Howard Zinn’s Long Overdue Death

    While we were all caught up in the furor of Obama’s tragicomic State of the Union address, or STFU address as some have called it, Howard Zinn, fabulist, historical vandal, and America basher used the opportunity to die unnoticed. For those who don’t know of him, Zinn has probably done more damage to the ancient academic discipline of history than any other person or group | Read More »

    A challenge to General Shinseki

    I wrote earlier on the nomination of retired General Eric shinseki to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, however in today’s Washington Post, former Defense Department spokesperson Lawrence Di Rita does the best job I’ve seen thus far of deflating the Shinseki mythos. Like so much else we’ve seen with this Administration in the area of communications, this comes about 6 years too late to be | Read More »