Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2478

What To Do About Korea

“The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly.”

So President Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden this week.

But how this is to be done “rapidly” is not so easy to see.

North Korea has just returned to us Otto Warmbier, a student sentenced to 15 years hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster. Otto came home comatose, and died within days.

Trump’s conundrum: How to keep such a regime from acquiring an I...

Be Armed, Be Your Own Doctor, and Learn Revisionist History

Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works – Andrew W Saul PH.D.  Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas – Phillip F. Nelson

Straight Talk on Armed Defense: What the Experts Want You to Know – Massad Ayoob

From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition – Clyde N. Wilson

Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture – Clyde N. Wilson

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story – Phil Stanford

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes – P...

Texas Boys State Votes To Secede

Boys State is an annual one-week summer assembly of high school seniors held in every state in the union except Hawaii. It is sponsored by the American Legion.

The boys for one week organize themselves into rival political parties. Then they conduct mock civil government.

I attended in 1958 in California. It had a profound effect on me. I gained my self-confidence that week. I was elected to state office.

In my day, the two parties were Tories and Whigs. The head of the Whig party was Stacy K...

So long, Yellen

Uh-oh. Chairman Yellen assured us today that she does not believe that there will be another financial crisis “in our lifetimes.”

You may recall another perfectly timed assurance by a high-powered economist:

The stability of the economy is greater than it has ever been in our history.  We really are in remarkable shape. . . .The United States is at the peak of its performance in its history.  There has never been a time in the United States when we have had the state of prosperity, its level...

Not Your Typical Mexican Politician

When recalling notorious Mexican politicians, a string of populists, socialists, and fame-seeking warlords come to mind; each one elevated to worshipful status because of how they addressed a manufactured crisis. You know, because people of the plundering ilk write the official history books. It’s the same reason that people list the biggest thieves and warmongers as the “best” U.S. presidents.  Consequently, many have heard names like Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa, and Miguel Hidalgo. But, few...

The Skinny on Fake News

Here is the proof. The skinny on fake news.

By Saint John Hunt

Basically, I’m typing this for myself. I can’t imagine anyone with half a brain who is ignorant of the collusion between the mainstream (fake) news media and their masters. The purpose of said collusion is to discredit the Trump administration by the non-stop reporting of fabricated “news” aimed at creating doubt in the public’s mind, with regard to their president.

The masters I speak of are in our own government, as well as fore...

Car Ownership To Be a Thing of the Past?

Car ownership will soon be a thing of the past, some say.

Some wish.

Instead of buying a car every so often and driving that car for a period of years – and owning the car – people will simply tap an app and rent a car by the hour or day; whatever their need at the moment happens to be.

It sounds breezy – and oh-so-easy!

This may indeed be our metrosexualized future  . . . god help us. But not for those reasons. There are always other reasons. The real reasons.

There is money to be made, natu...

Hey, Comrade Bernie

Once upon a time, the Great and Learned People of our society believed that we could have our own form of communism without all of the starvation, mass executions, and imprisonment that marked the establishment of communism abroad. When Leonard Silk, economics editor of the New York Times, wrote The Economists in 1978, he named his chapter on John Kenneth Galbraith, “Socialism Without Tears.” Yes, “American Exceptionalism” also extended to the imposition of socialism that would bypass the dea...

How Much Are Property Taxes in Each State?

Even if you rent instead of own, property tax still is an important component of your housing cost. Your landlord will take the tax on his house – your home – into account to calculate your rent. So either way, the real-estate tax is a factor in your cost of living well worth considering. How high or low your effective real-estate tax is, varies by state. New Jersey has the highest rate, at 2.35%. Hawaii the lowest, at 0.27%.

Time to buy old US gold coins

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The Greatest Generation?

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.  There, I underwent a life-changing experience.

Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans means to history.  It is, I believe,...