"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
Thomas Sowell in Is Reality Optional?
"I sleep like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up screaming."
Then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, re reports that President George W. Bush had slept like a baby in the runup to the Iraq war, quoted in Globe and Mail Nov. 16, 2004 (I swear I thought of this joke years earlier but Powell beat me into print and may himself have come up with the gag long before)
In my latest National Post column I say that not attacking North Korea is a lot riskier than it sounds.
In my latest National Post column I say it's time to leave Afghanistan and keep our powder dry and our morale up for the next challenge.
In my latest National Post column I say compassionate, intelligent, constructive discussion of Confederate monuments must begin with forthright recognition that they celebrate racial slavery and bigotry.
"The ruling class of the eighteenth century were coarse and corrupt, but they were capable and courageous. They made great blunders, they were blind and indifferent to great evils, but they weathered terrible storms."
Sir C.P. Ilbert Parliament
John Robson of TheRebel.media explains how the German army got its nickname "the Huns" during the Boxer rebellion. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/today_in_history_who_said_hun_1900 Subscribe to the Rebel's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/RebelMediaTV PLUS http://www.Facebook.com/JoinTheRebel *** http://www.Twitter.com/TheRebelTV More from John Robson: https://thejohnrobson.com/
John Robson of TheRebel.media looks back on the biggest outbreak of civil and racial unrest in American history. MORE:https://www.therebel.media/today_in_history_the_race_riot_of_the_republic_1863 Subscribe to the Rebel's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/RebelMediaTV PLUS http://www.Facebook.com/JoinTheRebel *** http://www.Twitter.com/TheRebelTV More from John Robson: https://thejohnrobson.com/