Life & Death of a Russian Freedom Fighter
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 20th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Life & Death of a Russian Freedom Fighter
Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics
Valeria Novodvorskaya, the firebrand Russian activist and writer who died in Moscow on July 12 at the age of 64, was practically unknown abroad and had a somewhat scandalous notoriety at home. Enemies derided her, often in crudely misogynist terms, as a demented Russia-hating hag; even many allies viewed her as something of an embarrassment, a ridiculous old woman prone to saying things that made the already marginalized liberal opposition look crazy. In death, she was quickly and almost literally canonized by the same opposition. Many said that they were only now beginning to understand what…
United 232 and the Miracle in a Cornfield
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Twenty-five years ago today, a traveling Chicago-based corporate accountant named Joseph Trombello finished up the audit he was doing of a hotel property in Grand Junction, Colo., ate dinner, called his wife, and went to sleep. The next day, he was scheduled to fly back, via Denver’s Stapleton International Airport, to O’Hare, and his home 15 minutes from the airport in Vernon Hills, Ill. After a mechanical delay in Grand Junction and a bumpy ride on the propeller plane to Denver, Trombello learned he had a two-hour delay at Stapleton. His company flew him first class, but it was…
