Category Archives: History
Leftists
…are boring. Thoughts on Oliver Stone’s turgid new tome.
An Untold Story Of Pearl Harbor
Finally told. It’s a good read, but I think this probably isn’t right:
Firefighters from the Hickam Air Force Base carried the victims in. The men had a red T marked on their foreheads, mute testimony of the efficiency of first-aiders in giving tetanus shots to ward off lockjaw.
I suspect that it meant that they had tourniquets that had to be managed, not that they’d gotten tetanus shots.
A Day That Will Live In Infamy
Today is not only the 71st anniversary of Pearl Harbor, but also the day that we last sent men to the moon, forty years ago.
[Update a while later]
Pearl Harbor in perspective.
Ten Years After Columbia
Former flight controller (and Shuttle program manager) Wayne Hale has been writing a series of blog posts about his recollections of the events leading up to the disaster. This week, he recalls the harbinger of the previous flight, that should have warned NASA about the problem, but didn’t.
Fermi’s Anniversary
Thoughts on leadership in America, seventy years ago and today.
Early Twentieth-Century “Progressives”
The historical whitewash. As with Jefferson, it’s all about rewriting history.
Jefferson And Slavery
“Maybe Lincoln didn’t understand what was going on as well as Paul Finkelman now does, but I regard that as unlikely.”
So do I. The notion that the nation could have been founded as one without slavery is profoundly historically ignorant. The Founders did the best they could do under the circumstances, and even with such an atrocious flaw it was still the best design of a government in human history up to that time.
Or since, despite the fact that about half the nation seems willing to abandon it.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related.
One Third Of The Way There
It’s been up less than 24 hours, but I’ve already raised 33% of my goal on the Kickstarter. Hope I can keep it up, and vastly exceed it.
Secession?
Let’s try federalism instead. What a concept.