History

Supported by tanks, Marines of the 1st U.S. Division inch their way up on the beach of Peleliu, during the invasion of the island in the Palau group, on September 14, 1944. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)

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October 2014 out of control? Consider October 1944

October 8, 2014 3:59 pm

Hillary Gets Tocqueville Wrong By 100 Years

Daniel Halper -

October 2, 2014 1:23 pm

Student walk-outs in Jefferson County continued for the third straight day as students from Chatfield High School and Dakota Ridge High School protest Thursday, Sept. 24, 2014, in Littleton, Colo. The students are protesting a proposal by the Jefferson County School Board to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, RJ Sangosti)

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‘A’ is for agitation: What’s really going on in Jefferson County schools

Michelle Malkin -

September 26, 2014 4:38 pm

Carl von Clausewitz understood philosophically and viscerally the wicked, non-linear complexity of unbridled passions, mass violence and rational use of capabilities to pursue strategic goals that is the inescapable condition of international affairs in diplomacy and war.

Columnists

To defeat the Islamic State Obama needs Clausewitz, not Alinsky

Austin Bay -

September 24, 2014 1:37 pm

A view of Ellis Island, New York, in 1927. The opening of Ellis Island coincided with a shift of immigration from northwestern Europe to southern and eastern Europe. (AP Photo)

Columnists

Immigration reformers should learn from history

Michael Barone -

September 22, 2014 9:00 am

Franklin Roosevelt turned America, through Lend-Lease and other subtle devices, into a de facto ally of Britain without breaking any of the laws of neutrality and without alarming a country not ready yet to accept the reality of what it was about to be called on to do. (AP file)

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Obama, FDR a study of contrasts on the edge of war

Noemie Emery -

September 16, 2014 9:00 am

Columnists

Large government out of place in a society based on small technology

Michael Barone -

September 11, 2014 9:00 am

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas., stand together before a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Reagan Library on Sept. 7, 2011, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Magazine

How the GOP got this way

Michael Barone -

September 8, 2014 9:00 am

A Neanderthal rock engraving at Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar. The series of lines scratched into the rock could be proof that Neanderthals were more intelligent and creative than previously thought. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Stuart Finlayson via Journal)

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Neanderthal rock art: primitive or genius?

R. Emmett Tyrrell -

September 4, 2014 6:26 pm

The Star Spangled Banner Flag that inspired the lyrics of the national anthem when it flew above Fort McHenry in the 1814 Battle of Baltimore. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

At auction: Rare letter setting stage for ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

Paul Bedard -

September 4, 2014 5:38 pm

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Tag: History

October 2014 out of control? Consider October 1944

Hillary Gets Tocqueville Wrong By 100 Years

‘A’ is for agitation: What’s really going on in Jefferson County schools

To defeat the Islamic State Obama needs Clausewitz, not Alinsky

Immigration reformers should learn from history

Obama, FDR a study of contrasts on the edge of war

Large government out of place in a society based on small technology

How the GOP got this way

Neanderthal rock art: primitive or genius?

At auction: Rare letter setting stage for ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

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