Tag Archives: Winston Churchill

Trying to Defrock George Washington

Posted on May 19, 2022 by David E Smith

First, they came for the George Washington mural in a school in San Francisco—because our first president had been a slaveowner. Later they came for his name on the same school, and as of last count, the name survived. Then, they came for the statues of the father of our country during the summer of statue-toppling.

Now, the left wants to strip his name from his eponymous university.

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Constitution, George Washington, George Washington University, Marxist iconoclasts, Nick Nolte, Slavery, Washington Post, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, William Wilberforce, Winston Churchill | Comments Off

Winston Churchill’s Darkest Hour

Posted on February 2, 2018 by David E Smith

Last Saturday I dropped off my two oldest sons and their friend at the theatre. I planned to kill a couple of hours at the bookstore, on my laptop, at a coffee shop, whatever. When I got out of the car the balmy two-degree temperature in Pittsburgh prompted second thoughts. Instead, I strolled into the theater complex, looked around, and saw a poster for “Darkest Hour.” I vaguely knew it was a movie about Winston Churchill. I bought a ticket and went in.

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Adolph Hitler, Anthony Eden, Anthony McCarten, Clement Attlee, Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, King George VI, Neville Chamberlain, Paul Reynaud, Viscount Halifax, Winston Churchill | Comments Off

Islam—Facts or Dreams?

Posted on March 22, 2016 by David E Smith

In 1993 I was a seasoned federal prosecutor, but I only knew as much about Islam as the average American with a reasonably good education—which is to say, not much. Consequently, when I was assigned to lead the prosecution of a terrorist cell that had bombed the World Trade Center ...

Posted in Islam & Sharia | Tagged al-Azhar University in Cairo, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, ISIS, Islam, Janet Reno, Omar Abdel Rahman, Robert Jackson, Taliban, Winston Churchill | Comments Off