James Watt is dead. Finally. Of all the Reagan appointees, Watt has a serious claim to be the worst. And that's a high bar! Born in Lusk, Wyoming in 1938, Watt graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1960 and then from Wyoming’s law school...
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Pat Robertson is dead, mourned by no one who can be considered a decent American. Born in 1930, Marion (Pat) Robertson spent well over a half-century pushing a witch doctor.
Born in Yangzhou in 1926, Jiang was one of the last Chinese leaders to remember the 1949 Revolution. His father died fighting the Japanese while Jiang himself was attending National.
Here’s the simplest way to describe Ken Starr. When it fit his interests to talk about “morality,” he did so. When it fit his interests to defend the greatest moral reprobates in this country, he did so. That it was always Democrats whom Starr found...
Despite what Americans want to believe about the man whom they credit with doing much to end the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev is probably best described as the greatest failure.
Luis Echeverría Alvarez has died at the age of 100. You’d think that this former president of Mexico lived a good century. But you’d be wrong. If you want to.
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, presents Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Nov. 16,...
Let’s be very clear up front here. Bob Dole was not a nice man. He was never a nice man. Just because he was the last World War II veteran.
Colin Powell has died of COVID-19. One of the most unjustly lauded individuals in early twenty-first century America, an honest portrayal of Powell’s legacy turns out starkly negative. From his.
Last week, we had a very unfortunate comment thread when I mentioned that one of the bombers portrayed in The Battle of Algiers still lives. Too many commenters basically preferred colonialism to the use of violence to evict colonial occupiers from their land. This is...
Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka's career. He will be remembered.
Today, we have one known known: Donald Rumsfeld is dead. Rumsfeld's upbringing isn’t really very interesting; upper-middle class German-American family from Illinois, Boy Scouts, Princeton, ROTC, marriage at 22, kids,.