Tag: U.S. military

Keynesian economics, as it applies to driving GDP growth with government spending, only applies to military spending it seems.  Funny that.  That’s not how I learned it.  But surely that must be true since the defense industry is claiming it to be true.  

The United States is dismantling the last of it’s giant B53 thermonuclear bombs.  This 9 megaton monstrosity, the size of a mini-van was developed in the late 1950s and put into service in 1962.  It was carried aboard the B-52 Stratofortress during the Cold War.

I remember not long ago when Republican U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona was known as a maverick who was not unwilling to stand up against his party to stand for what he believed was right. I remember John McCain the fighter pilot, war hero, and deal maker, but the…

It’s sad to see Sen. John McCain, who once said he wasn’t necessarily opposed to repealing the U.S military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy banning gays from serving openly in our nation’s armed forces, reduced to being the U.S. Senate’s cranky bigot: McCain first led the Republican filibuster against the…

Over at Salon.com, there’s an eye-opening article by Matt Kennard about the influx of neo-Nazis into the U.S. Army. For his article, Kennard interviewed Forrest Fogarty, an avowed neo-Nazi and Iraq War veteran, who related his story of how he was accepted into the U.S. Army (emphasis mine): Army regulations…