By Noah Clarke.
On September 9, 2009 Rep. Joe Wilson from South Carolina interrupted President Obama’s address to Congress on health care. He shouted “You lie!” when Mr. Obama claimed his health reform plan would not cover illegal immigrants.
The pundits, politicians and other run-at-the-mouths in D.C. were shocked at the breech in decorum. Senator John McCain [...]

By Noah Clarke
On October 22, 1929 the following headline ran in the Washington Post: “Bank Stocks Gain in Spite of Upset: Turmoil Fails to Shake Confidence in Soundness of Securities.” Reporter Thomas Cahill went on to write that the business community felt there was nothing “fundamentally wrong” with the country’s economic situation. About midway through [...]