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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.
USAID Funded Beginning of Ukraine War in 2014
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CIA-Related Agency for Color Revolutions and Regime Changes
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) may sound like the leading edge of a generous and enlightened US foreign Policy. It may have been just that when founded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. It’s original goal was to counter the influence of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and advance US foreign policy interests through socioeconomic development. It has in the past been funded by Congress as an independent Agency under the supervision of the President, Secretary of State, and National Security Council. Over the years it has become a largely secret and independent Deepstate agency tied to aggressive State Department foreign policy closely tied to the CIA. In this regard, it has evolved into an aggressive funder of Color Revolutions and regime changes designed to maintain US control of international affairs. Color Revolutions are US or allied attempts to overthrow, intimidate, or control nations out-of-step with US foreign and economic policy and assure US military dominance and hegemony. In recent years, USAID has also funded propaganda and training programs for pushing liberal gender ideology and Marxist DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusiveness) ideology. The fiscal year 2025 Congressional budget for USAID is about $40 billion but has been subject only to limited Congressional control.
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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