Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2187

Post-War France and Post-War Germany

Back in Junior High School I became an avid war-gamer, and was fascinated by the military history of the past, especially World War II, the most titanic conflict ever recorded. However, although I much enjoyed reading the detailed accounts of the battles of that war, especially on the Eastern Front that largely determined its outcome, I had much less interest in the accompanying political history, and simply relied upon the accounts in my standard textbooks, which I considered quite reliable....

Can You Solve These?

Hi guzzlers

We use numbers every day to describe the world – distances, weights, speeds, debts, populations, and so on. Yet most of us struggle to have an intuitive sense of what these numbers mean. How big is big? How fast is fast?

Today I’ve set a different challenge to my usual mathematical puzzle. The 10 questions below are a test of estimation skills, common sense and general knowledge – but also of our feel for numbers.

Often the best way to get a deeper sense of a what a number means i...

A Debilitating Headache Made Worse

Unless you suffer from migraines yourself, you may think that having a migraine means having a really bad headache. But debilitating head pain is only one part of the medical condition called migraine disorder. Other common symptoms are nausea, dizziness, fatigue, sensitivity to light and sound, and even temporary blindness. The symptoms and causes of migraine look different in different patients, and researchers are only now beginning to understand what the condition is and how to treat it....

North Korea Thinks Pompeo

Pyongyang has voiced its regret over America’s attitude during high-level talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and accused Washington of seeking unilateral and forced denuclearization from North Korea.

“We were expecting the US… to come up with constructive measures to help build confidence in the spirit of reunion and talks. However, the attitude of the US was indeed regrettable,” said a statement released by the Korean Central News Agency.”

Let this be a lesson to Putin, as if he ne...

Time To Retire Outside the US

A new study has ranked the five best cities to retire in on only $30,000 per year – and none of them are in the US.

Planning for retirement has long been known as a complicated and frustrating endeavor fraught with uncertainty, especially given that the average monthly social security check is only $1,404.

According to the Social Security Administration, more than 40 percent of single adults receive more than 90 percent of their income from that monthly social security check.

A study by Inter...

Was the Cheap, Reliable VW Diesel Destroyed

They only crucified Jesus once – and that was enough (so we are told) to atone for all mankind’s sins . . . in perpetuity.

And mankind did (and does) sin. In the moral sense. Murder, theft, rape and all the other uglies.

VW suffers crucifixion in perpetuity for its sins – which are of a purely statutory nature. Like failing to buckle-up for safety. So far, the German automaker has been godsmacked to the tune of $30.4 billion (not a typo) in fines and other levies for tuning its diesel-powered...

Carjacker Attempts To Steal SUV With 2 Toddlers Inside

A Dallas mother leaped into action as a man tried to drive away in her SUV with her two young children. The suspected carjacker, Ricky Wright, 36, is hospitalized after he was shot by an area mom who says he drove off with her kids and refused to stop.

The incident unfolded, according to the Dallas Morning News, at around 10 p.m. Wednesday, when a Shell gas station employee alerted the mother, identified as Michelle Booker-Hicks, that a man was attempting to get into her vehicle. Inside was h...

Comrade Merkel’s Suicidal Bullying

For many years German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been regarded, with reason, as the most powerful woman in the world. Over the past few months, Merkel’s authority has diminished precipitously, however, mainly due to her irrational immigration policy. That much became obvious at last weekend’s emergency EU summit on immigration.

The meeting was hastily convened at Merkel’s insistence to develop a joint European strategy to deal with the ongoing migrant onslaught. In reality, it was meant to...

What Happens at Bohemian Grove?

The complex, behind-the-scenes story of what is going on in the dark sanctuaries of world power is coming into view, piece by piece. A lot is still hidden, but that has as much to do with our collective reluctance to truly confront the darkness as anything else. Evidence and information about our world’s elite continue to mount, thanks to the testimonies of brave whistleblowers and the work of courageous investigators, that we are fundamentally dealing with people who have lost all strands of...

Hospitals Are Making a Killing

It is intuitive that nutritional status at hospital admission predicts the outcome of treatment and length of stay.  Yet too many older patients are over-drugged and undernourished on the day of their admission to the hospital and not only experience more complications and hospital-acquired infections, but by conservative estimation spend an extra costly day or two in the hospital.

If nutritional assessment and corrective therapy were to be instituted upon hospital admission and reduced hospi...