The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Many Trayvon’s More? Civics is study of how we govern ourselves. Can we agree that we govern ourselves through our Constitution, our laws, customs, popular culture, and habits, and how all of these things interact to create our way of life? Let’s call the analysis of that interaction connecting the dots. You were left with …
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Not only is the cost noteworthy but it appears that there are attempts now to “lock in” contractors as a permanent element of the total force. Latest Estimate Pegs Cost of Wars at Nearly $5 Trillion Naomi LaChance @ The Intercept The total U.S. budgetary cost of war since 2001 is $4.79 trillion, according to …
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Susanne M. Schafer of Associated Press offers a useful perspective on how Army recruits are changing and how the Army is changing to accommodate lower levels of knowledge about what used to be “basic.” Fewer orders, more coaching: Army rookies learn to fire guns As gun ownership drops among young Americans and the Army trains …
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Obesity in the Army About a third of American adults are considered obese, having a Body Mass Index greater than 30 (BMI is calculated using height and weight), and 18% of American teenagers are considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2010, a group of retired military leaders warned that …
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Telling Off The President Mary McGrory, The Washington Post, May 19, 1992 Speaking truth to power, once the province of courageous Old Testament prophets, is becoming the custom of the country. Just about everyone George Bush meets these days tells him off. Bush asked for this by his clumsy partisan response to the upheaval that …
Soldiers, Students, Workers The Washington Post, May 2, 1989 The approach of a new century has a way of focusing our attention on even the most ignored problems. We want to “clean up our act” by the year 2000 in a host of ways. None is more important than producing competence in the work place. …
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1986 Speech: Army Days San Francisco, CA Armies are not inherently disciplined, nor responsive to the will of the people in whose name they purport to act. Armies are not innately well led, nor representative of the societies from which they spring, nor humane in the treatment of those, within or without their ranks, subject …
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