Author: mtc9393

On Tuesday I made reference to  the article that spoke of a speech given by Sir Halford Mackinder in January 1904. In his talk, “Mackinder argued that the future of global power lay not, as most British then imagined, in controlling the global sea lanes, but in controlling a vast land mass he called “Euro-Asia.””  It is…

I must admit I should have had a premonition that this was coming.  A source of mine over at the Island of Nantucket told me about a month or so ago he heard Secretary of State John Kerry singing that old song that begins with the words: “Days are long since you went away, I…

Three days after April Fool’s Day in 1967 Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in New York City. His speech was titled: “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence.”   At that time about 15, 000 American had died in Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson was president at the time. He would remain in…

If there was any question that the news media is a lap-dog of the local FBI just look at this quote from the first line in a front page newspaper article last Friday: “The recent discovery of old surveillance footage that energized the investigation into the 1990 Gardner Museum heist . . . “ The…

I wrote how the FBI announced it had recovered a Stradivarius violin and that it told how it was praised by the Justice Department for its “outstanding work” when all its agents did was take custody of it from a violin appraiser who recognized it as having been stolen.  I’ve mentioned this many times before…

There is something about the people who proclaim that they are socialists that is woven into their fiber. They want to be on top while others do the dirty work underneath. Reading about W.E.B DuBois during his early years writing for the NAACP publication The Crisis he noted something to the effect that the communist…