Bretton Woods
While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal,...
History
Pearl Harbor: Motives Behind the Betrayal
There are several interpretations of the facts surrounding Pearl Harbor. The first, as expressed by Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of the film Pearl Harbor,...
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Pearl Harbor: Scapegoating Kimmel and Short
Pearl Harbor's secrets had been successfully preserved before the fact — but what about after? People around the nation, including some vocal congressmen,...
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Free-market Thinkers
With bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty?...
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The Pilgrims Weren’t Socialists
When next you sing the Hymn of Harvest Home, think kindly of our Pilgrim Fathers, for they were not "communists with a small...
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Remembering Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine
"Holodomor" is Ukrainian for "death by hunger." During 1932 and1933, between seven and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered through a brutal campaign of...
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The Hard Truth of Hard Money
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...
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From Henry Morgenthau to Henry Paulson
The circumstances of today's $700 billion bailout are eerily similar to those of FDR's New Deal, and today's Pied Pipers are playing the...
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The Panic of ’07
As a result of comparatively limited government involvement, the Panic of 1907 ran its course quickly. Could the same happen today if free-market...
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Hazards for Habeas Corpus
Justice demands that an accused criminal be given the right of "habeas corpus," the ability to challenge the legality of his detention, but...
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Pavlov’s Dogs and American Education
For the past century, behavioral psychology and revolutionary socialism have combined to wreak educational and social havoc. ...
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Son of Liberty
Nathan Hale was full of fun and life, but he is remembered for his death. He was a man of honor who died...
Read moreKAL Flight 007 Remembered
It has been 25 years since Korean Airlines Flight 007, carrying 269 passengers and crew, including Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia, was fired...
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Nazi Counterfeiters
Imagine a situation in which billions of expertly counterfeited dollars have suddenly flooded our streets and rooftops — literally dropped from airplanes. Some...
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The Bravest of the Brave
We are the land of the free for one reason and one reason only — because we are the home of the brave....
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