Tag: Dwight Eisenhower

Smedley Butler in 1929. (Image source: US Marine Corps)

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When I look back on all of America’s wars, sometimes I wonder how many of them were justified. By entering a certain war, did America’s leaders truly have the welfare of the people in mind? Or were they more concerned about their own power and enrichment? I certainly don’t have the historical chops to exhaustively break down every war the United States has ever fought, but if there is one thing the dissident Right has taught me these past few years, it’s that when the government tells you it’s time for war, hold on to your wallet — because you’re likely to get fleeced. (more…)

Desegregation at gunpoint on the orders of the US Supreme Court.

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The legal regime

A handful of laws and Supreme Court cases have truly shaped and continue to shape the day-to-day lives of Americans and their children. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) is one of those cases. Its consequences have been an unmitigated disaster for white children. (more…)

Lee Harvey Oswald holding the rifle he would use to assassinate JFK and the pistol he would use to murder Dallas policeman J. D. Tippit. He is holding two Communist publications called The Militant and The Worker.[1]

American culture is still spinning wildly from the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 by a self-radicalized antifa gunman acting alone. American liberals and Leftist sympathizers in particular have had a tough time dealing with the murder. Kennedy’s widow later remarked that “[JFK] didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist.”

Jacqueline Kennedy’s remarks perfectly sum up the snobbery and inability to read data that is essential to the mentality of JFK’s political base. Jacqueline Kennedy could have rightly pointed out that Kennedy died fighting Communism in the same way he’d valiantly lived fighting Communism. (more…)

Arnold Schwarzenegger giving a Roman salute, as well as demonstrating the Covid safety distance.

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Countless multitudes recently undertook an annual ritual: making New Year’s resolutions. Surely one of the most popular is to begin an exercise program. For regular gym rats, we observe that the January crowding starts to taper off by February. Perennially, it’s clear evidence that there’s a problem in following through. However, you can take extra assurance by a recent Time article, which tells us that getting fit isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the white thing to do. Thanks, mainstream media! (more…)

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Gary Gerstle
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: American and the World in the Free Market Era
New York: Oxford University Press, 2022

Professor Gary Gerstle teaches at Oxford University and has written several excellent books about America and its racial and social problems. One such book is American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century, which was first published in 2001 and was later updated with a few extra chapters describing Black Lives Matter terrorism and some quotes from the cast of non-whites in the Hamilton minstrel show who were mad about Trump being elected. (more…)

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Edward H. Miller
A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, & the Revolution of American Conservatism 
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021

Professor Edward H. Miller has written a solid biography of Robert Welch, Jr., the founder of the anti-Communist John Birch Society. The book’s only flaw is that it is written from the perspective of a nice white liberal believer in the mainstream media and the reigning “civil rights” narrative. For example, Miller actually mentions Welch’s “white privilege.” (more…)

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Seven Days in May (1964)
Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, & Martin Balsam
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Screenplay by Rod Serling

It is really easy to look back on the sensitive “Have you no decency, sir?” liberals of the early 1960s and dismiss their concerns. (more…)

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Stephen E. Ambrose
Eisenhower: Soldier and President
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990

Dwight D. Eisenhower is an all-American figure both Democrats and Republicans revere.. As a general, he oversaw the largest amphibious invasion in human history and successfully managed the Allied victory in the west. As a president, his term was marked by unprecedented prosperity and stability in America, and he kept us from World War III. (more…)

Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trials.

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David Irving
Nuremberg: The Last Battle
London: Focal Point Publications, 2004

Author’s Note: Thanks are due to the great Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review for his editorial advice. (more…)