A recent issue of World Affairs Journal explains to readers who philosopher and political activist Alexander Dugin is. (Alexander Dugin) is the intellectual who has Vladimir Putin’s back in the emerging ideological conflict between Russia and the West. At home, Putin uses him to create a nationalist [RCY: much like Marine Le Pen in France here […]
The Worst President in American History, Part IV
In Wilson’s War, historian Jim Powell recounts: By the end of 1917, Western Europe had been embroiled in war for three years, but it was deadlocked. The United States was still on the sidelines. All (Allied Powers) had suffered horrendous losses. Neither side was able to achieve decisive victory and dictate surrender terms to the […]
The Real Tea Party
The original Sons of Liberty was a secret society created by the American colonists to protect their rights and to fight taxation by the British government. The Sons of Liberty are best known for the Boston Tea Party raid in 1773 in reaction to new taxes. Notable members included Sam Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, […]
Rand Paul #1, Part II
In Taking a Stand, Rand writes on foreign policy realism. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, and Reagan all occupied the space in between the extremes of foreign policy. Their foreign policies took into account the world as it was and reacted to it by making us stronger and self-reliant. Their foreign policy realism rejects the Wilsonian […]
The Worst President in American History, Part III
In Wilson’s War—How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led To Hitler, Lenin, Stalin & World War II, historian Jim Powell explains how WWI was stalemated for three years. From the war’s outset, it appeared unlikely that one side would be able to dominate the other. —The Germans had better generals-less inclined to squander the lives of […]
The Sunni-Shia Sectarian War
Originally posted February 23, 2015. Ex-head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, offers some Sunni-Shia perspective: The stage is thus set for a regional sectarian war, which after nearly twenty years of U.S. and Western Islamist-motivating intervention accompanied by military, diplomatic, and political incompetence, may be the best near-term means for improving U.S. and […]
Rand Paul #1
In his new book Taking a Stand, the Senator heads a chapter “A New Kind of Republican.” Thanks to the misguided leadership of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, George W.Bush and John Boehner for starters, the Republican brand of Reagan, Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush has been distorted beyond recognition. Groups like […]
Rand Paul Blocks a Patriot Act Extension
Senator and presidential candidate, Rand Paul almost single-handedly stopped the NSA bulk collection of telephone metadata this weekend. The BBC reports: The NSA, which runs the majority of surveillance programmes, stopped collecting the affected data at 19:59 GMT on Sunday. The failure to reach any agreement in the rare Sunday sitting of the Senate was […]
The Worst President in American History, Part II
In Wilson’s War, Jim Powell writes: The consequences of Wilson’s fateful decision to enter World War I played out long after he died in 1924, because of Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin. Those ruthless killers would not have come to power as they did if the United States had stayed out of the war. Their crimes […]
Your Guns and Your Car
Debbie and I put in over 4,000 miles a year traveling by car from our official residence in Key West, 90 miles from Cuba, to our summer home Newport, RI. We never hit the road without a full compliment of firepower. First, I do not want to leave behind a stash of guns that could […]
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