Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2292

In Defense of the Right

The Ash Wednesday massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, seems to have broken more hearts than similar tragedies that preceded it. It was no more senseless than other American school shootings, but there is something about the innocence and bravery and eloquence of the youthful survivors that has touched the souls of Americans deeply.

After burying their dead, the survivors have mobilized into a mighty political force that loosely seeks more laws to regulate th...

Why Are There 28 Days in February?

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
All the rest have 31,
Except for February,
Which got the short stick because it’s cold and no one likes it.  

Well, something to that effect. Some believe February once boasted 29 days and that Augustus Caesar stole a day so he could add it to August, which was named for him. (If there’s a month named after you, why not milk it?) But that’s a myth. Rather, February has 28 days because, to the Romans, the month was an afterthought. In the...

Aggression

If we accept to take a step back, we notice that the different conflicts which have bloodied the Greater Middle East for the last sixteen years, from Afghanistan to Libya, have not been a succession of civil wars, but the application of regional strategies. Thierry Meyssan reminds us of the objectives and the tactics of these wars since the « Arab Springs » and observes the preparation of those to come.

At the end of 2010, a series of wars began, initially presented as popular uprisings. Succ...

Putin Leads Russia To Amass Gold Hoard

Since the days of Lord Novgorod, the great merchant city, the Russian lands were adorned with many a gleaming Golden Horde, though that term became far more sinister when it referred to the Mongol Empire that devasted Rus’, rather than that which filled the treasury.

Now a Golden Horde has returned to Russia, but this time in the form precious metal, and just as she has eclipsed her ancient Eastern Foe, the Mongol Empire, now Russia’s gold reserves have waxed greater than her oriental ally Ch...

Mother, Daughter Refuse To Be Victims

Amid all the anti-gun hysteria these days, it’s important to remember just how useful firearms actually are. They allow people who would otherwise be victims to defend themselves.

A prime example of this comes out of Oklahoma where a mother and daughter took on the guy trying to rob their family-owned liquor store. It did not work out well for him.

The two women spoke out about the incident, as well.

When the gunman turned away, the women said they grabbed guns of their own and opened fire.

T...

Right-Wing Revenge

Georgia conservatives are attempting to derail a jet fuel tax break that the state government was set to hand out to Delta Airlines after the company cut ties with the NRA in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.

— Casey Cagle (@CaseyCagle) February 26, 2018

Atlant...

Americans Are Horrified by Mass Killings

As Americans continue to rage over the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Florida, expressing indignation at both the atrocity and efforts to impose (or reject) gun control, the U.S. government has acknowledged its own perpetual addiction to violence.

According to two letters released by the federal government last week in response to an inquiry from Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, the U.S. plans to maintain its military presence in Syria and Iraq indefinitely, citing vague threats of terrorism.

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Hey, Israel, Saudi Arabia

The deluge of recent reporting regarding possible conflict with nuclear armed North Korea has somewhat obscured consideration of the much higher probability that Israel or even Saudi Arabia will take steps that will lead to a war with Iran that will inevitably draw the United States in. Israel is particularly inclined to move aggressively, with potentially serious consequences for the U.S., in the wake of the recent incident involving an alleged Iranian drone and the shooting down of an Israe...

Discovering the Truth About the South

Southern Independence: Why War?: The War To Prevent Southern Independence – Charles T Pace

The South Was Right! – James Ronald Kennedy

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan B. Peterson

2: Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry Volume II – Beyond the Basics – Massad Ayoob

The Mystery of Banking – Murray N. Rothbard

The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861 – H. W. Johnstone

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies – M...

The True Money Supply

Jeffrey Peshut at RealForecasts.com has composed several very illuminating graphs based on the Rothbard-Salerno True Money Supply (TMS). In one graph Peshut shows the collapse of the growth rate of TMS beginning at the end of 2016, which was caused by the Fed beginning to raise the fed funds target rate at the end of the preceding year. What is of great interest is that the recent deceleration of monetary growth (the second red arrow) almost exactly matches in extent and rapidity the monetary...