Now that you can make guns at home with your 3D printer, Ronald Reagan’s 1988 ban on undetectable plastic firearms is about to expire. Does the GOP care? No.
We aren’t at war with, and never were at war with, Afghanistan. We were/are at war with an emotion. ‘Terror.’
United States four-star General John Allen left his command in Afghanistan calling it optimistic, and is confident that victory is at hand.
LaPierre’s speech offered a look into the mindset of the wider conservative movement that is trapped in a bubble of black-and-white,
Have we forgotten the waning years of the last GOP White House, when the economy was in free fall and the future looked so bleak?
Maybe it’s time to let Senator McCain know that it’s no longer 2004 and that exploiting national security as a dog whistle to the very people whose children fight our wars will just result in greater deficits and cases of military suicides.
Nothing says heroic like sitting in a chair in an air conditioned room shooting at people on the other side of the world.
Everyone remembers the Republicans/Conservative chant that Democrats are soft on the ‘war on terror,’ soft on this…soft on that…so now that the President has decided to remind us that he is playing for keeps.
Flash forward to 2008 and the GOP once again relied on its misguided belief that it is the king of killing terrorists. The GOP plan of attack on then-candidate Barack Obama was simple: pound him relentlessly as soft on terrorism, weak on foreign policy and antagonistic toward the military.
Muammar Qaddafi and Osama bin Laden killed more Americans than any other terrorist backers in history. Before 9/11, Qaddafi was #1, only to be outdone by Osama bin Laden, whom President Obama hunted to extinction.
Forget about Republican or Democratic ideologies and just look at the facts of where things stand in this country right now. The richest 0.1 % of Americans own more wealth than the lower 50% combined. The richest 5% has more wealth than the lower 90% combined. And 20% of Americans own over 85% of the country’s total wealth.
It is the bombshell of such fantastic proportions that my ears are ringing…a feat that only the largest amounts of Vodka can achieve!! Ex-Bush Official Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson has said clearly in an interview with Russian Media that he is willing to testify in a court against former bosses George W Bush and Dick Cheney.
I believe the true legacy of 9/11 can be summed up with these words: ‘We have every right, and indeed an obligation, to fight evil; but in fighting evil, we must not let ourselves become evil.’
After ten years, what’s the easiest way to review, clearly and briefly, the events around Sept. 11, 2011? Perhaps the best way is to imagine you had to explain Sept. 11, 2001 to a child.
Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world to live, with mass killings caused by drug cartels. These mass killings did not happen before the Bush administration pressured the Mexican government to start a similar war on drugs as the United States began under the Nixon administration.
