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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Reveals Civil War’s Divine Meaning
It is no small thing to grasp the true significance of current events, let alone their spiritual meaning. Sure, any man can tell you that the southern states seceded because Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election,…
Putin is closing Moscow’s gulag museum, erasing inconvenient history
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow has been permanently closed. I wrote about my 2016 visit to the museum dedicated to detailing the brutalities experienced by 15 million to 18 million Soviet citizens imprisoned and 1.5…
Three medals of honor | Power Line
Taking time out from what must be a slightly busy schedule, President Trump awarded Medals of Honor to soldiers serving in World War II (Master Sergeant Roddy Edmonds, posthumous), Vietnam (Command Sergeant Major Terry…
A long and bloody résumé
I recently returned to Mark Bowden’s Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America’s War With Militant Islam. Supporting one front in the war of memoray against forgetting, it’s an invaluable…
‘The Kissinger Tapes’ collects Kissinger’s secret phone recordings
The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations, edited by Tom Wells, Oxford University Press, 640 pages, $34.99 Some consider Henry Kissinger a master statesman who advanced American interests by deftly…
How Can the Boy Scouts Restore Trust After Betraying Its Values?
How does an organization like the Boy Scouts of America restore trust after betraying its values? Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has given the Boy Scouts a chance, but it remains unclear whether the historic organization will…
What the ICE crackdown and China’s one-child policy have in common
In 1988, Peng Peiyun was assigned to China's State Family Planning Commission. Her job was to implement the relatively new one-child policy. The Communist Party was sure that it knew how many people should be in the…
My mistake (thinking of Leo Thorsness)
Thinking about Leo Thorsness when I posted Tom West’s message about Royce Williams yesterday, I inserted the “Air Force” instead of “Navy” as the branch of the jet accompanying Williams on his Medal of Honor mission. Mr.…
A medal of honor for Royce Williams
The recognition of American heroes constituted perhaps the most telling highlight of President Trump’s State of the Union Address last night. Among them was Royce Williams and the award of a long overdue Medal of Honor for…
What Does ‘No One Is Illegal on Stolen Land’ Really Mean?
It may seem inane and hardly worth comment, but there’s actually something profoundly revealing in singer-songwriter Billie Eilish’s declaration at the Grammy’s last Sunday. The statement “no one is illegal on stolen land”…
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