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Golly, what the Pentagon spends on public relations! 0

Golly, what the Pentagon spends on public relations!

I’m reading Michael Hastings’ The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. He reports that during the Iraq War “the Pentagon had launched a searching, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul...

WA legislators propose standardized tax rates for all marijuana 0

WA legislators propose standardized tax rates for all marijuana

Two House Democrats introduced legislation today that would standardize tax rates for all sales of marijuana. Sponsored by Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48) and House Finance Committee Chair Reuven Carlyle (D-36), HB...

Should we call gun nuts "gun nuts"? 2

Should we call gun nuts "gun nuts"?

The minister at my local Unitarian Universalist church said in a sermon that left-leaning folks should stop calling gun-rights advocates names such as “gun nut” and “moron.” She said that it sure is tempting...

Rep. Adam Smith and military spending 1

Rep. Adam Smith and military spending

Washington’s Rep. Adam Smith of the 9th Congressional District is the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.  Smith figures prominently in the Jan 28 issue of the The New Yorker, in the...

Thomas Jefferson's opposition to standing armies 0

Thomas Jefferson's opposition to standing armies

“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from...