How he caught the West off guard.
To be fair, though, that “stupid” Sarah Palin saw him coming.
Category Archives: History
The Islamists
…need to learn from the history of Dresden. Because they are the modern-day equivalent of the Nazis. But the Left refuses to recognize that. Or worse, sympathizes with them (as it did then, until Hitler violated the pact).
The Resurrection Of The 10th Amendment
The states rise up against Washington:
“People are becoming more and more concerned about the overreach of the federal government,” said center spokesman Mike Maharrey. “They feel the federal government is trying to do too much, it’s too big and it’s getting more and more in debt.”
The 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights reserves to the states powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution. States have long used it as a tool to protect themselves against regulations.
Though federal law trumps state law, Maharrey said states are learning to exercise their own power by pushing back.
Without the resources to enforce its laws, the federal government is forced to rely on state action. When states refuse, federal law becomes virtually unenforceable, he said.
“States were always intended to be a check on federal power,” Maharrey said.
Yes. I also like the Article V solution.
The Crusades
I don’t think this justifies Obama’s comments, though.
If Apollo 11 Had Gone Wrong
XKCD has the other contingency letters.
The Ghosts Of Auschwitz
At the beginning of the decade, Muslim Brotherhood godfather Sayyid Qutb had written his own Mein Kampf titled, “Our Struggle against the Jews” in which he claimed that Allah had sent Hitler. The claim has more recently been repeated by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Al Jazeera in ’09.
“The last punishment was carried out by Hitler… Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers,” he said. Today everyone agrees that the Nazis were evil. By the fifties, even Eichmann’s fellow Nazis were looking to jettison the Holocaust and improve their brand. But the Nazis back then were often treated the way that Muslims are today.
Media coverage emphasized distinctions between the radical and moderate Nazis. (Hitler was, of course, a moderate.) Nazi grievances were treated as legitimate. Their crimes were lied about and covered up.
In 1933, the Associated Press’ wire report claimed that the persecution of Jews had already ended. Another wire story headlined “Jew Persecution Over Says Envoy” cited Secretary of State Hull’s relief that the Hitler regime was doing its best to curb further persecution of the Jews.
Hull would later apologize when the Republican Mayor of New York City referred to the Fuhrer as a “man without honor”. Mayor LaGuardia might have been suffering from Fuhrerphobia.
Jewish protests were treated as shrill and baseless alarmism.
“U.S. Investigation Shows No Cause for Protest,” the AP headlined its coverage.
“Notwithstanding assurances given by German government leaders and by Hull that the Nazi excesses against the Jewish race had ceased in Germany, Jewish leaders went ahead with plans for mass protest meetings,” another wire story read. “All requests that these meetings be canceled fell on deaf ears.”
A week before the story, the first official Nazi concentration camp of Dachau had opened.
The media coverage should sound familiar. It’s how Iran’s nuclear buildup is being covered. It’s how Muslim violence against Jews is covered. It’s discussed reluctantly and immediately dismissed. Jews are written off as pests who refuse to listen when Kerry, like Hull, tells them there’s nothing to worry about.
That is how the Holocaust really happened.
I could be polite, and say their heads are in the sand. But really, they’re up their fundaments.
[Afternoon update]
The Islamic State is raising an army of child soldiers, and we’ll be dealing with them for decades.
But, but…CRUSADES!
Obama The Aloof Heart
This says it all:
I’ll make a deal with Obama. If he finds the people responsible for the Crusades, the Inquisition, or American slavery still alive and malicious, we’ll bomb them too. In the meantime, how about we start telling the truth about the Islamist terrorists who are right now literally enslaving young girls as sex objects, slaughtering anyone who doesn’t think like them, acquiring territory in the Middle East, and threatening attacks on the US and Europe? History professors can blather on ad nauseam about events 1,000 years ago, but Presidents are supposed to focus on the here and now. Skip the ignorant and hypocritical lectures, and do your job.
He doesn’t seem to know what his job is.
[Sunday-morning update]
[Bumped]
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Remember when FDR said we shouldn't get up on our high horse in fighting Imperial Japan and Nazis because we used to have slavery?
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 8, 2015
Remember when Churchill said we should be humble in fighting Nazis because the English used to disembowel traitors?
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) February 8, 2015
[Mid-afternoon update]
Some history of the Crusades for those who (like Obama) are historically ignorant, from Claire Berlinski.
Why Treat Osama As Muslim?
In light of Obama’s idiotic comments at the Prayer Breakfast, this oldie is worth a re-read (or read, if you haven’t).
Obama’s Drones
…have killed more people than the Spanish Inquisition. So he shouldn’t get up on his high horse, I guess.
Sid Caesar
RIP.
Most people are probably too young to know who he was, but he was a comedy genius, of my parents’ time.
[Update Saturday morning]
OK, so I was a year late with the announcement. I was on an airplane just following Twitter links, and didn’t check the date. Worth remembering anyway.