During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that, if elected president, he would cut neither Medicare nor Medicaid. [See video below.] Today, however, his administration proposed a federal budget that would cut Medicare by $845 billion, and Medicaid by $241 billion, while giving the Pentagon more than requested, and allocating $8.6 billion for the […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, broken campaign promises, Department of Education, distraction, Donald Trump, health care, infanticide, Medicaid, Medicare, murder of children, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, social safety net, tax cuts |
By Mark | November 11, 2014
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
By Mark | November 11, 2013
I don’t dislike the military. I think we, as a nation, spend far too much on it, and I think that we’d ultimately be better served by investing a great deal of that money on education, alternative energy research and any number of other things instead, but, in general, I don’t have an issue with […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Observations, Other | Also tagged 1918, Armistice Day, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, military, November 11, Veterans' Day, WWI, WWII |
The ACLU today announced that they would be launching a broad investigation into the militarization of America’s domestic police forces. As of this evening, ACLU affiliates in 23 states have signed on to assist in the investigation, and it’s thought that more will join shortly, assigning investigators and filing Freedom of Information Act requests with […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACLU, Aiyana Jones, Anaheim, Battlestar Galactica, CATO Institute, Detroit, Disneyland, Eric Holder, FOIA, GPS device, Houston, investigative reporting, Kara Dansky, Koch brothers, Miami, military, Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act, military industrial complex, Obama, police investigations, police state, police tactics, Posse Comitatus Act, predator drones, Ronald Reagan, SWAT, targeted assault, targeted killings, the militarization of the police, tracking, urban warfare, war on drugs, War on Terror, William Adama |