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 [...]
I’ve written a number of pieces on the Benghazi attack and hope that the readers of this column will understand both its meaning in the context of the overall war on terror and that it still has Watergate-like “legs” for this president. Dana Rohrabacher, Republican Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee is still pursuing [...]
Early in her first term as Prime Minister, the Soviets moved short range nuclear missiles into Eastern Europe where they were positioned to erase London and various European capitals in a flight time of mere minutes. During this intense stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West, and despite massive protests by capitulationist leftists inside [...]
Korean Missile Threat is real and eminent. (An excerpt)… In the First Punic War, during the late 240s BC, the Carthaginians grew weary of the long war with Rome and made the decision to decommission much of their fleet and to release from their employ many of their mercenary sailors. This proved to [...]
