A cartoon recently came across my desk in which it was intimated that the United States Congress and the White House are completely clueless with regard to events in our economy. That between them they cannot discern appropriate measures to remedy the downward spiral that appears to be driving us into national bankruptcy. […]
About 50 years ago we began hearing how the so-called “American Civil War” was all about freeing the slaves. How the North’s pure motives were vindicated by ultimate success and therefore how evil and wrong the South must have been. More recently that mantra has become so pervasive as to be laughable; provided you […]
We have entered into an historic period that cycles through the decades only once every fifty years and we are witness to the anniversary of its third cycle. How times have changed since 1911 and 1961. Though systems have supposedly advanced and improved, I contend that we, mere man, are still contending […]
It has been nearly 15 decades since the carnival of blood, euphemistically called the American “Civil War” came to a close. Incredibly expensive, yet it enabled Northern politicians, industrialists, merchants, bankers and their International Banking handlers to amass immense wealth. They were living the dream of Hamilton’s, Clay’s and the 16th President’s American System; […]
by: Rex Miller, a short essay as appeared in a local quarterly publication. . As the year 2011 approached it became apparent that the observation of the carnival of blood euphemistically called the “Civil War” was about to be hawked upon an unsuspecting public for all the wrong reasons. Not that those who […]
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