…fireworks at police. After agents from ICE’s sister agency, CBP, showed up in what the Times called a large, military-style vehicle, protesters “swarmed the vehicle and yelled and threw snowballs…

…criticism on Capitol Hill, caution from his military advisers, and chaos in the stock market. In the absence of meaningful insight, many are converging on an explanation that emphasizes their…

…has been a target of US economic sanctions for more than 60 years, and currently has other harmful sanctions in place. And the US could still use military force to…

…noted, the US military budget is overblown and needs to be cut. The U.S. Spends More On Defense than Next Top 14 Countries Combined Wiki List of countries by military…

…for the military . . . $1 trillion. Nobody has seen anything like it.” I’m kidding. Nobody seriously expected that Trump would cut the military. How will he fund his…

…Mother Jones article says the military is hardly in dire straits when it comes to funding its big-ticket items. “The services capitalized on funding to modernize their forces, especially the…

…Mr. Boot contempt of the US constitution implying US military force should have occupied Georgia to make it better somehow. Should have been as successful as Afghanistan today. Mr. Boot…

…the passage of a law (the so-called “sequester”) that cuts otherwise slated increases to the military and also cuts a variety of domestic non-military expenditures. The Republicans also joined with…

…this post. It concerns Section 1032, the mandatory military detention provision I described–and bewailed–in my earlier post. I want to give a good faith effort in this post to imagine…

…military spending even while demanding cuts elsewhere); David Broder, The War Recovery?, Washington Post, Oct. 31, 2010 (apparently suggesting war, and its huge military expenditures, as a way out of…