Filed under: History, Europe, Latvia A lot has changed since the Cold War ended. If this is news to you, please stop reading immediately. You don't want to drink water from a fire hose. But, if you are in fact aware that the Berlin Wall fell (and that David Hasselhoff provided the soundtrack, to the...

There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

AIG may be the most unpopular bailout ever. With Wall Street. With Main Street. With the people. Probably even with the President. Yet it is absolutely essential. Here is why. AIG created a ton of what I call Confederate Money. They insured crap that was then called gold. When the gold turned back i...

Family Holidays 1 Swap Corfu for ... Korcula A long-time family favourite, Corfu offers an ideal mix of bustling resorts, long sandy beaches and stunning Venetian architecture in Corfu town. The Croatian island of Korcula, however, can match it on almost every front - wooded hills, unspoilt beaches ...

Boy, this has to really be pissing off The Bush Grindhouse . A country, seeking another country to come in, invade and occupy them. What daydreams must be floating in the Office of the Vice President . You wouldn't have to falsify intelligence ... You wouldn't have to create lies ... Hell, you would...

Meet Ohio's Sally Kern...GOP Representative Jeff Wagner: "As much as some people would have us to believe otherwise, this country was founded on Christian principles. One of those long honored principles is the tradition of holy matrimony. One man and one woman joined together in a union that goes a...

How Terry Wogan sees Europe So, yet another Eurovision Song Contest, and get another round of chest-beating and sour grapes from people who think that the reason the UK came last was because of a Europe-wide conspiracy against us and in favour of any of those commies to the east. Every year the prot...

It was a pretty bad Condiweek! She went all the way to the Middle East and accomplished little more than photo-ops with the morbidly obese; she bickered with kindly old man Jimmy Carter; and then she came home and participated in one of the most gruesomely cynical Bush Administration publicity stunt...

The killing of Jews from Liepaja, Latvia, has been documented in numerous sources. SS and Police Chief Emil Dietrich recorded most of them in his diary (see footnote 40 here). Dietrich was hanged by a US military tribunal at Landsberg-am-Lech prison on 22 Oct 1948. Between the 15th and 17th of Decem...

It's still my father's Europe. Via IHT: About 3,000 Latvians marched through the capital Sunday under heavy police protection to honor countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II. The procession, included a few surviving members of the WaffenSS unit known as the Latvian Legion,...