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Russia attacked our sovereignty and continues to do so.  That is the unanimous conclusion of the nation’s intelligence agencies.  Semantic wrangling about which legal terms apply or don’t is half a century out of date.  Cyber warfare is warfare.  A...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 3 comments on Tue Feb 13, 2018 at 02:45 PM PST with 1 Recommend
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”    The man who wrote those words...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 4 comments on Fri Feb 02, 2018 at 08:55 AM PST with 4 Recommends
I was angry when Democrats voted to end the shutdown.  By the next morning, though, I noticed that knowledgeable people were making compelling arguments that Democrats had gotten what they could.(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)  Some of the posts on this site offered...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 16 comments on Mon Jan 29, 2018 at 08:24 AM PST with 18 Recommends
Our very own Very Stable Genius wants to avoid a government shut down because the “worst thing is what happens to our military,” and we “just about never needed our military more than now.”  Never.  A spokesman says that the Very Stable Genius “wants...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 10 comments on Thu Jan 18, 2018 at 11:59 AM PST with 9 Recommends
Wright Patman was a Texas Democrat.  He represented Texarkana from 1929 to 1976.  That durability was due, in part, to campaign literature like a flier titled, “Here Is What Our Democratic ...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 6 comments on Tue Jan 09, 2018 at 07:00 AM PST with 9 Recommends
Some people dream of a cure for cancer.  Some dream of eliminating poverty.  Others dream of world peace.  The Republican Speaker of the House dreams of taking health care away from poor people.  That is modern conservatism. Once, conservatism had a...
by JoeCarl
Comment Count 8 comments on Sat Jan 06, 2018 at 09:42 AM PST with 8 Recommends