The Spanish Reconquista In AD 732, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, Charlemagne’s Grandfather, the Frankish warlord, Charles Martel, stopped the northwestern advance of Islam in the French countryside at a battle fought near the small city of Poitiers. In so doing, historians believe that he saved Western Christendom. Had [...]

On May 29, 1453, Constantinople, the last great city of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the armies of Turkish Sultan, Mehmet II.  A description of that day survives—a diary of a Venetian ship’s doctor, Nicolo Barbaro. He describes the last day of Byzantine Emperor, Constantine XI, who fought beside [...]

Acting head of the IRS, Steven Moore, prevaricating before Congress The Distrust/Disgust Factor: In his magisterial Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon records that by 476 AD, the Romans of the West had lost all of their European empire because they had lost their “civic [...]

What Difference Does it Make? Perhaps Hillary Clinton’s now famous outburst, made during her testimony before congress, will do more to end her political career than all her lies and blunders as our Secretary of State combined. One can only hope. Among her serial lies, she asserted that she was [...]