“What If?” histories are a good read. They are entertaining, and they provoke thought and encourage the imagination. How different the world would be if different judgments, decisions, and circumstances had prevailed at history’s turning points. Certainly English history would have been different if King Harold’s soldiers had obeyed his order not to pursue the defeated fleeing Normans down the hill. This broke the impenetrable...

Elizabeth Warren is the person Obama could not get confirmed to the consumer advocate position. She dropped out of contention and ran for the Senate and won. This shows the great gulf between Washington and the American people. Essentially, Washington is a foreign power colonizing the American people. In this video of a Banking Committee hearing of the US Senate, Senator Warren makes the point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlWiTPn7pQ&feature=youtu.be During the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, I suggested that by softening a couple of hardened libertarian positions, Ron Paul could win the nomination. My advice was not taken, but even had it been, this video shows that no matter how many votes Ron Paul received, the Republican Party had no intention of giving him the nomination. The presstitute media would not even...

Americans have been shamed many times by their elected representatives who cravenly bow to vested interests and betray the American people. But no previous disgraceful behavior can match the public shame brought to Americans by the behavior of the Senate Republicans in the confirmation hearing of Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Forty Senate Republicans made it clear that not only do they refuse...

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My experience with the American left and right leads to the conclusion that the left sees private power as the source of oppression and government as the countervailing and rectifying power, while the right sees government as the source of oppression and a free and unregulated private sector as the countervailing and rectifying power. Both are concerned with restraining the power to oppress, but they...

Biggest Bubbles in History-Stocks, Bonds, Dollar-Paul Craig Roberts 11 FEBRUARY 2013 48 COMMENTS By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says, “I think we have three of the biggest bubbles in history. The bond market, stock market and the U.S. dollar . . . and something is going to go.” Roberts thinks, “This is possibly one of the riskiest years...

Prosecutors always expand laws far beyond their intent. Attorneys in civil cases do the same. For example, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was passed in order to make it easier for the government to convict members of the Mafia. However, the law, despite its intent, was quickly expanded by prosecutors and attorneys and used in cases against pro-life activists, Catholic bishops, corporations...

Just as Washington has involved NATO in its Afghanistan, Middle East and African wars, John V. Walsh explains Washington’s attempt to rope Japan into its military encirclement of China. Perhaps the Japanese will see in Washington’s effort to contain the rise of China the same policy that Washington used against Japan in the 1930s. Will Japan align with the rising power, the declining power, or...