Posts Tagged ‘military’

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Mar24

Same strokes for different folks

by Duane on March 24th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Posted In: Headlines, Politics, Remember

“This is the first election cycle since 1994 in which Democrats (including PACs, candidates and committees) have received more in defense donations than Republicans, collecting 52 percent of all contributions from the sector in the 2008 cycle. In the last presidential cycle, 2004, the defense sector gave 62 percent of its total $17.9 million in [...]

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Aug02

Who’s In Charge?

by Duane on August 2nd, 2010 at 10:38 am
Posted In: Headlines, Politics, World

Those with the money, that’s who.
Just over a year ago, I wrote a post on how mega-industries like defense and pharmaceutical companies are helping to shape political

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Jul21

I Guess These Web Counters Have Become Passé

by Duane on July 21st, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Posted In: Commentary, Economy, Politics

Do you remember some years ago here in blogtown, USA when it was the thing to put a counter on your site to show spending in Iraq? Or how about the big debate over publishing pictures of soldiers in coffins as they were being unloaded off of military planes. What happened to all of that?

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Feb23

Diversity Perversity

by Duane on February 23rd, 2010 at 8:34 am
Posted In: Headlines

“In searching for explanations for why superiors did not move to revoke Hasan’s security clearances or expel him from the Army, the report portrays colleagues and superiors as possibly reluctant to lose one of the Army’s few Muslim mental health specialists.
The report concludes that because the Army had attracted only one Muslim psychiatrist in addition [...]

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Aug19

The Black Soldier Has Been Sheehan-ized

by Duane on August 19th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Posted In: Commentary, Politics, The Media

“The ‘anti-war’ ‘left’ was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the ‘anti-Republican War’ movement.” (Cindy Sheehan response to Byron York’s column “For the left, war without Bush is not war at all“)
This was a very popular picture in the blogosphere under Bush.
Some random headlines and commentary we strangely don’t hear about [...]

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May25

Thankful

by Duane on May 25th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Posted In: Commentary, Our Expression, Remember, The Brothas

While I will always be thankful to all of our men and women in uniform for their service to our country, I am especially thankful for all the Black soldiers in the past who fought for a country that did not believe in them. Imagine that. Men who had to use separate bathrooms, look down [...]

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