AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker) - Hollow Resolve
Photo Credit:Military History, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Britain’s armed forces and the mirror of national collapse.
NPR (Rachel Treisman) - Why the French Open is named after Roland Garros, who didn't play tennis
Roland Garros, a WWI-era pilot, is credited with revolutionizing aerial combat. The major Paris tennis tournament was named after him in 1928, a decade after his death in combat.
NYTIMES (Christine Hauser) - Shipwreck Reveals Fate of Vanished World War I Coast Guard Cutter
The Tampa disappeared in 1918 with 131 British and American personnel and civilians aboard. It was the largest single American naval combat loss of life in World War I
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Taki) - Taki’s Worst President
Meet the man who destroyed Europe. The post Taki’s Worst President appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Taki’s Worst President Meet the man who destroyed Europe. TakiMag During a very gay—in the old-fashioned meaning of the word—and drunken evening in Gstaad very long ago, William F. Buckley asked me whom I considered the worst American president. Bill had a habit of turning dinner conversations into debates, and we all were grateful for this habit of his, since apres-ski dinners more often than not involved pretty young things that were known to confuse Rambo with Rimbaud. I did not have to think long. By far Woodrow Wilson, I exclaimed, and Bill raised that eyebrow of his and almost burst out laughing. “Do…Open