History

Framer of the Framers

John Witherspoon was not only a Founding Father, but in his roles as preacher and professor he taught and influenced many of the...

January 8, 2009

Valkyrie: The Real Col. von Stauffenberg

Gary Benoit January 4, 2009

On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair" carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot,...

Birch Society’s Robert Welch Was Correct on Castro

Gary Benoit December 31, 2008

Both before and after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba on January 1, 1959, the major media in America portrayed him as...

Socialism’s Broken Promises

Steven J. DuBord December 25, 2008

Even in the United States, the Utopian economic and political system known as socialism remains attractive to those who are not familiar with...

A Christmas to Remember

Dennis Behreandt December 23, 2008

Christmas morning dawned gloomy and cold over the rebel camp. The low, overcast sky promised drizzle, or worse, by afternoon. The temperature, hovering...

Bretton Woods

Steven J. DuBord December 10, 2008

While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal,...

Pearl Harbor: Motives Behind the Betrayal

James Perloff December 4, 2008

There are several interpretations of the facts surrounding Pearl Harbor. The first, as expressed by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the film Pearl Harbor,...

Pearl Harbor: Scapegoating Kimmel and Short

James Perloff December 4, 2008

Pearl Harbor's secrets had been successfully preserved before the fact — but what about after? People around the nation, including some vocal congressmen,...

Free-market Thinkers

Steven J. DuBord November 30, 2008

With bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty?...

The Pilgrims Weren’t Socialists

Denise Behreandt November 26, 2008

When next you sing the Hymn of Harvest Home, think kindly of our Pilgrim Fathers, for they were not "communists with a small...

Remembering Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine

William F. Jasper November 21, 2008

"Holodomor" is Ukrainian for "death by hunger." During 1932 and1933, between seven and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered through a brutal campaign of...

The Hard Truth of Hard Money

Steven J. DuBord November 13, 2008

In our Republic's youth, presidential candidates openly debated central banking, and Andrew Jackson even won election as a "hard-money" advocate. Today's economic crisis...