Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—one of the most stunning American military catastrophes in this country’s history and a moment that signaled a new era for the republic. The casualties were stunning—2,042 Americans were killed and 1,247 wounded, and most of the Pacific Fleet has taken heavy damage—and the nation was in a state of shock.
Author: Jarrett Stepman
Review—Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan
No historian has done a better job of chronicling Ronald Reagan’s rise to power than Craig Shirley. As always, Shirley is a perfect antidote to the “court historians” who never really “got” Reagan. Shirley’s books on Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns, Reagan’s Revolution and Rendezvous With Destiny, are the gold standard in describing the Gipper’s ascendence and successful capture of the White House.
Historian Craig Shirley — Huffington Post Gets it Wrong on Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Presidential Campaign
On Sunday, the Huffington Post ran an Op-Ed attacking presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for claiming that Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election mostly on his conservative principles.
The Left Purges Woodrow Wilson, But Not His Progressivism
The American Left has finally caught on that one of the leading lights of the early Progressive movement was a racist, segregationist, and generally unseemly fellow. Princeton’s Black Justice League protestors have urged that early-twentieth century President Woodrow Wilson’s “racist legacy” be acknowledged, and any mention of his existence purged from campus.
College Leftists Eat Their Own: Student Activists Demand ‘Racist’ Woodrow Wilson’s Name be Stripped from Princeton
In the vast effort to purge American history of anything out of step with the milieu of modern progressivism, college leftists have turned their wrath on one of the fathers of their movement: Woodrow Wilson.
Veterans Day: The American Devotion to Military Service
It is a long-term and striking characteristic of the American people to show particular devotion to their soldiers. The famed French observer of American life, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood in the 1830’s how the people of a participatory republic like the United States would be both fierce in war and show an uncommon devotion to those who had served in the military.
SiriusXM Breitbart News Daily: Carly Fiorina, Sen. Rand Paul, Mark Levin
On the November 9, Breitbart News Daily show on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM EST, host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will host and interview a number of guests. The program is the first live, conservative radio enterprise to air seven days a week. Sirius XM Vice President for news and talk Dave Gorab called the show “the conservative news show of record.”
‘Breitbart News Sunday’ on SXM 125: Dr. Ben Carson; Cartel Wars; Europe Under Seige
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will discuss the most important news of the week. He will be talking to a GOP candidate in the 2016 presidential race, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony at the Benghazi hearing, immigration, and much more.
Bill O’Reilly on ‘Killing Reagan’: I Didn’t Understand Ronald Reagan’s ‘Nobility’
In an interview with Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, Fox News host and bestselling author Bill O’Reilly discussed his new book, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed the Presidency. The book focuses on the failed murder attempt by John Hinckley, Jr. on President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in order to impress actress Jodie Foster.