On August 11, 106 AD, the Roman legions under the Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD), conquered the Kingdom of Dacia, located on the eastern side of the Danube in what is today, Romania. The Romans besieged the capital and destroyed it. The Dacian king, Decebalus, and a few of his loyalists fled into the mountains where [...]
In my book, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations, I write: By 1500, the Sunni branch of Islam, administered by the Ottomans, ruled lands from Syria and Iraq, across the Maghreb to the Atlantic. And on the European mainland, it ruled all of Greece and the Balkans. By 1529, the Ottomans began their first siege of the [...]
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 Martel lost at Poitiers, Edward [...]
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 his Greek-speaking Roman soldiers on [...]
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 virtue.” By this he meant [...]
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 unaware that requests for greater [...]
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Where did Syria Get Its Chemical Weapons? In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I write: …In 2003, Stephen, a British spy and self-styled “Lawrence of Arabia,” was on the ground inside Iraq weeks prior to the US-led invasion and saw the evacuation of WMD stockpiles and production equipment. Stephen observed the operation being conducted [...]
Good News from Israel; Due to the firestorm of coverage surrounding the massive governmental screw-up that enabled the Boston jihadi attack, there was almost no coverage Hagel’s first trip to Israel. Jewish and Israel News (JNS.org) reported Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced a massive new arms deal with Israel. Hagel made a number of [...]
On April 18, Joe Kovacs reported for World Net Daily, “… the Saudi national who was the original “person of interest”( identified as 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi) in connection with Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing is going to be deported from the U.S. next week… …on national security grounds. Reuters reported President Barack Obama met [...]
