Good Lord! What a lot of trouble to prove in political economy that two and two make four; and if you succeed in doing so, people cry, "It is so clear that it is boring." Then they vote as if you had never proved anything at all.
June 19, 2020 Seven Days in May
Like many of his counterparts in the mainstream press, Los Angeles Times senior editorial writer Michael McGough is aglow over the apology issued by Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for having participated in President Trump’s photo-op in which military troops used tear gas on peaceful protestors in the nation’s capital in order to clear ...
Government Standards
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Standards are important. For example: steel. According to ASTM International (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials), ASTM’s ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 1
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The phrase “regime change wars” has, of late, taken on profound meaning and stoked massive controversy. When either Donald Trump, or the current...
Engineering a Race War
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Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized...