NFL protests highlight Defense Department’s status as second biggest advertiser, inadvertently The old saw says, “There are two sides to every story.” You can’t scan a news site or watch television for five minutes without bumping into an “NFL player protest” or “national anthem” story. The other side of the story? The status of the […]
“Buy-in” follows speaking the language, and buy-in accepts only cash Local and state law enforcement agencies in the United States employ over one million people. The Department of Defense, about two million. Every single one earns every single penny of their paychecks from taxes on the American people. The amount in those paychecks is thus […]
Exaltation of military and police tightly woven into U.S. daily life The September 11, 2001 attacks against targets in the United States and the government’s reaction to it harmed our country in myriad ways, and that harm has spread, morphed, and changed us as citizens, sometimes profoundly. With its tendency to seep into everyday lives […]