Some call it the "medicalization of society." It's been going on for some time now. A couple of seemingly peripheral things happened in the early...
A former CIA & State Dept. intell. analyst named Mel Goodman had his "National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism" published in 2013. A...
Mort Sahl wrote that the Am. Communist Party was made up of about 800 old men from Lower East Side & 1,000 FBI agents.
More specifically, Am. corporatchiks, which peddled the EU (& Eurozone) ideas after the USSR collapsed. The EU & the recruitment of old Soviet...
I truly believe we are seeing the end of our 2-party politics. Trump is a carny-barker; HiC jettisoned any principles she had for these few months...
Anyone old enough here to remember this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4XUbENGaiY
Supposedly, during the 200+ yr of the Crusades (from c. 1095), marauding Arabs would load up on hash, then go out & slash up those Christian...
In an earlier incarnation, Kasich was a congressman & part of that aborted "Contract w/ America" in the mid-90s, under the tutelage of Dick Armey....
Lotsa people in Russia, speshully older folks, miss the USSR too.
A political science professor @UPenn, John Diiulio (was for a few months in 2001 Bush's chief of the faith-based initiatives program), wrote ages...
Some years back, maybe 'round 2006, I happened to catch, quite by channel surfing, an interview on CSPAN's Book Notes betw. a retired U.S. Army...
"Success" in the private sector is vastly overrated. Fiorina did @HP what she was brought in to do: downsize. When the company foundered, she was...
That's about as close to correct as possible: Marx questioned the long-term existence of an economy of owners of means of production v. the...
http://wikisum.com/w/Meehl:_The_selfish_voter_paradox_and_the_thrown-away_vote_argument Summary of an article published in 1977 by University of...
Well, the Constitution allows for periodic constitutional conventions. There was on in 1876, in Phila., w/ elected delegates. They got drunk & did...
Calvin Coolidge was sleepy & boring, wasn't a surgeon, & actually won an election. But then that was almost a hunnert years ago.
The "refugee problem" over there's been going on for decades. Millions of refugees from Iraq, Syria have lived on the Turkish borders w/ those...
I'm old enough to remember when US of A was "meddling" in France's nuke program (c. 1961-2). Don't recall particulars, but I think the US of A was...
Y'know, this Iran nuke summit got so much daily press coverage here in US of A that I wondered whether this sham wasn't press-driven: to remind us...
"As soon as people stop pretending that it is still like it was in 1860 " I suspect this closer to fact than fiction. We live in a...
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