Dr. Bernard Brodie, military thinker, author, and UCLA professor, offered that “war without a political purpose is killing for killing’s sake,” an aphorism demonstrated most cruelly in World War I. To this day, students of the Great War cannot pin down its cause, noting that the carnage of Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele and two or three dozen [...]

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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Military, Politics, Video at 4:34 PM UTC

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     President Bush has sent to Congress the first budget in world history proposing expenditures exceeding $3 trillion in a twelve-month period. If you are like me, numbers with that many zeros are relatively meaningless: $1,000,000,000,000 = $1 trillion. Yawn. So, here’s another way to understand Federal spending. Every second of every day, the Feds disperse $100,000, give [...]

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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Economics, Military at 3:16 PM UTC

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