Grandpa Bush sure appears to have had a lot more on the ball than Jeb. In the below 1953 interview, for whatever it is worth, Preston Bush comes out in favor of higher interest rates to fight inflation. He also has some interesting comments on eminent domain, which I am sure Trump can twist to use to his advantage. There is definitely a sharpness and  energy gene that wasn’t passed along to George H.W., George W. and Jeb that grandpa had. Reprinted with permission from Economic Policy Journal.

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People often ask our agony uncle Honest John how they can make their car last. And he refers them to the advice of Irv Gordon (above), who owns a Volvo P1800 which he bought new in 1966 and has since driven more than 3,000,000 miles. That’s the equivalent of 120 times around the world. Irv has driven the car daily in all weathers and is still on the original engine. Here are his top 10 tips. 1. Start with a car you really like. “If you don’t like your car, you’ll never go the distance.” 2. Change the oil and … Continue reading

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It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him. But no one can replace Justice Scalia. He was a giant among jurists. For a third of a century, he led the conservative wing of the high court, creating a new school of judicial thought called “originalism.” But originalism is not conservatism, which, in the judicial era that preceded Scalia, often meant court decisions that “conserved” the radical social … Continue reading

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Stephen King once said, “People want to know why… I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.” Actually, it was Robert Bloch who said it, although the line is often attributed to King. And because King is such an imaginative fellow, it is easy to believe that it was he who said it. Nevertheless, Stephen King is quite a clever writer. And so you may wonder what the King of Horror made of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, … Continue reading

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Are you intentionally making mistakes at work to make yourself look incompetent? Are you purposely sabotaging your presentations? Are you setting yourself up for failure as an instructor? Hopefully, the answer is no. Yet the vast majority of men I see who want to be influential fail to master the three tips I’ll share today. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Men spend a lot of time, money, and effort learning to be more persuasive speakers and negotiators. And for good reason — mastering these skills can reap huge returns when it comes to business and personal success. But what if … Continue reading

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Book review of Subtracting Christianity: Essays on American Culture and Society, a selection of Joseph Sobran’s writing edited by Fran Griffin and Tom Bethell. This book, a posthumous sampling of Joseph Sobran’s writing, was assembled by close friends and associates Fran Griffin and Tom Bethell and is a must-read for all the readers of Lew Rockwell’s fine website. To my mind, Sobran ranks along with Russell Kirk (I had the privilege of knowing them both fairly well) as one of the most important truly conservative (in every way) writers of the last century. Joe Sobran had a Renaissance mind along with … Continue reading

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Pardon me while I sit back and enjoy the panic of the Republican – and media – elites as the GOP frontrunner takes up that old left-wing antiwar slogan: “Bush lied – people died!” That’s the essence of what Donald Trump said at Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential debate when moderator John Dickerson – who smirked his way through the entire debate – asked Trump if he still thought George W. Bush should be impeached as he supposedly said in a long ago interview: “George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We … Continue reading

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Gstaad—I had the rather subversive idea of offering a six-figure sum to Oriel College, Oxford. On one condition: that the college immediately terminate the Rhodes scholarship for the South African Ntokozo Qwabe, the hypocrite who led the campaign to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, as well as any other recipients of Cecil’s munificence who are blackening his name a century later. It is the least these hypocrites deserve. Oxbridge has become a joke by trying to emulate the LSE in radicalism and other such ludicrous poses. The group that called Jihadi John a beautiful young man should be allowed … Continue reading

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While you are enjoying your Sunday, the insane neoconservatives who control Western foreign policy and their Turkish and Saudi Arabian vassals might be preparing the end of the world. Any person who relies on Western media has no accurate idea of what is happening in Syria.I will provide a brief summary and then send you to two detailed accounts. The neoconservative Obama regime set-up the Syrian government headed by Assad for overthrow. A long propaganda campaign conducted in Washington’s behalf by the Western media portrayed the democratically-elected Assad as a “brutal dictator who uses chemical weapons against his own people.” … Continue reading

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The annual Munich Security Conference ended Sunday with many speeches and press reports across the trans-Atlantic region projecting an invasion of Syria by Turkey and the Saudis, egged on by Obama’s Defense Secretary Ash Carter, to stop the Russians and the reconstituted Syrian military forces from saving Syria from the fate of Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lyndon LaRouche said today,

It’s a bluff. They can’t win, so they are bluffing. The Saudis are in jeopardy, broke. The Erdogan policy is a failure. There may be a breaking of the ranks within Turkey against Erdogan. Putin is in control of the front in Syria, and therefore controls the situation. He’s sitting there, continuing with his policy. The Syrian forces have been consolidated and will likely take Aleppo and perhaps Raqqa.

LaRouche added that “Putin is on the high end of history.”

Meanwhile, the entire western financial system is in a state of free fall. The utter bankruptcy of the system was addressed today by one of Germany’s “Wise Men” from the German Council of Economic Advisers, Prof. Peter Bofinger, who issued a strong dissent from the Council’s backing for the bail-in policy (backed by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble). The bail-in, he said will “ignite an unstoppable Euro bond crisis,” adding that the policy is “the easiest way to break up the Euro Zone.” Italy and Spain, he said, will not accept the bail-in theft of their citizens’ savings, but will be forced to return to their national currencies.

Obama is vulnerable. His “regime change” policy has run into the force of reason, lead by Putin and the Chinese Silk Road. His defense of Wall Street and rejection of Glass Steagall has now been exposed as the source of a speculative bubble far bigger than that which sparked the 2008 crisis. His mass killing, through drones, through perpetual war, through legalized drugs, and through deadly economic austerity, has caught up with him. The American population knows this, but is scared and cowardly, accepting the fraud of an election campaign which does not even acknowledge the clear danger, let alone offer any solutions.

The solution is known – but it must be implemented now, which requires the removal of Obama from office by constitutional means, in order to shut down Wall Street and stop the rush toward thermonuclear war. Inspiring the American population, and the world, by fighting for the restoration of America’s space program, in league with China and Russia, as a science driver for humanity, is the most urgent necessity.

Governor Abbott has previously looked into other controversial allegations.

Last week US stock markets tumbled yet again, leaving the Dow Jones index down almost 1500 points for the year. In fact, most major world markets are in negative territory this year. There are many Wall Street cheerleaders who are trying to say […]

As I’ve said time and time again, the greatest cancer of all cancers afflicting these United States is a startling deterioration in the rule of law. Specifically, the institutionalization of a two-tier justice system in which the rich and powerful can

First it was the OPEC oil cartel which died a slow, painful, death. Now, another historic cartel may be on its last legs: the DeBeers diamond cartel