Category Archives: Essays

Sad UK Refrain (Apologies to Ella): “It’s Very Clear, Sharia Is [T]Here to Stay”

The dhimmitude of the UK: From the sublime appreciation of Ella (on British TV in 1961 here),  to the horrific subservience to Sharia, circa August, 2013, is very clear. Anne Marie Walters on Sharia in UK, for Standpoint: [W]e routinely … Continue reading

Mutazilite Fantasies: Dross in Islam’s “Golden Age of Reason”

(originally published as “Dross in Yet Another Islamic ‘Golden Age’ ”, The American Thinker, September 5, 2010; Revised in 2012 and re-published in Sharia Versus Freedom, pp. 383-89) The myth of a golden age of Islamic rationalism plays a critical … Continue reading

Ella Fitzgerald: “Cry Me A River”

When Harry Met Ivan (And They Disagreed Over “Joe”…Stalin)

US Army “Communist Specialist” Col. Ivan Yeaton Recognized Harry Hopkins’s Pro-Soviet Perfidy Would the followers of the Rasputin of the White House…would these apostles of the [Rexford] Tugwellian philosophy, which would roll up its sleeves and make America over—use this … Continue reading

David Solway on Ronald Radosh and Diana West

Also posted at at Family Security Matters: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/disagreements-among-conservatives?f=must_reads Disagreements among Conservatives: The Proper Way to Handle Controversy by David Solway The controversy surrounding Diana West’s new book, American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on our Nation’s Character, that erupted over the … Continue reading

Conrad Black’s Vitriol Masks His Own Historical Blindspot

The late military intelligence historian Eduard Mark, whose 1998 analysis identified FDR “co-President” Harry Hopkins as “Source 19” in a cable putatively authored by Soviet spymaster Iskhak Akhmerov, lamented, the indifference of American diplomatic historians to intelligence and of their … Continue reading

An Unambiguous Example of Harry Hopkins’s Pro-Soviet Perfidy, Revealed

Diana West’s American Betrayal enumerates an impressive litany of FDR “co-President” Harry Hopkins’s pro-Soviet activities. Here is a partial listing: his excessive largesse toward the USSR via Lend-Lease, which he oversaw, even to the point, arguably, of sacrificing American and … Continue reading

Lars Hedegaard on “American Betrayal” by Diana West: “Her book is among the most well-documented I have ever read.”

Historian and journalist Lars Hedegaard, who has—wait for it—actually read Diana West’s “American Betrayal,” made these very insightful comments on the book: What Diana West has done is to dynamite her way through several miles of bedrock. On the other … Continue reading

Eminent Cold War Historian Herbert Romerstein Argued Harry Hopkins was Agent 19, and A “Conscious Agent” of the Soviet Union

(Published at American Thinker as “FDR’s Traitor?”) http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/fdrs_traitor.html A controversy has re-ignited over Franklin Delano Roosevelt “co-President” Harry Hopkins’s potential role as an agent promoting Soviet influence operations during World War II. Diana West, in her new book, American Betrayal … Continue reading

Why Egyptian Putschist General Al-Sisi’s Anti-Secular U.S. Army War College Thesis Matters

Posted in full at Pajamas Media  with this title and lede: Egyptian Army General Wrote Radical Thesis While Attending U.S. Army War College—What you need to know about al-Sisi.) Key extracts from the essay: Wednesday, 8/7/13, Foreign Policy made available … Continue reading