In 1936, German Chancelor Adolf Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland.  This move directly violated the Treaty of Versailles, but France and England did nothing to stop him. It seems not much has changed in the old Gaul empire in the last 60 years.  At least the English can learn.

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1987. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged. They were 2 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War. They have never feared a nuclear war. They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up. Tianamen Square means nothing to them. Bottle caps ...

I was thumbing through the WSJ op ed pages and came across a fascinating, from a thought provoking standpoint, piece.  The author is quoting one Lawrence Goldstone on what was a major sticking point on the constitution back in 1787.  James Madison finally identified that all the sticking points really boiled down to what to do about slaves in the apportionment of Electoral Votes, Representation, and levies by the feds on the states. The fascinating thing is that in coming to the...