How things change out from under us
Anyone who has been around for awhile and who pays any attention to news sees many disturbing changes. Recently I read a news report that two children, ages seven and eight, had an altercation at...
View ArticleGrowing Up In America Series – Measuring Decline By Prices
In 1939, the year I was born, gasoline was ten cents per gallon. A new car cost $700. A new house cost $3,850, and the average rent was $28 per month. Harvard tuition was $420 annually. A loaf of bread...
View ArticleGrowing Up In America Series – Privilege Displaces Equality
Privilege Displaces Equality was published in CHRONICLES, October 2009 None of us growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s were under the delusion that we were equal. We were aware of a myriad of differences...
View ArticleCorrecting A Legal Transaction
Correcting A Legal Transaction was published in CHRONICLES, October 2009 The trial was fixed. The judge knew it. The rancher had the town buffaloed. The jury would deliver the verdict the rancher...
View ArticleHow The West Was Restored
How The West Was Restored was published in CHRONICLES, November 2009. He had finally done it. He had mastered the physics of time. He was ready to visit the past. He had made his first fortune in U.S....
View ArticleDoubts about the Law
Doubts About The Law was published in CHRONICLES, September 2009. “Rawhide” Andrews was a Texas Ranger. He came to the force after it was reconstituted in 1874, the Rangers having been discredited in...
View ArticleFinding a Place
The Apaches had found his trail. Despite his Kiowa training, he had slipped up. His mistake could cost him his life. His canteen was full from the spring where he had left his horse. He had hoped the...
View ArticleClaim Jumpers
The shots he heard were too numerous to be a hunter’s work. Maybe Indians had come upon a trapper. Better check it out. If Indians got the trapper, they would be onto him next. Two guns stood a better...
View ArticleFalse Flag Attack
The stagecoach bounced along the uneven trail through Indian lands. A year ago there would have been danger from Indians. But Ulysses Grant had sent General Philip Henry Sheridan, who had brought the...
View ArticleAn African Story — Paul Craig Roberts
UPDATE: Readers are asking if this is a news story. The answer is no. It is fiction that I wrote. However, I have learned that Nick Brandt has set up an anti-poaching operation in Africa. Go to this...
View ArticleTimes Change Out From Under Us
Times Change Out From Under Us Paul Craig Roberts He had lugged the 50 lb. bag of Milorganite into the garden in order to discover, as on many prior occasions, that he had nothing with which to open...
View ArticleA Choice Made
A Choice Made Paul Craig Roberts She gave up on young men after her first few dates. She wanted someone with the confidence and assuredness of her father and grandfather. “You have to give them a...
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