“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose,” a Bob Dylan lyric doesn’t mean what it says. He meant to say: When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. But that isn’t true. It sounds good, but the truth is when you have nothing, we have nothing. There is nothing positive about it. It made me think […]
So, in oral argument today in the Supreme Court, Justice Kavanaugh asked, if I live in a violent area, why shouldn’t I be able to carry a concealed weapon to protect myself? So, if I live in a non-violent area, it’s not ok to carry a concealed weapon? No! you can carry a concealed weapon no matter where you live […]
I wrote a blog a few months ago that I reviewed September 29, 2021. The title of the blog is “there is no other way.” I mistakenly say that six people died because of the insurrection, including Brian Sickland, a Capital police officer. But Brian Siskland didn’t die on January 6, 2021. He died a day later from natural causes, […]
On August 29, 2021, a Reaper drone launched a Hellfire missile that killed ten Afghan citizens, including seven children. On 9/1/2021, General Miley says at least one of the killed was an ISK terrorist, although innocent Afghanis may have died in the explosion. On 9/10/2021, the New York Times reports that the evidence suggests there was no bomb in the […]
I wrote a blog that embraced the troop drawdown in Iraq, a war illegally conceived, I believed. I also wrote that we should leave Afghanistan; I now believe I was wrong about leaving Afghanistan. The philosopher Immanuel Kant coined the term “a moral imperative.” A moral imperative is a course of action without a plausible alternative. When we invaded Afghanistan, […]
It is apparent now. Donald Trump ordered American troops to leave Afghanistan. So, when Joe Biden became president, I thought he would reverse course and keep them there; so, when he continued the policy of his predecessor, my instinct said, “that’s weird, why would he do that”? Because he’s steeped in the past? I thought he would reverse the tariffs […]