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NEW YORK — Dan Rather returned to the CBS News airwaves for the first time since his bitter exit 18 years ago, appearing in a reflective interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” days before the debut of a Netflix documentary on the 92-year-old newsman’s life. After 44 years at the network, 24 as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” Rather left under a cloud following a botched investigation into then-President George W. Bush’s military record. Rather signed off as anchor for the last time on March 9, 2005, and exited the network when his contract ended 15 months later.

Dan Rather is happier than a horse without a saddle — and feeling just about as free. Lately he's been humming the lyrics to Rodney Crowell's "Still Learning How to Fly." He even popped into Comedy Central on Tuesday night to banter with fake news guy Jon Stewart and offer a few folksy one-liners. On a more serious note, the proud Texan and former CBS News anchor is embarking on a new career as a "global correspondent" for "Dan Rather Reports," a weekly news program on the super-niche network HDNet. He has free rein to gallop into stories that his...

Crushing America in Brief The first salvo was the Bank of the United States, a very early Rothschild operation, which got pooh-pooh'd into oblivion by Andrew Jackson in 1836. Then came the Civil War and the expansion of Presidential and central (Washington) power. This was orchestrated by Abraham Lincoln, who was only doing what had been made necessary by others. The war was in large part a Rothschild operation, both strategic and vindictive in character. Then came the income tax amendment (1909-1913) and the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Both of these were Rothschild-Rockefeller orchestrations. Republican whip Nelson Aldrich, a senator...