President Obama's Presidential Medal of Freedom for Jan Karski shows how far Poles went to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. After escaping Soviet imprisonment and being savagely tortured by the Gestapo, Karski still risked his life to sneak past German guards into the Jewish ghetto to see how the Nazis...
(0) Comments | Posted December 7, 2010 | 11:31 AM
Journalists, writers and artists are insecure and needy people. Elaine Kaufman filled their needs. She fed them, gave them a shoulder to cry on, and then a kick in the butt to motivate them. She was not the prettiest woman in the world, or even the best cook. And she...
(15) Comments | Posted November 29, 2010 | 1:30 PM
The Wall Street Journal gets it: Auschwitz was not a Polish concentration camp. The paper has officially changed its style guide to make sure that reporters refer to it as a German camp. It's time for the rest of the American media to do the same.
Style & Substance...
(39) Comments | Posted October 24, 2010 | 10:10 PM
The New York-born Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, says, "Accusing Poles of participation in the Holocaust is a sin." Yet on a regular basis, American journalists do just that by calling Auschwitz a "Polish concentration camp." This is Holocaust revisionism.
The Nazi concentration camps were built by Germans,...
(1) Comments | Posted September 1, 2010 | 4:30 PM
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a struggle between capitalism and communism, ready to annihilate each other with nuclear weapons. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union imposed its will on Eastern Europe, and in the 50s, 60s and...
(21) Comments | Posted April 7, 2010 | 5:36 PM
While American newspaper columnists and cable TV talking heads will spend the next few days talking about President Obama's nuclear arms reduction treaty with Moscow, in Poland, media pundits are focused on Russian Premier Vladimir Putin's visit to the Katyn Forest, where 70 years ago, the Soviet Union's secret police...
(40) Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 7:43 PM
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians began taking down their statues of Josef Stalin, the mass murderer who killed millions of people. Astonishingly, in America, the National D-Day Memorial is honoring Stalin by placing his bust on a pedestal at its museum in Bedford, Virginia.
This misguided...
(16) Comments | Posted August 31, 2009 | 11:11 AM
On Sept. 1, 1939, Poland was attacked by Nazi Germany. Now, 70 years later, a Swedish heavy metal band is swooping down on Poland lauding the Poles for their valiant effort against the German blitzkrieg that started World War II and captured all of Europe.
The German "lightning war" from...
(5) Comments | Posted July 1, 2009 | 9:27 PM
On the first anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Army regiment stationed at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York was drunk with freedom, swilling rum and celebrating their liberty. Little did they realize, that the British Army that had marched down from Canada was slowly...
(19) Comments | Posted May 18, 2009 | 11:17 AM

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