We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.--John Adams
Astros behind. I never thought they would be scored on.
Mom really cut her hand.
A report alleges that Auston Matthews and a group of friends attempted to open a car door as a security officer sat inside completing paperwork at 2 a.m. local time. This led to a confrontation between Matthews' group and the guard during which Matthews allegedly pulled down his pants.
In 1983 on this day, a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. A few minutes after that bomb went off, a second bomber drove into the basement of the nearby French paratroopers’ barracks, killing 58 more people. Four months after the bombing, American forces left Lebanon without retaliating.
Turks and Kurds and Us
So we have now declared we are pulling back in Syria--not bringing guys home, mind you, just letting the Turks and the Russians loose a little in Syria by moving 50 guys around. This is going to be hard on our old friends, the Kurds. The Turks are already moving against them.
But of course, Turkey is our ally, too. Just like the Kurds. But Turkey is NATO. NATO! Turkey hosts American nuclear weapons. It has a huge number of armed military personnel and they are dangerous. Who do we owe more to? And if we have conflicting loyalties, how do we bridge them?
In 2012, then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that Americans were indebted to their Turkish allies and would not allow Syria to become a haven for Kurdish terrorists. Read that again. If abandoning the Kurds is bad for American credibility among our allies today, why wasn’t our similar abandonment in the 2012 promises to Turkey equally undermining?
For that matter, what about the American vaunted "Line in the sand" in Syria? How about that for undermining credibility?
Really, isn't this shameless mendacious behavior just part and parcel of the disreputable practice of politics and how America has forfeited on its revolutionary promise?
Astros behind. I never thought they would be scored on.
Mom really cut her hand.
The more freedom we have, the more there will be very feminine and masculine subcultures too, and this might explain a great deal of recent political developments — in particular the campus identity politics movement and the alt-right. The former is heavily female, while the latter is overwhelmingly male — in fact, not just male, but populated by men who seem to have difficulties with women…Single women tend to be politically very liberal, voting for the Democrats in huge numbers, while in Britain Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has overwhelming support among young women, the vast majority of whom are unmarried. Generally speaking, the culture wars are far more intense between women because women have to make more sacrifices — whether children or career — and this inevitably influences their worldview. Political liberalism, with its strong relationship between the state and the individual, favors single women, while conservatism, with its emphasis on monogamy and support for the nuclear family, speaks to their married equivalents. And while married men with children are also more conservative than single ones, the difference is not as pronounced.So what happens when fewer people get married and, indeed, spend time with the opposite sex? Gender-segregated politics it seems.--Ed West
On September 19, the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), a 36-year-old organization of academics specializing in the history, culture, and literature of England before the Norman Conquest, hastily voted to change its name. Indeed, the vote was so hasty that the organization had no idea what its new name ought to be (it is soliciting suggestions from members). Nonetheless, the majority of its 600-odd members were certain of one thing: they no longer wanted to be associated with the words “Anglo-Saxon.”
A report alleges that Auston Matthews and a group of friends attempted to open a car door as a security officer sat inside completing paperwork at 2 a.m. local time. This led to a confrontation between Matthews' group and the guard during which Matthews allegedly pulled down his pants.
In 1983 on this day, a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with 2,000 pounds of explosives into a U.S. Marine Corps barracks at the Beirut International Airport. The explosion killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. A few minutes after that bomb went off, a second bomber drove into the basement of the nearby French paratroopers’ barracks, killing 58 more people. Four months after the bombing, American forces left Lebanon without retaliating.
Turks and Kurds and Us
So we have now declared we are pulling back in Syria--not bringing guys home, mind you, just letting the Turks and the Russians loose a little in Syria by moving 50 guys around. This is going to be hard on our old friends, the Kurds. The Turks are already moving against them.
But of course, Turkey is our ally, too. Just like the Kurds. But Turkey is NATO. NATO! Turkey hosts American nuclear weapons. It has a huge number of armed military personnel and they are dangerous. Who do we owe more to? And if we have conflicting loyalties, how do we bridge them?
In 2012, then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that Americans were indebted to their Turkish allies and would not allow Syria to become a haven for Kurdish terrorists. Read that again. If abandoning the Kurds is bad for American credibility among our allies today, why wasn’t our similar abandonment in the 2012 promises to Turkey equally undermining?
For that matter, what about the American vaunted "Line in the sand" in Syria? How about that for undermining credibility?
Really, isn't this shameless mendacious behavior just part and parcel of the disreputable practice of politics and how America has forfeited on its revolutionary promise?
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