Tag: History

Monday is the 50th anniversary of Guevara's death. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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Che Guevara was an evil, possibly psychopathic, idiot

Tom Rogan · October 9, 2017 7:58 pm

The Left's attempts this year to whitewash history, magnifying a man's flaws over his positive contributions, is not only disingenuous but ridiculous. (Dave Scherbenco/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

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Getting upset about Columbus Day is peak Antifa absurdity

Nicole Russell · October 9, 2017 3:23 pm

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Philip Terzian · October 9, 2017 1:10 pm

Christopher Columbus is believed to be from Genoa, and Italian-Americans were the ones who first lobbied for a Columbus Day celebration in the U.S. (Wikipedia)

Christopher Columbus deserves celebration

Washington Examiner · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

A statue of Christopher Columbus framed by trees.

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Give Christopher Columbus a break

Patrice Lee Onwuka · October 9, 2017 4:01 am

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Philip Terzian · October 6, 2017 8:00 am

‘Norma’-tivity

Nicholas Gallagher · October 6, 2017 8:00 am

Let's pause for a moment and break out the abacus. (Wikipedia Commons)

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For Scientific American, math is hard

Becket Adams · October 5, 2017 10:02 pm

The report offers a "consensus" that "the batteries were used as a power source for transmitters in Sputnik I and Sputnik II." (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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British batteries were used in the sputnik satellites, declassified spy report says

Tom Rogan · October 4, 2017 7:08 pm

There's a risk that California, newly installed at the left extreme of the political spectrum, will tilt the process toward an unelectable left-wing nominee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Michael Barone: California Democrats’ early presidential primary: Unintended consequences?

Michael Barone · October 2, 2017 6:36 pm

The nuclear posturing between the U.S. and North Korea has degraded into a hurl of trash talk. It's as if Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un were wrestlers facing a grudge match refereed by Dennis Rodman -- which, come to think of it, might be an appropriate way to defuse things. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

‘Take That, Rocket Man’: Curbing the Trump-Kim insult arms race

Allan Ripp · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

In 1986, the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

What the US looked like the last time we had tax reform

Kara Zupkus · September 28, 2017 9:36 pm