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That time the FBI conspired to get George Foreman an award for boxing
The FBI is concerned with a great many things today. Incels. Orgasm cults. Facebook posts. Safe-deposit boxes. Encryption. But in October 1968, the Bureau was concerned with whether George Foreman got the proper recognition…
D-Day remebered | Power Line
My college classmate John Floberg retired after a distinguished career in neurology. We took Professor Peter Bien’s freshman seminar on Politics and the Novel together during our first term. John is originally from Chicago…
Ordeal of Omaha Beach | Power Line
Reader Patti Kruse wrote us a few years ago asking us to persist in our annual remembrance of the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches. “My dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day,” she told us. “He was one of the fortunate…
The fusionist politics of Ronald Reagan
"There are so many people and institutions that come to mind for their role in the success we celebrate tonight," President Ronald Reagan said at the 1981 Conservative Political Action Conference, just two months…
Yes he could | Power Line
Growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, I didn’t recall a time when Sammy Davis, Jr. was not a celebrity along with the rest of the Rat Pack. Although I learned as a teenager that he had overcome obstacles galore on his way to the…
Has the American Empire Fallen?
President Donald Trump returned to Washington in January with a mandate from the American people to end mass migration. That same month, however, the foreign-born population living within America’s borders hit a record high,…
Trump cut funds from wasteful projects to spend on wasteful statue garden
President Donald Trump has pledged to cut government waste, but hasn't delivered much on that front so far. Even when his administration has cut from seemingly obvious sources—for example, federal funding for arts and…
‘Intrepid Women’ recalls anthropological adventures
Today the stereotypical anthropologist sits all day philosophizing about the most basic human interactions while waiting for layers of ethics committees to approve any contact with real people. But anthropology was once a…
Hanson Makes Historical Case for Borders
Military historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson, speaking Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation, drew striking parallels between the empires of the past and the modern United States. Hanson, a Daily Signal contributor,…
Charlie Rangel passes at 94
Only last month I recalled my past visits to the Trump National Doral for stays oriented to the Pritikin diet program that is offered on the premises. My first Pritikin visit, in the summer of 2016, was a bucket list item…
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