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How about a Support Our Troops tax?

For the first time in our nation’s history, we went to war AND cut taxes. I propose a Support Our Troops Tax. Figure out the past, present and future costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and set a tax to pay the tab now instead of passing it on to our kids and [...]
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“We live in the United States of Amnesia”

Gore Vidal said those words in the documentary Why We Fight. To me, it is the punchline to the question: What do you call the country that ignores the lessons of history and is doomed to repeat them? Vidal was explaining why we don’t understand the animosity that people in the Mideast have for the [...]
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