Columbine and Parkland
Since Columbine we have made changes in the high school environment that we hoped would prevent future massacres. No one would say they have worked.
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Public debt, ethics, and the future
Quick comparison: why does Puerto Rico carry so much more public debt than non-U. S. Caribbean islands? $70 billion is …
F-35 fighter: you’ll buy it, and you’ll like it
Good heavens, I thought the Japanese were intelligent about deployment of their military resources. Why would they buy an airplane like the F-35?
Justification for drone strikes
We have discovered the state does not need formal pronouncements to tell its citizens they do not have protections they might think they have.
Robert Mueller throws another document over the wall
Thank you, Robert Mueller, for turning something up. I suppose we ought to thank the Russkies, too, for showing us how vulnerable we are to low-rent finaglers. One of the Russkies even texted, in the middle of their operations, we’ve been busted by the FBI! That’s a great piece of evidence! The finagler texts in the clear that our own security agency busted them, and we learn four years later the FBI told no one about it! Good work, boys and girls.
Hypotheses related to 9/11
To find the truth, test falsifiable hypotheses against all evidence you have available. That process leads you to new questions, new hypotheses, new tests, new evidence, and new conclusions. This powerful process moves you away from ignorance and toward the truth incrementally.
Here’s how you play defense
Related article Bill Belichick and Malcolm Butler: coach declines to explain his mistake
Jerry Sandusky Memorial Field at Penn State: respect and disrespect under law
Government secrecy propagates pervasive falsehood and deceit. Secrecy removes respect for all those who practice it.
Trust paradox
If You Think The Nunes Memo Will ‘Discredit’ FBI and DOJ, You Haven’t Been Paying Attention For the Past 50 Years
Outcomes of Violence: Podcast
Amusing form of government
Politics is a realm of beliefs, opinion, vision, premonition, duplicity, dissimulation, chicanery, persuasion, perception, and force. It is form of warfare, or a type of conflict that substitutes for war.
Ed Haslam and Cyril Wecht
Two video recordings on Kennedy’s murder.
