Blurring the Lines for “Greater Efficiencies”
The thing about this financial mess that haunts me is the fact it’s part of the “bigger is better” blather we’ve heard before Remember last decade when the telecommunications bills were being...
View ArticleDon’t Keep “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
The military wants people, presumably of integrity and character, to defend the country, but they wanted some of these people to essentially lie - TO THEM, no less - about who they are?
View ArticleSlavery By Another Name
Bill Moyers: "Across the South, from Texas and Louisiana to the Carolinas, thousands of freed black Americans simply were arrested, often on trumped up charges, and coerced into forced labor. And that...
View ArticleA Taste of Freedom in Post-War Europe
After my father died in August 2000, we went through his things, of course. One of the items he held onto was an article from a 1946 issue of Newsweek, Racial: Maedchen and Negro, about black soldiers...
View ArticleThe chief spy, who loves household appliances
As someone who finds the EZ Pass on the Thruway disconcerting, Petraus' enthusiasm does not fill me with confidence.
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