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Why the Great War Matters Today 0
- Culture
- November 12, 2018
1918. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That hour, that day, and that month brought an armistice to the First World War, a conflict that proved just the prelude to the bloodiest century in the history of humankind. November 11, 2018 marks the centennial of that armistice. That war and
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The Air Force’s $1,200 Air Coffee Cups Demonstrate Big Government at Its Best 0
- Economics
- November 12, 2018
The story of how the Air Force found a fifty-cent fix for its broken $1,200+ coffee cups is one for the “you’ve got to be kidding me” section in the volumes of examples for how the U.S. government manages to waste such massive amounts of money each year. That story begins in the summer of
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Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers 0
- History
- November 9, 2018
It was the sinking of a British boat by a German torpedo that began to push the United States toward entering World War I. For many Americans the attack on the ocean liner Lusitania in May 1915 and the subsequent death of an estimated 1,198 people including 128 Americans solidified the belief that Germany was
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‘Multiple Men’ Were ‘Ready to Take a Bullet For Any Single One of Us,’ Says Woman Who Survived California Shooting 0
- November 9, 2018
Multiple men reportedly put their bodies on the line to protect patrons at the club in California where a gunman entered Wednesday night, killing 12 and reportedly taking his own life. “While we were all dog-piled at the side, there were multiple men that got on their knees and pretty much blocked all of us
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Dutchman ‘Identifies’ as Young Man, Demands to Have 20 Years Taken Off Age 0
- Culture
- November 9, 2018
A 69-year-old Dutch man is crossing a new trans-identity frontier. Emile Ratelband, a colourful “positivity guru” (pictured above), has asked a court to turn his legal clock back 20 years so that he can be officially recognised as 49 years old. He told the judge that he did not feel comfortable with his age and
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Are We Becoming a Victimocracy?0
- Culture
- November 9, 2018
Most of us learned—or should have learned—in school that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. Therefore, we do not have direct rule by the demos, the “mob” of common people, but by elected representatives and leaders. Of course, some cynically deny that our nominal governments actually rule. Our “real” rulers, they usually
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