Growing up in America in the seventies and eighties, I really had no concept of geography or international relations. My public and private school educations managed to avoid the whole concept of the world outside of the United States, with the exception of England and the Soviet Union. I was aware that France and Canada […]

In the interest of full disclosure, let me say right up front that this column has absolutely nothing to do with the plight of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer. Well…………….maybe a bit…………………
Marketing and Advertising organizations have long been the best at finding out which one(s) of our psychological “buttons” to push. In fact, they are […]

A brief historical overview of changing banking practices abetted by the Fed’s inflationary expansion of the currency.
The main effect of the Fed’s current moves is to bail out the financial institutions. That’s what opponents of creating the Fed feared in 1913.
The Fed’s acting as lender of last resort to tide banks over periodic panics was, […]

The politicians and candidates running for president of the United States are running not to serve the American public, but to dictate to American citizens what they will do, what the country must do as a whole. Be they Democrats or Republicans, their attitude is, “We know what’s best for you.”
This would explain Hillary Clinton’s insatiable […]

Lord only knows how David Eigen, author of something called Men: The Gods of Love, was invited to appear split-screened with Anderson Cooper Monday night, but he was, and proceeded to explain, in world record time, how he thought Eliot Spitzer’s tendency toward whoring was a function of his being an emotionally overwrought, thoroughly modern […]

As a task force of US battleships steamed towards the Middle East in the spring of 2001 on a mission to patrol the Persian Gulf, a sailor aboard one of those vessels was pursuing an entirely different mission. 
His name was Hassan Abu-Jihaad, and he was serving as a signalman aboard the USS Benfold. Little did […]

Jennifer Harper, Washington Times reporter, gives us a revealing look at how far left our taxpayer funded National Public Radio network has gotten itself these days. Even when they try to go a little toward the conservative side of the debate, they get lambasted by their audience, angered that they had the temerity to air […]