Our flight from Albuquerque to Alabama circles over Dallas Love Field. It will be a long layover between flights, but through the clouds I can almost travel back in time to 1963 and the scenes of JFK's body being loaded onto Air Force One as Walter Cronkite narrates the devastating events in solemn tones dripping with the gravitas of history. Our generation had lost. The bad guys had won. But that was a thousand conspiracies ago, and now we know -- after a multitude of books and histories and Oval Office tapes -- that there were no good guys, only different degrees of bad.

It's the conspiracies, not the economy, that drives us. Roswell, JFK's assassination, LBJ's Gulf of Tonkin, Bush's October Surprise, 9/11, and now the all-too-convenient economic collapse. Conspiracies, each of them.

Follow the money, or in the present case, the lack thereof, and you will find the culprit. It was 9/11 that triggered one of the largest cuts in history for the tiniest segment of taxpayers while the rest of the world went to war against the hapless Saddam Hussein, W's Noriega. And it's the economic collapse, which triggers the government's takeover of businesses in the private sector, all standing in line with their corporate hands out waiting for he billions of our money that the Treasury will hand over to them. Sound overly simplistic? Sure it does. Bu the truth usually comes out in the wash just that way.

The nice part of this economic collapse and the New New Deal is that it was all laid out for us very neatly in Joseph's prophecies and his advice to Pharaoh in the Old Testament. You see, Pharaoh had a dream while Joseph was in prison interpreting the dreams of the royal butler, that there would be seven fat cows and seven starved ones coming out of the Nile.

Joseph, probably the first Director of Homeland Security or head of FEMA in history, was called into the Pharaoh's Oval Office to interpret. Joseph foretold the years of plenty and the years of famine, the national depression, and the cries of the masses for help from the central government. And Pharaoh followed Joseph's sage advice: Sell the people grain for bread, but take their land so as to expand the central government, and then relocate the population to interment camps -- concentration camps -- for population control until the famine passed. In the end, Pharaoh, because he stored the extra grain in the times of plenty, had enough grain to feed the population in exchange for taking ownership positions in the land. Sound familiar?

You can get a lot out of the Bible. Abraham invented the first modern contract and established black-letter contract law; Jethro invented the first modern judicial system; Moses invented a top-down bureaucracy, and Ezekiel saw the first flying saucer, grokking his wheel, "turning like a fire in the sky." And then he became a contactee. Take that, David Icke.

Love Field is in sight as we make our descent. Time to pack our gear and move out to our next conspiracy: Nazi Flying Saucers and the menacing story of the Bell and the crashes at Kecksburg -- in the presence of a former SS officer who became NASA's launch director -- and Needles.

There are conspiracies afoot, indeed.

See you on Wednesday nights when our new season starts on March 26.