Tag: History

Illinois middle school parent Kelly Masterton complained online when she discovered her eighth-grade son had drawn swastikas in a cartoon for a homework assignment. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Loser parent stops kids from seeing swastikas in middle school

Tom Rogan · December 11, 2017 10:45 pm

The NAS pointed out that the College Board originally "distorted or ignored whole categories of European history, including the history of political liberty, the history of free-market economic liberty, and the history of religion." (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Advanced placement history course revised after criticisms of glossing over history of religion and the free market

Kate Hardiman · December 11, 2017 4:35 pm

Churn, Baby, Churn

The Scrapbook · December 8, 2017 9:00 am

President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital Wednesday and instructed the State Department to begin the multiyear process of moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. His decision could have deep repercussions across the region. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

The UK should follow Trump’s lead and move the British embassy to Jerusalem

Michael Fabricant MP · December 7, 2017 9:44 pm

"Go get the new book on Andrew Jackson by Brian Kilmeade...Really good. @foxandfriends," Trump tweeted Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Trump urges Twitter followers to buy Fox News host’s history book

Anna Giaritelli · December 7, 2017 1:28 pm

The Japanese wanted to use long-range Kawanishi H8K flying boats to bomb California and Texas. But first, they needed to know how repair operations were going at Pearl Harbor's naval yards, docks, and airfields. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive)

Beltway Confidential

The second time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

J. Mark Powell · December 7, 2017 5:01 am

In this picture, then-U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman (pictured in the center) samples whiskey at Green Brier Distillery in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. This photo opportunity might not have been possible, however, had Prohibition not been repealed in 1933. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Beltway Confidential

My mouth, my choice: Raise a glass to Prohibition Repeal Day

Kevin R. Kosar · December 5, 2017 8:58 pm

The Legacy of John Anderson, Liberal Republican

Philip Terzian · December 5, 2017 6:13 pm

Previous presidents have gone to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to be examined by a doctor and to share the results with the American people. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Reporters press White House for update on Trump’s health

Kimberly Leonard · November 30, 2017 9:46 pm

Days after the word broke that Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and some other left wing politicians have joined the crowded ranks of noted male personalities who exposed themselves to or encroached upon female associates, Michelle Goldberg, one of the New York Times' stable of feminist writers, had the good sense to suggest they be purged. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Forgiving Al Franken: Feminists tighten their grip on the hot stove

Noemie Emery · November 28, 2017 5:01 am

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said, "One of the almost irresistible impulses you have when you lose is to somehow justify why you lost and how you were mistreated: 'I did the right thing! I did!." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

John McCain: ‘The hardest thing to do is just shut up’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 27, 2017 1:59 pm

People watch a TV screen showing images of U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Red Alert Politics

Communism’s creep on the anniversary of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Elias Atienza · November 27, 2017 5:01 am