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In early January 1964, barely six weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, US President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech to the American people in which he declared an “unconditional war.” But he didn’t declare war on Vietnam. Or Cuba. Or the Soviet Union. Johnson declared war on poverty. And in his
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Cities in India Will Lockdown Over Air Pollution The Supreme Court of India has ordered India’s capital, New Delhi, and the surrounding regions to
By the turn of the century in the year 1600, the City of London was booming. It was the Age of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon (the father of the scientific method). And London’s population had doubled in the previous 25 years. London’s fast growth, however, was totally unplanned. And many neighborhoods had become
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. MSNBC Calls Black Lt. Gov a White Supremacist The outgoing governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was pictured in his college yearbook dressed in black
In the year 552 BC in the province of Persis in modern day Iran, a local sheepherder started a revolt against his ruler, King Astyages of the Median Empire. The sheepherder’s name was Cyrus, though he would become known to history as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus led the rebellion against Astyages for three
More than four thousand years ago around 2112 BC, King Ur-Nammu of ancient Sumeria gathered his scribes together to dictate a series of royal decrees, all of which were chiseled onto cuneiform tablets. A handful of these tablets were discovered and translated in the 20th century, making the Code of Ur-Nammu the oldest
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Woke 401(k) rule quietly moves forward Almost exactly one year ago, the US Department of Labor issued a regulation requiring that employers and their
How many times now have the ‘experts’ been desperately, woefully wrong about elections over the past several years? They were wrong about Brexit. They were wrong about the 2016 US Presidential election. And they were hilariously, historically wrong about the 2020 election. In fact, according to a report from the American Association of
It was late spring of 1348 when a small ship departed from the port of Gascony in Southwestern France, destined for Dorset County on the English Channel. The ship was carrying basic provisions and goods for trade. But unknown to the sailors, dockworkers, and the locals in Dorset County, the ship was infested
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. A School Tied a Mask Onto A Disabled Girl’s Face A Florida father, Jeffrey Steele, was surprised one day when his young daughter Sophia
Higher taxes are coming to America — and if you’re a high income earner, you’ve now got a target on your back. Below, we unpack two of the proposed tax increases that could likely affect you — being individual income tax increases, and capital gains tax changes. CAVEAT: The below information is not
Louis XV was only five years old when his great grandfather, the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV passed away. The year was 1715, and France was nearly in financial ruin. Louis XIV had spent the previous seven decades spending lavishly on everything from palaces to public hospitals. All of that spending had turned France
I arrived home late last night back to Puerto Rico after a wonderful, 2-day event with our Total Access members this weekend. Luminaries like Ron Paul and Robert Kiyosaki joined me on stage, and as you can imagine, we spent a lot of time talking about the trends in western civilization– inflation, social
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Katie Couric “Protected” Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Burying Part of an Interview In her new memoir, Going There, Katie Couric recalls how she edited
By the late the fifth century BC, after decades of war with its chief rival Sparta, the ancient Greek city-state of Athens was desperate for peace. They wanted a decisive victory to end the war once and for all. So the citizens gathered together in their public assembly– essentially a democratic mob of
