By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
Listing the main ways that society appears to treat men less fairly than women requires only a little more reflection to complete. a. Men are overrepresented at the bottom levels of society. They do most of the nasty, dangerous work, are much more likely to be...
By now Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" ought to be such a cliche that it would hardly need to be said. And yet, it must be said -- often -- because many still haven't gotten the word. If the state is the adversary of liberty, as it...
https://youtu.be/VJqy-qP5ZtU Listing the main ways that society appears to treat men less fairly than women requires only a little more reflection to complete. Topping the list: a. Men are overrepresented at the bottom levels of society. They do most of the nasty,...
The EU’s return to the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna appears to have borne fruit, as after just four days they have submitted what they are calling the final text that tackled everything.
There’s much to despise about economic sanctions. Aside from the fundamental immorality of making innocent individuals suffer for the sins of governments, sanctions almost universally fail to achieve the goals of those who inflict them. Nonetheless, sanctions have...
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
On COI #190, Kyle Anzalone discusses Congress closing in on passing a near $800 billion funding bill for the Pentagon as it fails in every category. A report from the Pentagon inspector general found the agency has failed to make much progress tackling its sexual...
Inflation as a weapon of war. According to local economists who spoke to MintPress, the reasons behind the collapse of Yemen’s economy and its currency are many and varied but the expansionary monetary policy that has been taken by Saudi Arabia is one of the key...
Yeah, you just love government, don't you? You'd give them your daughter's life to rape and discard for the greater good of killing innocent people and then losing anyway in countries that never attacked us across the Middle East and Africa. It's only fair!
Esper denies it but the document is real. Update: Haha. Now they say it was just a draft letter is all.
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Netanyahu and Pompeo are close to finalizing a National Defense Pact between the US and Israel that was created by The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). JINSA is the think tank founded by Michael Ledeen. ...
I just finished watching Django Unchained this weekend and I highly recommend it. One of the things that helped me enjoy it fully is the idea that anything a slave does to those who enslave him, even up to killing the enslavers and the enablers of the enslavers, is...
Reuters #keepyourbubbletopupmrpresident
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