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Cold War 2.0, part I In last month’s Anti-Empire Report I brought you the latest adventure of US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki trying to defend the indefensible. She said then: “As a matter of longstanding policy, the United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means,” which prompted me to inform my readers: “If you know how to contact Ms. Psaki, tell her to have a look at my list of more than 50 governments the United States has attempted to overthrow since the end of the Second World War.” On March 13 her regular attack on all … Continue reading →

The recent questionable claims by Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly regarding his Falklands War coverage are not his most embellished accounts. O’Reilly made several exaggerations and false claims in “Killing Kennedy,” his spin on the assassination of our 35th President – and he concealed connections between LBJ and Oswald’s mysterious Dallas ‘handler”- George de Mohrenschildt. One of O’Reilly’s lies, which in the past week has been disproved by CNN, Politico, Slate and many other news organizations regarded the mysterious George de Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt, the only close friend in Dallas of alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was also connected … Continue reading →

More than 121,000 people worldwide are members of Mensa, an elite society that boasts some of the smartest brains on the planet. And you too could join this group if you can prove you’re in the top two per cent of the population in a supervised test. To find out if you’ve got what it takes, MailOnline has helped develop an exclusive Mensa test to see if you might have the level of intelligence needed to mingle smartest. The Mensa puzzles are designed to stimulate memory, concentration, agility, perception and reasoning, which all contribute to a high IQ. Intelligence Quotient, or … Continue reading →

So, Theresa Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, finally has spoken about the piece of fiction in Rolling Stone that falsely claimed a UVA freshman named “Jackie” had been brutally raped at a fraternity party in September, 2012. Yes, this is the same story that Sullivan helped to create, one she wanted to believe when it first was published last November, and a story that enabled her to impose her own hard-left agenda at her university. Sullivan is upset that the story said so many false and nasty things about UVA, false and nasty things that gave her presidency … Continue reading →

In November, Rolling Stone magazine ran a story detailing the horrific account of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity on the University of Virginia campus. The story quickly proved to be rubbish, and Rolling Stone reached out to the Columbia University School of Journalism to discover how the magazine could have blundered so badly. With much ado, Columbia responded. Its 13,000-word report identified problems in “reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking.” This was all true enough, but Columbia missed the real problem. As I document in my forthcoming book, Scarlet Letters, cases like the Rolling Stone’s have become so common because those … Continue reading →

Six years after the Global Financial Crisis, the U.S. stock market continues to soar to new heights with nary a pullback or correction. In this piece, I will explain why the stock market is experiencing a new bubble that is actually another wave of the bubble that has existed since the mid-1990s. A two-decade old bubble? Yes, you’ve read that correctly. Most people will consider this assertion preposterous, but the facts don’t lie. Though the U.S. stock market has been experiencing a bubble for two decades, it will not last forever. I believe that the ultimate popping of this bubble … Continue reading →

Confidence takes many forms, from the arrogance of Floyd Mayweather to the quiet self-assurance of Jane Goodall. True confidence—as opposed to the false confidence people project to mask their insecurities—has a look all its own. When it comes to confidence, one thing is certain: truly confident people always have the upper hand over the doubtful and the skittish, because they inspire others and they make things happen. I think Henry Ford said it best:  Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right. Ford’s notion that your mentality has a powerful effect upon your ability to succeed is … Continue reading →

Apple cider vinegar is a popular health tonic that is pushed as a powerhouse for health – and for good reason. The food has been used as a health tonic and miracle cure for all different types of ailments, from ACV, to upset stomach, to acne. So in what ways is apple cider vinegar beneficial to your health? Conventional vinegar products are made through fermentation and then are filtered. Most store brought vinegar is clear, distilled, and looks nothing like its raw counterpart. Filtering out and/or pasteurizing the vinegar removes or lessens the health benefits it would otherwise hold. A raw unfiltered vinegar … Continue reading →

“The Fed is ‘ever-interested’ in doing something later,” Jim Grant notes, explaining why he believes the timetable for rate hikes will be pushed back further as fear of allowing a free market in the “most critical” of prices – that of interest rates – would lead to the “unmasking of the misallocations of capital that will have come about through the levitation of asset prices.” Grant further unleashes his verbal attack of truthiness when he points out that the central bank’s persistent easy money policies is on display currently in the form of stifling American enterprise and sending millions of … Continue reading →

Imagine a man with a thick down-home accent arguing in 1964 that the “public accommodations” (Newspeak-to-English: private property) clause of the Civil Rights Act would eventually mean that homosexuals could force unwilling people to provide them with any services they demand. The New York Times and other organs of the prevailing “liberalism” would have derided such a projection as the most preposterous pronouncement one could expect from “opponents of civil rights.”  Yet half a century later, that is exactly the case. Ideas indeed have consequences, just as implications involve commitments. The current derision of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act reveals … Continue reading →