Though we’re regularly encouraged to support the troops, rarely do Americans take the time to actually listen to veterans themselves.
Because war is ostensibly an emergency, independent thought is “temporarily” left on the back burner. But what if war never ended?
The US seemingly has endless war, conflict, and invasion. In 2010 the US accounted for a staggering 41% of worldwide military spending.
A California federal judge will hear the case against Jared Loughner, who faces multiple charges related to the shooting rampage in Tuscon, Arizona which left an Arizona federal judge dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded.
Arizona allows anyone concerned about the mental health of another to report them to authorities to be evaluated, even as they continue to slash their mental health budget. Many other states including California are of course doing the same.
The highly-politicized reaction to the Tucson massacre by professional partisans in the Democratic and Republican parties reveals the abject moral bankruptcy that has come to define our politics under the reigning two-party state.
In what the London Telegraph has correctly described as an “unseemly rush to blame Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and Republicans for murder in Arizona,” progressive journalists and bloggers have waged an aggressive campaign to blame<
