Labeling a certain group “terrorists” may not sound like an important distinction. After all, we have laws that prohibit and punish threatening violence, and certainly committing it. Yet the laws we’ve passed over the last couple of decades concerning terrorism …
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A reader comments on the meme here: I think it comes from the notion that generally police are supposed to be the best of the best, the ones charged with protecting those who can not protect themselves. They have been …
If you were asked to name the single most despicable member of Trump’s cabinet, whom would you choose? Attorney General William Barr might be an obvious choice, insofar as he’s functioning essentially as the president’s private attorney, and has no …
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Richard Rohr is an American author, spiritual writer, and Franciscan friar, ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. PBS has called him “one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world.” It’s hard to know what to say about his words …
Yes, let’s institutionalize virtual political conventions. Reinvesting the monetary savings in public education, cleantech R&D, cancer research, debt reduction, stay-in-school programs, infrastructure, college scholarships, summer camps for the underprivileged, whatever. Just pick one. Or eleven. And yes, keep the jet …
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Franz Jägerstätter was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusal to fight for Nazi Germany. He was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. Two quotes …
The Marquis de Sade once mused, “What are all the agonies of everyone on Earth, compared to a single one of my pleasures?” That’s the level of criminal psychosis required to be the type of person Chomsky is discussing here. …
Gary Tulie writes: The UN issued a report criticising the US for allowing some of its citizens to live in such abject poverty that they had to live with open sewers in rural Alabama. When I searched for similar in …
Long-term 2GreenEnergy supporter Garry Tulie writes: If tough on crime works, how come the US has a massively higher prison population than the EU, and still has way higher levels of violent crime!
At left we see what could be accomplished with a wealth tax. Getting there is going to be a b****, however, given the current state of corruption in the United States and around the world. The wealthy and powerful, who …
