Destroying Education and Critical Thinking Key To the Success of Authoritarian Governments
It’s not often I quote U.S. military commanders, but this statement from now-deposed Defense Secretary James Mattis is excellent.
It’s interesting how many data points are aligning in U.S. politics, starting with the destruction of public education, including content from this article:
• Making broad cuts to public education and the surrounding programs that help students learn. In President Trump’s budget, the administration zeroed out the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which provides $1.2 billion to districts across the country for after-school programs that support students and working families. This funding serves more than 1.6 million students participating in these programs. (more…)
Everywhere we go we hear this joyous refrain: The U.S. economy is doing great! And it’s true if you’re wealthy, heavily invested in the stock market, which was up ~30% last year. Just be glad you’re not a 
Later today, the Trump administration will announce that it has loosened restrictions on the use of landmines, rolling back an Obama-era policy that restricted the use of landmines to the Korean Peninsula. The new policy is expected to allow the U.S. to use landmines anywhere in the world.
It’s said that at the center of every good joke there is a core truth. Here, as we see the Trump legal team struggling with one pathetic defense tactic after another, it appears that their answer lies in more excuses, not better ones. It’s like, “We lose money on every sale, but we make it up on volume.”
This article describes how the U.S. 
No, it’s almost the precise opposite. Geneticist David Suzuki reminds us that, in science, most of our ideas will ultimately prove to be incorrect.
Well, let’s put all this into perspective. Trump partially paid for this by kicking 700K hungry people off food stamps. “Partially” is a key word there, however; it saved a whopping $1.32 billion, or 0.11% of war spending.
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I had the good fortune to sit next to 
A reader, apparently a Trump supporter, sent me the meme here, and wrote, “I’m beginning to question his (Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s) loyalties,” spawning the following conversation: 
