Chapter Twenty-Six: CLEANSING THE TEMPLE

The Jade Steps

Chapter Twenty-Six:  Cleansing The Temple

Much of the royal household was transferred to the Palace of Axayacatl.  Montezuma's chefs set up the royal kitchens, attendants the royal baths, servants the royal wardrobe, so that he was fed, bathed, and clothed as before.  Suitable quarters were arranged for his wives and concubines, which he frequently visited.  His retinue of courtiers and counselors was with him throughout the day.  Petitioners and ambassadors from various parts of the empire came to plea with him or present him with tribute. 

All seemed normal – with one difference.  The only guards, of (more…)

OILY LIES OF THE LEFT

With oil prices reaching record levels, the left is up to its old tricks, blaming the President and calling for lots of expensive big government "solutions". As part of this push, they argue that we're running out of oil.

But clearly, this argument is not new — and it's dead wrong.

In 1874, Pennsylvania's state geologist fretted that America had only a four-year supply of oil left. He was wrong.

In 1914, Washington claimed we had only a ten-year supply. It was wrong.

In 1940, the government announced that reserves would be depleted within 15 years. Wrong again.

In 1977, (more…)

IRAN UNRAVELING?

"The Voice of America is not in the business of persuading Iranians to overthrow their government," declared VOA Director David Jackson in Washington the other day.  He said this with a wink as he then noted the "amazing number" of e-mails his office receives daily now begging America:  "Please invade Iran!"

Things have not been going well for Ahmadinejad the Persian Midget and his sour band of terrorist mullahs this week.  This is thanks to Porter Goss giving Michael Hayden a lesson in how to run psy-ops at the CIA before his departure tomorrow (Friday, 5/26).

The day after Alberto (more…)

HOW DIFFERENT IS AMERICAN EDUCATION FROM COMMUNISM?

When I went to college I had my biggest problem with the discipline of history. It may have started when I was a kid in Hungary and first ran up against official "scholars" who rewrote Hungary’s history-renamed the streets in Budapest, rewrote all the textbooks, and reshuffled the holidays, and even completely recast Western intellectual history.

Under Marxism there was room for just one account of the development of philosophy, namely, what Karl Marx and his epigones wrote.

At first I thought that in a relatively free society historians could be trusted a lot more than under Marxism. But I (more…)