Rise of Christendom
Christians, despite facing intermittent bouts of slaughter at the hands of Roman leaders, not only grew in numbers over the centuries, they eventually subsumed Rome’s empire. ...
About: Charles Scaliger
Posts by Charles Scaliger
Political Predictions: Obama’s Second Term
With Barack Obama in the presidency for a second term and Democrats still control the Senate, we can forecast U.S. foreign policy, financial policy, and government growth. ...
Talks of Carbon Tax After Hurricane Sandy
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and Democratic gains in the 2012 elections, a radical old idea is getting a second look inside the Beltway. Faced with the challenge of raising...
Student Loan Defaults on the Rise as Debt Crisis Worsens
With college costs soaring and the economy stalled, desperate college graduates, unable to repay college loans, are defaulting en masse. According to a new report by the Department of Education, default rates...
QE3: Quantitatively Easing America Further Into Inflation
Everybody knew it was coming. With the economy continuing to founder, it was only a matter of time before Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve decided to turn once again — like...
Concerning China
China has made tremendous strides in the world economy in the last 30 years, and many are predicting this progress to continue. But China has possibly insurmountable problems. ...
New Revelations on the Katyn Forest Massacre: Roosevelt Knew
After 70 years of denial, new declassified documents show that the Roosevelt Administration knew — and covered up the fact — that Stalin butchered 22,000 Polish military officers. ...
Argentina’s Government Clamps Down on Credit Card Use
Argentina's government is growing more desperate as her currency is once again caught in an inflationary maelstrom. Are draconian financial and currency controls in America's future? ...
The Promise of Privatized Space
The power of the free market is finally being brought to bear on the Final Frontier. The new "space race" among private corporations has every intention of succeeding where government has...
American Middle Class Being Compressed Out of Existence
For the last decade, household incomes have been declining steadily, and the American middle class is being squeezed. In fact, barring a very dramatic change in political sentiment, the American middle...
Is Europe Facing a Financial “Black September”?
What is certain is that an implosion in Europe's debt crisis is reaching the point of inevitability in much the same manner that the housing bubble came to a head and...
The Mass Extinction Trope
They’re baack! After two decades, the UN’s eco-globalist faction has returned to Rio de Janeiro to put the “plan” back in “planet.” Now that we’re more than a decade into the...
The Surveillance State: Knowing Every Bit About You
Supposedly on Americans’ behalf, the U.S. government is employing new hardware, such as supercomputers, monitoring systems, and laws to literally and figuratively lay us bare at will. “The right of the...
February’s Deficit the Highest Ever
In yet another sign that the looming American debt crisis is close to spiraling out of control, February’s monthly federal deficit was the highest ever recorded — $229 billion, according to...
McCain Urges War on Syria
The dogs of war are straining at the leash once again. Senator John McCain, who never met a military intervention he didn’t like, is now calling for the United States to...