Outside of a riot situation, she probably would have got a suspended sentence. In the middle of widespread rioting, the judiciary will hand down exemplary sentences. (View Post)

Most of these once poverty-stricken nations, are now low to high middle income nations. Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama, would have seen that as a good thing, and as beneficial to US interests… (View Post)

Those who know only their own side of the argument know not the half of it. (View Post)

Life was not better for working class people in 1967 than it is today. Many manufacturing jobs (and jobs in coal mining), were dangerous and nasty. (View Post)

The notion that all parties can benefit from trade, not just economically, but socially, by reducing the number of failed states, the level of conflict, and the poverty that is a cause of conflict, i… (View Post)