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The Red Sea Crisis
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
Arabian Peninsula
Understanding the Global Economic and Security Threat
Last week in my article on Yemen and the Houthi rebels, I gave some statistics on Yemen in the first paragraph. Ita population is 34.5 million. More than 99 percent are Muslims, of which about 58 percent are Sunni Muslims and 42 percent are Shia Muslims. The Shia Muslims are overwhelmingly of the Zaydi branch, which is closely associated with the Houthi rebels. The average annual price adjusted GDP is only $2,053. The literacy rate is about 70 percent.
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Yemen and the Houthi Rebels
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
An Iranian-backed Civil War Spreading into the Red Sea Impacting Israel-Gaza Conflict and Shipping
Yemen is a nation of 34.5 million people located on the southern end of the Arabian peninsula and bordered by Saudi Arabia on the north and Oman on the northeast. It borders the southern end of the Red Sea on the west, the Gulf of Aden on the south, and the Arabian Sea on the southeast. It has maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. It is the second largest country on the Arabian peninsula. Its price adjusted annual GDP per person was only $2,053 in 2023. According to the CIA Factbook, the literacy rate is about 70 percent. The population is over 99 percent Muslim, of which about 58 percent are Sunni and 42 percent are Shia Muslims, primarily of the Zaydi branch closely associated with the Houthi rebels. The legal system is primarily Islamic Law (Sharia) supplemented by Napoleonic Law, English Common Law, and local traditions.
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The 1861 Cherokee Declaration of Independence
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
Why the Cherokees Sided with the Southern Cause
Stand Watie, Brigadier General, CSA, Western Cherokee Principal Chief 1862-1866.
On August 21,1861, the (Western) Cherokee Nation by a General Convention at Tahlequah (in Oklahoma) declared its common cause with the Confederate States against the Northern Union. In separate sympathetic actions their brethren, the Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws joined in this determination. A formal treaty was finalized on October 7, and on October 9, John Ross, the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation called into session the Cherokee National Committee and National Council to formally approve and implement the treaty and future course of action.
In 1861, there were two principal groups of Cherokees in the United States, the Western Band with a population slightly over 20,000 and the smaller Eastern Band in North Carolina with a population of only about 2,000. Both sided with the Southern Confederacy, but the larger Western Band made a formal declaration of independence from the United States.
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Reviewing the Immigration Disaster
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
Congressional Immigration Grades for NC and SC
According to the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR), illegal immigrants were costing American taxpayers $182.1 billion per year at the beginning of 2023. These illegal immigrants contribute only $31.4 billion in federal, state, and local taxes paid, leaving American taxpayers with a net cost of $150.7 billion per year. Also according to FAIR, there were 15.5 million illegal immigrants in the U.S at the beginning of 2022, and President Biden’s unlawful Open Border policy has added another 6.0 million in just two years, bringing it to 21.5 million. Many knowledgeable immigration scholars believe illegal immigrants may now number well over 30 million, and thus the net 2023 fiscal cost for illegal immigration was far in excess of $200 billion. The truth is that we have completely lost control of immigration and the ability to estimate and contain its mounting fiscal costs.
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Defining Courage and Character
- By Mike Scruggs
- Category: Mike Scruggs' Column
The Dust Off Patriotism of Patrick Grady
On December 24, 2023, the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association (AVVBA) released a 47-minute video, entitled The Truths and Myths of the Vietnam War. The video is introduced by Academy Award-nominated actor Sam Elliot. The first section of the video beginning at about one minute and 14 seconds and lasting a little over a minute features retired Army Major General Patrick Henry Grady, a Vietnam Medal of Honor recipient, explaining the significance of the Vietnam War and the importance of understanding it on a factual and truthful basis. In a later portion of the video, beginning at 9 minutes and 10 seconds , he narrates many of the tremendous and unprecedented humanitarian accomplishments of the American military in Vietnam, but which were largely ignored by the media. He has often said that “humanitarianism was our great victory in that war.”
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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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