I posted this fascinating article on our Twitter feed yesterday but had to post it here for all of you to read.
Titled, "How Self-Loathing Became the West’s Nazi Inheritance," it explains how Kaiser Wilhelm's plans to use Muslims to commit jihad to defeat the British during World War I became the seeds of the terrible [...]

I hate flying but I greatly respect it, even more so after 9-11.
My last flight was from Washington D.C. to Akron-Canton Airport here in Ohio two years ago. After sitting roughly two hours on the tarmac at Dulles waiting for our plane's turn to take off in the back-up the flight itself was uneventful [...]

Since Obama seems to be mirroring Hugo Chavez in everything else, I'm wondering which American "hero" he'll decide to have dug up:
CARACAS – Venezuela exhumed the remains of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar on Friday and will test them to see if he was poisoned by enemies in Colombia.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejects the [...]

Hello, Babalu community. It is my great honor to have been invited by George to be contributor to Babalu Blog. For me this pretty much equates to when I was a kid and I cut my finger along with my friends to become blood brothers and sisters. I thank George and all the Babalu family [...]

Today is the National Day of Prayer.
If some groups in our country had their way, today would be the last Day of Prayer celebrated nationally. I don't know what their beliefs are (or if they even have any, outside of not believing that there is a God).
But I do know this: There [...]

This coming Sunday, HBO will present The Pacific, the long-awaited companion piece to, what I believe is the finest portrayal of World War II in any medium, Band of Brothers. It is unfortunate that even before one minute is aired, controversy has erupted because of a statement Tom Hanks made to historian Douglas Brinkley in [...]

Some thoughts on Obama's Nobel prize from friend Alexander Maistrovoy, a journalist with the Russian-language Israeli newspaper Novosty nedely.
Long live Obama and go strong, America.
Want to crush your enemies? Wish their leaders … Nobel Prizes
I do not envy the country, whose leader becomes a Nobel Laureate. The majority of such leaders brought their peoples [...]

In case you've forgotten, or are too young to remember, Armando Socarras had his 15 minutes of fame back in the 1970's 1969 when he hitched a ride to freedom in the wheel well of an Iberia DC 8 heading to Madrid from Havana.  It's an incredible story; recounted for us by Jose Reyes in this [...]

This stunning post from Capital Hill Cubans serves as a reminder to those celebrating this weeks OAS decision on Cuba:
"Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she [...]

Courtesy of American Rhetoric, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, here is Ronald Reagan's speech commemorating D-Day, "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc," forty years on.

We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been [...]

Courtesy of National Review Online:
The Allies had been gathering in lower England for many months, setting for the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of the world and warfare. It was June 5, 1944. The invasion of the French coast at Normandy had already been delayed once when General Eisenhower gave the green light for [...]

Update: ...they sacrificed their tomorrows for us.

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In a New York Times blog article talking about the first 100-days of this and previous presidents, the author includes this interesting conversation between the great general and former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a shell shocked John F. Kennedy right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was botched by his own administration. The [...]

The left in this country is frothing at the mouth over the comments made by Rush Limbaugh that he would like to see the leftist policies being pursued by our president to fail. Of course, the left has immediately jumped on this claiming that what Limbaugh wanted was for Obama to fail and by extension, [...]

Myriam Marquez hits another one out of the park with this column.
A historical snippet from a Cuban government website on anti-communist guajiros, God-loving country folks fighting Fidel Castro's men in the Escambray mountains:
March 28, 1964 -- Thanks to [the] effective work of Cuban State Security Agent Alberto Delgado, bandits Julio Emilio Carretero and Zoila [...]

An important reminder from Jack Dunphy writing for Patterico:

"As the debate continues over the political and economic courses America will follow, take a few minutes to be reminded of how our country has endured. Meet some of the men whose sacrifices have given us the freedom to have the debate at all."

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Greetings infidels,  a fantastic read today by Steven Hayward in the WSJ on the comparisons between Obama and Reagan on the differences of how they got their respective economic plans through Congress in their first 200 days.
This quote is quite telling:
One of the main themes that emerges from the IAP [Initial Actions Project] report is [...]

I spent both Saturday and Sunday at the Cuban Memorial helping Maria Werlau of the Cuba Archive. Together and along with a couple other volunteers including Jorge from The Real Cuba, we took testimonials from folks who had family or friends die as a result of the castro regime. It would be impossible to [...]

My parents, like many parents here in the Cuban diaspora, worked and worked and worked from when they first arrived to one day be able to buy their own home.  Back then, in the early seventies, homes in Miami were generally small and had few, if any, modifications. Most were two or three bedroom, one [...]

On this day 62 years ago, Imperial Japan suffered the first of what were to be two atomic bombs dropped on its cities: Hiroshima, the first city ever attacked with a nuclear weapon, and three days later, Nagasaki. Many feel that what we did was contrary to the American spirit and that it was barbarous [...]