An interview with Victor Davis Hanson (audio).

Tip o’ the hat to B A Deplorable Sewer Rat.

My prediction: nothing will change. If what is to be released fails to validate a conspiracy, the adherents will claim they were scrubbed.

Will Spain let them go? I think probably not.

Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has told the BBC.
In his first interview since Sunday’s referendum, Carles Puigdemont said his government would “act at the end of this week or the beginning of next”.
Meanwhile, Spain’s King Felipe VI said organisers of the vote put themselves “outside the law”.
He said the situation in Spain was “extremely serious”, calling for unity.

Today was supposed to be the day of a referendum on separation of Catalonia from Spain. It didn’t go well.
Catalonia is in the NE region of Spain. Way, way, way back it was its own country (actually Marches), the Catalan Counties. These were for the most part a result of Charlemange’s need to hold the line from the Umayyad Moors in Aquitaine.
A marriage later joined what France didn’t have with Aragon. Much later Aragon joined with Castile when Ferdinand married Isabella. The union became known as Spain. Together they finished the Reconquesta of the Iberian Peninsula.
Catalonia and its main city of Barcelona, was the last region to fall to Franco’s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, after which the war ended.

Hugh Marston Hefner, April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017 – Rest in Peace

A new book explores how a week-long war–one barely covered in college history courses–explained the subsequent sixty years of American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Thank’s Oz, that’s what you get for surfing the world with Linux and Javascript off.

In a nutshell.

Steve Twomey, of Smithsonian Magazine, has written a comprehensive article of what happened on December 7, 1941 and the months leading up to it. Highly recommended!
h/t John Galt

In the Jerusalem Post.
And now we know why he flew commercial.

I need to correct an earlier tweet. @stephenharper was invited to Peres' funeral by the Israeli foreign ministry not by @JustinTrudeau /PMO.

— Althia Raj (@althiaraj) September 29, 2016

When America has a spine.
h/t Adrian.

There is a reason the sun never set on the former British Empire.