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- Confederate Navy Commerce Raiders
- Cautionary Tales of American Tariff History
Sham Cease-Fires versus Lasting Peace
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Ending the Bloodbath in Ukraine
I am an Air Force combat veteran of the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson declared 16 bombing halts to encourage the North Vietnamese to negotiate sincerely for peace. The North Vietnamese used all 16 of these bombing halts to build up and reinforce their manpower, munitions, and supplies to continue their invasion of South Vietnam. This included increasing the number and quality of antiaircraft guns and radar. Thus, Lyndon Johnson’s bombing halts resulted in a stronger enemy and increased U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties. USAF and Navy aircraft crews engaging new and improved North Vietnamese antiaircraft systems along the Ho Chi Minh Trail experienced as a consequence more losses and casualties. I suspect my own Purple Heart experience was related to intensified North Vietnamese antiaircraft tcapabilities following a bombing halt.
Southern Christianity and Slavery
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Understanding the Biblical Foundations for Peace
Confederate President Jefferson Davis - (1808-1889).
Biblical Christianity pervaded the Old South perhaps as much as any society in history. Although authentic faith was by no means universal and nominal Christianity and lapsed moral standards were common enough, a genuine Christian faith and Christian worldview permeated and substantially influenced every level of society and almost every institution. In his comprehensive biography of Stonewall Jackson, Southern historian James I. Robertson Jr. emphasized that Jackson could not be understood without understanding his Christian perspective. Neither can the Old South, nor even the modern South, be fully understood without understanding the degree to which Christian faith and worldviews have pervaded its culture and society for more than two centuries.
Cautionary Tales of American Tariff History
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Revenue Tariffs, Protective Tariffs, and Reciprocal Tariffs
Tariffs were the main source of Federal Government revenue until the 1913 Revenue (Underwood) Act lowered the tariff rate from an average 40 percent to an average of 27 percent and introduced very low corporate and individual income taxes. Individuals making over $3,000 per year paid only one to six percent, and in 1913, this only applied to three percent of the population. The corporate tax was only one percent. With expanded concepts of government responsibility and spending, these rates drifted higher with wars and more liberal social spending in later years. War has an inflationary and disrupting effect on Federal spending and monetary inflation, which often persists in following years. President Woodrow Wilson, who had campaigned for tariff and tax reform in 1912, signed the Act into law on October 3, 1913.
Deceitful Cold War Narrative on Project Ukraine Begins to Unravel
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Uncovering USAID Propaganda Mission
Reading Trump—Advice for Trump
The false narrative that the Ukraine War was an “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation on February 24, 2022, is now beginning to unravel, although the truth was plain to those who did not confine their facts, history, and analysis to the Cold-War-Think narrative that the Russian Federation is still the Soviet Union of 1945 to 1987. The real facts also recognized an important truth—approximately 40 percent of the population of pre-2014 Ukraine is ethnically and culturally either Russian (18%) or a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian (22%). The Russian Federation felt their national security was seriously threated when NATO, pushed by the US in 2008, targeted Ukraine and Georgia to become part of NATO. In 2014, the US under President Barack Obama, then VP Joe Biden, Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, and recent National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan backed a coup to overthrow the duly elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
Confederate Navy Commerce Raiders
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The Heroic Saga of the CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, and CSS Shenandoah
Confederate Navy Captain James D. Bulloch, the Confederate government agent who coordinated and supervised the building and launching of the Confederate cruisers Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah in Liverpool is not a household name among Civil War buffs, but his accomplishments in building a formidable Confederate fleet of commerce raiders in England must be ranked among the most remarkable achievements for the Southern cause.
Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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