Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, wants to control who can say — and hear — what. He’s asked the federal government to cancel one permit and deny another, both for “alt-right” demonstrations at Portland’s Shrunk Plaza. His excuse: Portland is “in mourning”...
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Book Review: The Imperial Cruise
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James D. Bradley This is a book that perhaps comes into the category of "revisionist history," not because Bradley invents some obscure series of events or manipulates facts in a manner to convince the reader...
Budgets, Taxes, Deficits and Debt; or, Mulvaney versus the Math
“What you see in this budget is exactly what the president ran on,” US Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in late February. The president’s overall budget proposal is still under wraps and...
The Immigration Enforcement Police State is Here
February 7: Muhammad Ali, Jr., returning to the US from a speaking engagement in Jamaica, is detained for two hours at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and questioned about his name and religious beliefs. February 22: Passengers disembarking...
The Second Amendment and “Weapons of War”
“Put simply,” writes Judge Robert King of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, “we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war.” In Kolbe v. Hogan, the court upheld Maryland’s ban on “assault weapons,” also known as rifles that look scary to...
The Sheriff of Asia – Bougainville 1975-1997
The North Solomons or Bougainville was given its modern name in 1768 when a French explorer named the already inhabited mountainous tropical island paradise after himself. It was not until 1899 in the last days of the classical Imperial European colony grab, that...
The Bombs
The Bombs It is perhaps with a degree of historical poetry that on the cusp of an apparent Iranian nuclear deal that Japan should celebrate the 70th anniversary of the destruction of two of its cities at the hands of the United States. The very...
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