Outrage of the Year:A Statue to Stalin in Virginia?

Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com

Of course,it’s customary at year’s end to share our favorite news items from the year past. As someone who teaches and writes about history,I tend to focus on historical things I fear are lost to American education.

So,my enduring “news item” of 2010 falls under the category [...]

Christmas at Katyn

Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com

The people of Poland got an early Christmas present this year. It’s bittersweet but long awaited,and indeed a gift of sorts—and from an unlikely source:Russia. In Moscow,the State Duma,Russia’s legislature,passed a statement conceding Soviet responsibility for the Katyn Woods massacre,one of the [...]

The Left,Duped by North Korea

Dr. Paul Kengor,FloydReports.com

North Korea is not an easy issue. I’ve dealt with it since the early 1990s,beginning at the Center for Strategic &International Studies. I had few answers then,and I still have few today.

It also is not a partisan issue. For over 60 years,Democrat and Republican presidents [...]

Honduras rulers reject Obama pressure to restore dictator

Reuters

Obama supports Chavez ousted communist pal

The Honduran interim government defied international pressure on Wednesday and vowed there was “no chance at all”of ousted President Manuel Zelaya returning to office.

World leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have told the new rulers of [...]