or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences by Edgar Allan Poe [Editor’s Note: Poe’s hilarious essay – on the subject of cons and con men – shows that the master of the macabre had an understanding of human nature rivaling Mencken’s. ] Hey, diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle SINCE THE world began there have been two Continue Reading →
An interview with one of Europe’s most well-known political prisoners by Kourosh Ziabari, Foreign Policy Journal ERNST ZUNDEL is a German author and historian who has spent seven years of his life behind bars as a result of expressing his controversial viewpoints and opinions. He is a revisionist who has denied the Holocaust as described by most historians. He has Continue Reading →
by Razvlekatsa Zabavlatsa THE LEADERSHIP of the United States and their British cohorts have been deceiving the public for more than 100 years. Now yoked to Zionism, they are a deadly combination — and they are also deadly to themselves. (pictured: General Stanley McChrystal) I don’t think the rest of the world really understands what’s wrong with America. They see Continue Reading →
by H.L. Mencken A review of Meet General Grant by W. E. Woodward (Horace Liverwright, publishers); The American Mercury, 1928 THE DREADFUL title of this book is not the least of its felicities. If they had been saying such things in his day it seems unquestionable that Grant would have said, “Meet the wife.” He was precisely that sort of Continue Reading →
by H.L. Mencken The American Mercury, September 1930 NO AMERICAN historian, so far as I know, has ever tried to work out the probable consequences if Grant instead of Lee had been on the hot spot at Appomattox. How long would the victorious Confederacy have endured? Could it have surmounted the difficulties inherent in the doctrine of States’ Rights, so Continue Reading →