…war, at least we have the revenues to pay for the war. If the potential tax take discourages us from going to war, then we have less war, which I…

…enter the land war in strength until 1918, suffered one-third of one percent (0.37%) of its population killed or wounded. Simply put, World War I is a thorough and devastating…

…as it happens, is at issue in the other culture-wars blockbuster Supreme Court case this term, Fisher v. The University of Texas, a.k.a., the big affirmative-action-in-state-university-admissions-policy case. John Roberts will…

…didn’t horrify me that he said, “No.” I asked, “Do you know ‘The Christmas Song?’” Again, a “No.” I said, “That’s the one that starts, ‘Chestnuts roasting on an open…

…with religious dogma and slogans in the context of political grabs for attention. So the endless claims that the US wages a “war on Christmas” when holiday songs replace religious…

…Sonia Sotomayor showed them how. It was Sotomayor’s lonely concurrence in U.S. v Jones, a case involving warrantless use of a GPS tracker on a suspect’s car, that the George…

It’s A Wonderful Life: Faux Populism Somewhere I never saw a full version of this classic, Its a Wonderful Life, but here it is on Christmas Eve, an official Christmas…

…no longer difficult to identify a cause. The report identifies two Gulf War “neurotoxic” exposures that “are causally associated with Gulf War illness.” The first is the ingestion of pyridostigmine…

…who collectively said there was not a defined mission for going to war, that we would lose many American lives, and that we’d be there for a generation. Kos even…

…economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy. The whole post can be read at The Big Picture….