As we approach the end of the Strauss-Howe Generational Cycle that began with the Crisis of 1929-53, and we gradually forget or deny the lessons of history taught us by World War II as the generation which actually fought the war dies out, I've noticed that history is repeating itself with regard to appeasing (Obama) or allying with (Putin) the ( Read more... )

From "Europe is Baffled by the U.S. Supreme Court," in which John Hudson of the Atlantic Wire makes a deeply-futile attempt to make America feel guilty for having an independent judiciary in http://news.yahoo.com/europe-baffled-u-supreme-court-220944850. ( Read more... )

Visiting a local library's free bin (where the library lets you get some free books and magazines), I happened to find an issue of an old radical Left newsletter-style 'zine, named Z, from 1988. Intrigued, I picked it up and read some of the articles over lunch ( Read more... )

(Originally posted in October 2008).

I. PastDuring the 1920's and 1930's, two Powers were dramatically on the Outside of the multi-national political system that made up the League of Nations. These were Germany, which was under Versailles Treaty limitations for its role in starting the Great War; and the Soviet Union, within which festered the ( Read more... )

It's long been suspected that Hitler had a Jewish ancestor, possibly one of whose existence he was aware. Now, genetic research has provided support for this theory.

From "DNA tests reveal 'Hitler was descended from the Jews and Africans he hated'", by Allan Hall in the Daily Mail (Read more... )

The Obamessiah has decided not to deign to grace Germany with his presence on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Administration is claiming that it's a matter of other important business:

For its part, the administration is citing a scheduling conflict. The White House says the president simply does not have ( Read more... )

Until around 2008, I had always wondered why the Western Allies were so fatally passive in the 1930's. They watched a madman come to power in Germany, the very country that they most feared from recent historical experience; watched as he broke the treaty that ended the previous war to rearm; and watched as he began gobbling-up his Minor Power ( Read more... )

The Christian Democrats, led by Angela Merkel, yesterday won the elections in Germany. While this was, from Merkel's point of view, a re-election rather than first ascent to power, the significant difference this time is the composition of Ms. Merkel's victorious coalition. While, in 2005, Merkel had to govern as part of a coalition between her ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Alan M. Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, in Front Page Magazine (http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35708)

(bold emphases mine)

The official leader of the Palestinians, Haj Amin al-Husseini, spent the ( Read more... )

The blogger known as El Ingles deeply affected my thinking about the likely consequences of the Muslim attempt to colonize Europe in his original post at ( Read more... )