STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY
While Dr. Henry Kissinger was attending the Moscow Summit in June, he declaimed to reporters: “One of the things we have to ask ourselves as a country is…
Category: U.S. History
BICENTENNIAL
By common consent over nearly two centuries, the day Americans celebrate as our most important national patriotic anniversary is the Fourth of July. The Bicentennial of our nation…
COMPUTERS
Computers are an American invention, and we have stayed far ahead of the rest of the world in their development and production. Our second, third and fourth generation…
GROUP GUILT
The other day, I received a letter from John Gardner of Common Cause. There wasn’t anything confidential about the letter. Probably several million other persons received the identical…
SHORTAGE OF BREAD
In the nearly 200-year history of our country, we have never before run short of bread. Even in wars, severe drouths and floods, we have always had enough…
MARXIST ART
When the Bicentennial Center for the District of Columbia recently dedicated its new buildings, a weird mural was unveiled for Washington dignitaries. In what was expected to be…
SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS
History is full of examples of how government controls of various kinds create shortages of economic goods. There simply is no way that a government bureaucracy can run…
SOLZHENITSYN’S NEW BOOK
In THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, Shakespeare wrote: “Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.” But how long can it be hidden? A year? Ten years?…
PEARL HARBOR ANNIVERSARY
“Enjoy your dream of peace just one more day. Hawaii, you will be caught like a rat in a trap.” Those were the words of Japanese Admiral Matome…
John F. Kennedy
Many memorials have been given this month on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It is good to recall the…