Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2219

Sirhan Sirhan Is Innocent

In 1968, almost five years after the killing of President John F. Kennedy had stunned America, the hopes of Democrat voters were pinned on his idealistic younger brother.

At 42, Robert F. Kennedy was seeking nomination as Democrat presidential candidate. Yet no one realised that history was about to repeat itself in a brutal and shocking way.

6.30pm, Tuesday, June 4, 1968. Malibu, California

All day, Californians have been voting in a crucial primary. If Robert Kennedy wins, he’ll almost cert...

He Saved Many Lives

A seventh-grade science teacher and football coach tackled and disarmed a school shooter last week in Noblesville, Indiana — about 28 miles north of Indianapolis.

The Noblesville Police Department said 29-year-old Jason Seaman received minor injuries after swatting two handguns away from a student who opened fire in his classroom shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday, striking a 13-year-old girl. Identities of the victim and shooter have been withheld by police at this time.

An anonymous student desc...

Are You a Spelling Whizz?

If you fancy yourself a spelling whizz, then take this quiz to put your knowledge to the test. 

Players are challenged to identify the correct spelling of nine common words in a series of multiple choice questions.

They are likely to give you pause for thought as the incorrect spellings often have just a letter or two out of place. 

Indeed its creator, Playbuzz user Terry Stein, claims its so difficult that ‘no one’ will be able to score full marks. 

Ready to prove him wrong? Scroll down to t...

Sub-Prime Credit Card Delinquency is Ballooning

Americans have loaded themselves down with debt and some are struggling to pay the bill.

Total household debt hit a record $13 trillion in 2017, eclipsing levels seen on the eve of the Great Recession. Americans have been burning up the credit cards. Revolving debt grew by $26 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017 alone, a 3.2% increase. Americans have run up a nearly $1 trillion credit card tab. Meanwhile, flows into serious delinquency have increased steadily since the third quarter of 2016...

They Get Bigger While Their Engines Get Smaller

Trucks continue to get bigger – what buyers seem to want – while their engines get smaller, which is effectively a function of what the government demands, as the downsizing of engines is one of the ways for the car companies to reduce the fuel consumption of the vehicles so equipped.

Which they have to do – not because buyers of trucks (or even most cars) are demanding fuel economy uber alles but because the government refuses to accept that lots of buyers care about other things uber alles....

2 Huge Vaccine Scandals the Media Ignores

Some lies are so big, many people can’t accept the fact that they’re lies. Their minds are boggled. “No,” they say, “that couldn’t be.” But yes, that could be, and is.

Two giant vaccine scandals are in progress at the moment.

The mainstream press is mentioning them, here and there, but without any intent to raise alarms, dig in, investigate, and get down to the core of the problem.

So I’ll get to the core.

The first scandal revolves around the flu vaccine for the current year. The CDC and oth...

It’s a Guy’s Dream Come True

Editor’s Note: This is an updated and revised edition for 2018.

There are a lot of things to consider when it comes to designing and outdoor kitchen area. Since a lot of people have different needs, budgets, climates, space, etc, I am going to approach this article by offering up some suggestions for outdoor kitchen components that can be bought one at a time to fit into tight budgets and some that can be set up for a season and taken down if needed. At the same time, any of these components...

Meditations on America’s Wars

War for the USA these days is a weird, inconclusive enterprise. Our objectives are poorly discerned, hardly even articulated anymore, just a pattern of going through the motions as destructively as possible with no end in sight. How many Americans can state what our mission in Afghanistan is after seventeen years of blundering around its bare mountains and valleys? What exactly has been the point of our exercises in Syria? To get rid of Bashar al-Assad, the wonks might say. Really? And replac...

America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence

Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just like Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia in July, 1914, that led to the beginning of World War I. And just like the impossible demands made of Milosevic in 1999 and of Saddam Hussein in 1991 and 2003, and so many other times when...

The US Is Pushing Russia, China, and Iran Together

The United States is isolating itself from countries around the world, and making countries unite in a time of economic repression from Washington, prominent investor Jim Rogers says.

“America is pushing China and Russia together, America’s pushing China and Iran together, pushing China, Iran, Russia all together, and that’s pushing America out of some very major countries in the world,” Rogers told Sputnik news agency after the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

An American...