My great-uncle was an accountant who responded to my father’s question about how to best figure taxes, “I go to the line that says ‘Amount Owed’ and I write ‘0’ and figure backwards.” Hmmm. We might not think much of his humor, but creati...
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My great-uncle was an accountant who responded to my father’s question about how to best figure taxes, “I go to the line that says ‘Amount Owed’ and I write ‘0’ and figure backwards.” Hmmm. We might not think much of his humor, but creati...
It was just 237 years ago that our foreparents declared independence and, in that declaration, noted that:Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experi...
So, now that the Turkish government, under the fiats of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip "Facebook is the worst menace to society" Erdogan, is running down nonviolent protesters and shooting tear gas cannisters into their heads and permanently blinding them...
The United States fancies itself as the shining light for freedom, as the power on Earth for good, spreading democracy. How does this factcheck?We spent much of the 19th century spreading US hegemony in several directions, starting with owning slaves a...
The US media has been especially emetic recently in their coverage of the sequester. While cuts to human services, education, health care, and environmental protection are huge, most of the stories are all about how this will hurt the military, will th...
We now see John Kerry peddling the old brand, War-Lovers Kool-Aid, in his pronouncements that he is going to provide the violent insurgents in Syria with body armor, armored vehicles, military training and other aid. This is how the US operates against...
In the early days of Arab Spring the struggles in Tunisia, Egypt, and then Yemen, Bahrain and Syria were all essentially nonviolent. They were also characterized as such by mainstream media worldwide and by observing academic specialists. Indeed, Dr. C...
We are saved--so our politicians tell us--from a plunge off the fiscal cliff. In all reports, however, it is mentioned that President Obama settled for a slice of what he claimed to be after, which was to raise taxes on those whose income is more than ...
It is now long long past time to repeal the Second Amendment. It serves evil, not good, violence, not peace, hatred, not love. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution is a relic of a time when the citizens accepted their general powerlessness and s...
The Just War doctrine has a long, greasy, sordid, sold-out, rationalizing history, starting in the East, possibly, with the Mahabharata, the Indian epic, which launched and contained such debates. Just War started in the western canon not with St. Aug...
