About: Denise Behreandt
Posts by Denise Behreandt
Global Food Prices on the Rise
The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than “mass murder,” according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a recent interview with an Austrian newspaper,...
America’s North Star
Georg Steller thought he was seeing a mirage. After weeks at sea on the frigid, storm-tossed waters of the north Pacific, Steller, along with his 70-odd shipmates on the...
Express Route to Poverty
For a variety of reasons, the United States is getting creamed in world trade. In trade with China alone, America’s trade deficit jumped from $6 million in 1985 to...
The Specter of Inflation
At a conference on April 16, Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, warned that the U.S. economy could be facing trouble...
Taking The High Road
Seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, following established Indian and buffalo trails, crossed the Rio Grande northward from Mexico, effectively blazing the Camino Real, the King’s Highway. Later known as Old San...
Tyranny and Posse Comitatus
General Robert E. Lee knew the South had lost the war. He was also vividly aware that many, perhaps even most, of his troops were willing to continue the...
The Emerging Police State
Attorney General John Ashcroft’s recent rebuke of the Bush administration’s civil libertarian critics is setting off alarms all across the political spectrum. Ashcroft, speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Criminalizing Dissent
Project Megiddo, the FBI's "strategic assessment" of potential millennium-related domestic terrorism, represents a significant victory in the radical left's "long march through the institutions" of U.S. law enforcement. The...
The Other Holocaust
History’s most influential organ of “holocaust denial” was not some obscure neo-Nazi periodical, but rather the old gray lady of the media cartel — the New York Times. Unlike...
The FBI’s Pipe-bomb Provocateurs
As he signed the anti-terrorism bill into law on April 24th, President Clinton insisted that "we have to take additional steps. I believe we must do more to help...