From Soup To Nuts.

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  June 11th at 02:21 PM  | 

Some of the most enduring images of the great depression of 1929-1939 are those of long lines of obviously beaten-down men in soup lines… hungry women and children with haunted eyes. Shantytowns sprang up all over the country, called Hoovervilles in mocking derision of the disastrous policies that engendered the crash and the even worse schemes which perpetuated the depression until 1939 and the advent | Read More »

Iran’s Fools Gambit – An Empty Threat?

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  February 1st at 12:31 PM  | 

Ahmadinejad stuck his unkempt visage in front of the cameras to put a time and date to deliver a ‘telling blow’ to the “world powers” on February eleventh. Is this more of the Iranian President’s usual bloviating rhetoric, or could there be something more sinister here? Keep in mind that Ahmadinejad says nothing his puppet masters have not told him to say. Ahmadinejad Newt Gingrich | Read More »