When Russia attacked Ukraine, “experts” said the country would fall within days. It hasn’t. One reason is that the Russian military wasn’t as effective as people thought. Another is that Ukrainians surprised the world by courageously defending their country.  

French psychologist Gustave Le Bon, illustrating “the mental state of crowds,” wrote about the extent to which the manager of a popular theater of his day used off-stage theatrics to make it almost impossible for his audience to distinguish the “real” from the “unreal.”

You may recall the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and not favorably.  

On July 6, in an act of vandalism for which the culprits are still at large, one of the four “Georgia Guidestones” was blown apart. The damage was so severe that the entire monument was rendered too…

Sri Lanka is an example of how easily ill-advised economic policies can turn a fairly prosperous country into one that is literally out of gas.

Joe Biden’s ineptitude is now a threat to world peace.

Vladimir Putin has warned he will use nuclear weapons against the West if anyone interferes in Ukraine.

Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram made a shocking statement this week, which has not gotten nearly the coverage it deserves. She said:

By: Robert C. O’Brien – wsj.com – April 19, 2022 The idea that in 2022, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council would use nuclear weapons to conquer a neighboring country is unthinkable. Yet here we are. For months, Russian officials and commentators have been rattling their nuclear saber and touting Moscow’s doctrine of “escalating to de-escalate”—in other...

The Consumer Price Index increased by 1.2 percent in March, the quickest month-over-month increase in more than 15 years, and the year-over-year inflation rate is now at 8.5 percent, the highest since December 1981.