Anti-war Tax
The senator Carl Levin and the congress critter David Obey both want to add taxes to fund the war in Afghanistan, and presumably the one in Iraq, and any other war they come up with. John Murtha and Barney Frank seem to be agreeable to this idea. Of course, none of these cowardly scum is willing to have Congress declare war. I have a modest proposal, instead. There are companies that profit from these wars. Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), Halliburton, Boeing, Lockheed, Blackwater, General Electric, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) – the list goes on and on. Check the

We were soldiers once, and young
It is a very sad film in many ways. Families are torn apart by distance, wounds, and death. A war torn country where the local population has fought against an oppressive colonial empire, an even more militaristic and oppressive Japanese empire, and a corrupt government with USA military advisors faces a new challenge. Americans see, for the first time, a pitched battle in Vietnam, with USA troops victorious. At the end of the film, about four days of intense combat, the protagonist Harold Moore asks UPI reporter Joe Galloway to tell the American people what happened at the battle in Ia Drang valley in 1965. Sadly, the question of why those things happened never com

War is (Still) a Racket
Over seventy years ago, Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler wrote: War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of

So much for “Don’t be Evil”
Google gets in bed with big government. Hat tip, Tom Knapp and Rational Review/news.