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“Make America Great Again” will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history. Yet it raises a question: how did America first become the world’s greatest economic power? In 1998, in The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy, this writer sought to explain. However, as the blazing issue of that day was Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, it was no easy task to steer interviewers around to the McKinley Tariff. Free Trade Shouldn't Be a Litmus Test...

It’s counterintuitive, but oil is greener than “green” fuels, and the oil spill doesn’t change that fact. A rolling “dead zone” off the Gulf of Mexico is killing sea life and destroying livelihoods. Recent estimates put the blob at nearly the size of New Jersey. Alas, I’m not talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As terrible as that catastrophe is, such accidents have occurred in U.S. waters only about once every 40 years (and globally about once every 20 years). I’m talking about the dead zone largely caused by fertilizer runoff from American farms along the Mississippi and Atchafalaya...

JUSTIFYING THE WAR IN IRAQ Everywhere we hear Liberals, the anti-war crowd, and some even conservatives criticizing the Coalition forces' invasion and liberation of Iraq because "no Weapons of Mass Destruction have been found," "there is no direct link with the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Towers and killed almost 3000 civilians," "there was no Uranium sought in Africa," or that "Saddam did not have close ties with our 'real' enemy, Al-Qaida." These critics claim that we've lost our focus on the War on Terrorism and the war in Iraq is "distracting" us from hunting down and prosecuting Osama...