, profligate spending, high taxes, and minuscule economic growth. This president urges us to embark and pay no attention to the fiscal and human disasters of those who traveled this way before.   Read the rest of this entry »

In the process of assigning grades Hayward manages to be both scholarly and entertaining. His combination of neglected and forgotten historical information with trenchant observations injects color into what otherwise might be dull reading. This book should be read because it is more than a “Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents.” It is a cautionary account of how Wilson’s dream of the unrestrained state guided only “by the exigencies and the new aspects of life itself” became today’s nightmare of profligate spending, crony capitalism, destruction of the rule of law, and, inevitably, failing a course change, bankruptcy and tyranny.   Read the rest of this entry »

Radical-in-Chief is an excellent book, but it is not an easy one to read. The author’s extensive research and meticulous attention to detail demands that readers, like the author, be determined truth-seekers.   Read the rest of this entry »

If there ever was a line between vulgarity, violations of personal privacy, mendacity and acceptable campaigning, the Democratic Party leadership and its media minions tread it into oblivion long ago.   Read the rest of this entry »

This first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick almost wasn’t written. Those interested in understanding US political history over the last 50 years can be grateful that it was. Jeane Kirkpatrick’s evolution from liberal (before the word became a pejorative) Democrat to Reagan Republican is also the story of how the radical left hijacked the Democratic Party, the winning of the Cold War, and an account of a group of individuals whose collective brainpower could move a planet out of orbit.   Read the rest of this entry »