The State Of The Military-Industrial Complex Is Strong – OpEd

Source: Eurasia Review

What can you do with a bunch of used generals? If you keep them active, they need new assignments. These can be expensive. But if you let them retire with fat pensions, they’ll go to work for arms producers, lobbying for more w ...
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Extra Credit: Paul Vallas' "non-ideological" approach to school reform

Source: Madison.com

In this 2008 file photo, Paul Vallas, superintendent of the New Orleans Recovery School District, answers a question at a news conference in New Orleans. Reporter Matthew DeFour covers Madison K-12 education and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instr ...
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New York Times: ‘The Tyranny of Clichés,’ by Jonah Goldberg

Source: Eastern Owyhee County District

There was one small flaw in this argument, though. Liberals don’t believe that at all. They may favor government action to bail out the auto companies, but they don’t favor government auto companies. There are exceptions, and a liberal belief ...
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Why Corporate Capitalism is Unsustainable

Source: Center for a Stateless Society

I’m not a Marxist, but I find a lot of Marx’s ideas useful. Old Karl certainly had a gift for turning a phrase. Nobody who could come up with something as Proudhonian as “the associated producers” could be all bad. One of his best in my opinion was that ...
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"Did Coca-Cola kill 5 million Ukrainians?"

Source: small dead animals

You cannot understand the Left if you do not understand that leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some left-wing Christians’ and Jews’ claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blata ...
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Do ALL The Members Of The House Financial Services Committee Take Bribes From The Banksters?

Source: Down With Tyranny!

There are certain committees, congressmembers love getting on-- and sometimes pay to get on-- especially the committees that play a role in regulating big-money industries, like Agriculture, the Military Industrial Complex, Heal ...
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Republicans pit national security against raising taxes on wealthy

Source: Daily Kos

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." —Warren Buffett So what it really comes down to is whether Republicans are more committed to national defense or to Grover Norqu ...
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Mid-century heritage helps keep Palm Springs contemporary: Hume

Source: Toronto.com

PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.—The past may be a foreign country, but it’s one that’s still inhabited. We’re well beyond the point where the 1950s and ’60s have become historic eras in their own right, though they seem uncomforta ...
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“If You Ever Wonder What a Deployment Is Like, Go to Prison”

Source: Time Magazine

Some soldiers get along, and others don’t. It’s the latter that make for the most interesting tales when they speak of their time at war. Army Major Ryan Ussery is a logistician – the guy who keeps the beans, bullets and boots coming to the tro ...
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