The Birthday Boys

02-12-2009 • Gary North for LewRockwell.com

Darwin & Lincoln

A 'Lincoln Scholar' Comes Clean

02-12-2009 • Thomas J. DiLorenzo for LewRockwell.com

Marvel does not hide the fact, as most other Lincoln "scholars" do, that Seward, on Lincoln’s instructions, orchestrated the passing through the U.S. Senate of a "constitutional amendment specifically prohibiting congressional interfer

Clinton says he tried to Create a "new world economic order" as president

02-08-2009 • theendrun.wordpress.com

In a little-known passage from his 2004 book "My Life" Trilateral Commission member Bill Clinton says he was calling for “new world economic order” as far back as 1987, and that he tried to create one as president.

Nazi find sheds light on Egypt’s sensitive past

2-7-2009 • AP

The discovery of Aribert Heim’s secret life throws light on how the Arab world took in members of the Nazi regime after World War II. A number of Nazis are believed to have been welcomed in the 1950s by the Egyptian regime of then-President Gamal Abd

Nazi fugitive 'Doctor Death' died in 1992

2-4-2009 • AFP

One of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, Aribert Heim or "Doctor Death", thought to be in his 90s and in South America, actually died in Cairo in 1992. German public TV said Heim died of bowel cancer in 1992, under the assumed identity o

Courage in the Face of Death: The White Rose & Sophie Scholl Story

02-02-2009 • Christine Smith Blog

“…The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time….”-from “Leaflet of Resistance” from The White Rose

Comet Impact Theory Challenged

02-02-2009 • arclein

That a cosmological event took place is not in dispute although this headline claims that. The event put a lot of dust, rock and ice on a trajectory toward the Carolinas from just west of Hudson Bay

Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

1-24-2009 • Flowingdata.com via Rense.com

Very cool graphic! If I didn't know better, I'd say this looks like the spread of an infectious disease...

Nazi 'Angel of Death' Josef Mengele created twin town in Brazil

1-21-09 • Telegraph.co.uk

"I think Candido Godoi may have been Mengele's laboratory, where he finally managed to fulfil his dreams of creating a master race of blond haired, blue eyed Aryans," he said.

UK: Huge Iron Age haul of gold coins found

1-19-09 • news.BBC.co.uk

They are thought to have been minted by predecessors of the Iceni Queen Boudicca.

Bull horn owned by Alex Jones going for thousands on eBay

1/8/2009 • Daily Newscaster

Collectors of pop icon memorabilia and fans of the stalwart radio talk show personality Alex Jones will be interested in an item up for auction on eBay.

And So It Begins...

1-08-09 • Market-Ticker.denninger.net

If you depend on that government deficit spending I hope you've been paying attention to my warnings and doing what you have to in order to solve that problem in your personal life. Time may be running out at a much faster rate than I had though

China dinosaur site could be the largest collection ever found

1-02-09 • News.BBC.co.uk

Most of the bones date back to the late Cretaceous period which is around the time when dinosaurs became extinct.

Preamble to Social Mayhem

12-30-08 • PrisonPlanet.com & LewRockwell.com

The society that elected the president-in-waiting is dominated by blind nationalism, trendy savior-worship, an unending ignorance of history, economics and philosophy and devoid of a critical thought process, I fear history will say of this moment, “

Atomic John

12-25-2008 • The New Yorker

The most accurate account of [Little Boy's] inner workings—an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents—has been written by a truck driver from Waukesha, Wisconsin, named John Coster-Mullen.

Census Bureau releases population estimates

12-22-2008 • USA Today

The Census Bureau just released population estimates for the United States & State by State

Listen to a family Christmas recording hidden since the Great War

12-21-2008 • Daily Mail

Eight 95 year old phonograph cyclinders, made of beeswax and soap, feature the Smith family from Salisbury in Wiltshire singing carols and discussing 'daddy being away at war.'

Frost vs Nixon

12-19-2008 • www.frostnixon.com

In 1977, Sir David Frost conducted a gripping, candid interview with President Richard Nixon that shook the world and changed our perceptions and beliefs forever.

Deep Throat dead at 95

12-19-2008 • NY Times

W. Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as "Deep Throat," became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95.

The Nazis: A Warning from History

12-16-2008 • Christine Smith Blog

Often it's not that people are morally beyond commission of evil, but only refrain from it because it is not socially acceptable. Tyrannical government doesn’t occur overnight. Gradual, it can be lauded and enthusiastically embraced.

Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer (VIDEO - Computer recreated)

12-13-2008 • www.newscientist.com

One of Archimedes's creations was saved, though. The general took back to Rome a mechanical bronze sphere that showed the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth.

HuffPost Readers Blog The Meltdown

12-05-2008 • Huffington Post

(Interesting window into the lives of Huffington Post Readers)

HBO Films: House Of Saddam

12-04-2008 •

New TV HBO Miniseries

Marine archaeologists find remains of slave ship

11-26-2008 • NY times

Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish s

JFK's Assassination - My Interviews with Witnesses (by C. Smith)

11-23-2008 • Christine Smith website

First person accounts from Hugh Aynesworth (investigative journalist), Bob Jackson (Pulitzer winning photographer of Oswald gunned down by Jack Ruby); and others including Bob Porter about the JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald and Ruby.

Herod may have been buried among lavish artwork

11-19-2008 • AP

King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Pardons’ Past: Compassion for Cash

11-18-2008 • Mondo

Remember PardonGate? DBKP takes a look back at past Presidential pardons, in particular the numerous and “unusual” pardons granted by Bill Clinton including members of the terrorist group, FALN, and financier Marc Rich.