Scandinavia

Samuel Johnson, author of the first English dictionary, wrote "Claret is the drink for boys, port for men, but he who aspires to be a hero must drink Brandy." By that definition, Scandinavian glögg will make us saintly. Glögg, pronoun…

Obamanomics has now clearly failed. The reason is easy to understand. Obamanomics is just a replay of Clintonomics,with many of the same People calling the shots. Obama-Clintonomics was based on puffing up Wall Street Investment Banks every way i…

Posted by Scott at 6:08 AM On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign Speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to speak. Dougla…

WITH THE agreement at the Toronto G-20 summit of major nations to Cut public Deficits at least in half by the Year 2013, we will start hearing a lot more about a Value Added Tax . We should keep our hands on our wallets. The goal of cutting the D…

" features: don't use the word "war," don't mention Islam, and restrict descriptions of the bad guys to either Taliban or Al-Qaeda . Shortly after the election, Obama put on his long pants and fired the previous ISAF commander …

(More history from John Emerson - promoted by Paul Rosenberg ) The Democratic Party established itself in more or less its present form roughly between 1945 and 1955. The Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the sixties severely challenged the…

With Unemployment still hovering near 10 percent, the Jobs Bill being considered in the Senate failed a key vote, and Senate Democrats are paring it back to with passage. Meanwhile, BP executives met with Obama and agreed to a $20 Billion escr…

Immediately after President Barack Obama ’s Oval Office address, Sarah Palin was given the first opportunity on Fox News to respond to the President and, much like her competitors over at MSNBC, she bemoaned the lack of concrete action. But…