Apologists for militarism, particularly liberal Democrats, justify those who enlist in America’s murderous military by saying that many soldiers come from parts of the country where good jobs are hard to come by. It’s time to point out that the real act of heroism is personal sacrifice rather than killing innocent people overseas for a slightly better paycheck and benefits.
The estimated total cost of the US war against Afghanistan is now running $13 trillion, enough to pay off all debts of all Americans. Why didn’t the CIA, which the media trusts implicitly these days, warn us that we’d lose after spending all that money and destroying hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides?
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is flirting with a Ross Perot-style independent run for the presidency in 2020. He self-described centrist sounds more like a Republican, complaining that the country can’t afford big-ticket progressive ideas like Medicare For All or free public college tuition. But the figures clearly show we can. After all, we just spent $13 trillion to invade and get defeated in Afghanistan!
Logging on to a website used to be a simple task: enter your username and password. Now the need to keep hackers out has made logging on so difficult one wonders whether it’s worth it at all.
Online video of right-wing students from Covington, Kentucky appearing to mock a Native American protester went viral, prompting outrage that later turned out to have been at least somewhat unjustified. Social media is a natural conduit for what the Chinese call “human flesh hunting,” Internet vigilantism that goes awry, The solution, of course, is to wait for all the facts to come out. But who has time for that?
The Supreme Court has approved of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from the military—a profession in which people are paid to kill and maim people who mean them no harm.
All day long the citizens of an anxious nation are checking this and that. Maybe it’s time to give up hope.
In the most recent but not likely to be the last case of deplatforming, InfoWars and Alex Jones have been removed from Roku following complaints from viewers. It’s their legal right to do so but censorship is worrisome because it usually falls harder on the Left than the Right.
Kamala Harris is positioning herself as a progressive prosecutor, whatever that is. But the former California attorney general’s record reveals that she’s actually tougher on innocent people than she is on crime, and that she’s never meant a reform she didn’t hate.
If you’re running for the Democratic presidential nomination, you have to sound like a progressive to get primary voters on your side and govern and vote like a right-winger so the centrist establishment will tolerate you.
