Some of you may be confused about what is involved in waging war on Christmas.
I'm going to try and clear up this confusion.
#1) Waging war and killing people on Christmas Day is a good thing.
For example, Washington crossing the Deleware on Christmas night in order to slaughter drunk mercenaries is a legendary example of the Christmas spirit in America.
"Remove justice and what are states but gangs of bandits on a large scale? And what
are bandit gangs but kingdoms in miniature?"
- Augustine
"The wild beasts that roam over Italy have every one of them a cave or lair to lurk in; but the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy the common air and light, indeed, but nothing else; houseless and homeless they wander about with their wives and children.
Paul Ryan's poverty adviser is 77-year old Bob Woodson, a former social worker and civil rights activist who has advised conservatives on poverty policy for decades. He has some some strong opinions on the causes of poverty.
The lies that caused the disastrous invasion of Iraq didn't start on 9/11, and they've never ended.
One overlooked item from the the release of the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report in 2014 was that the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons visited a CIA black site in Afghanistan in 2002 to conduct an "assessment".
It has become hard not to notice that when it comes to the issue of immigration, no one talks about the elephant in the room.
Most of the political debate around immigration involves racism, culture, language, even (ironically) nativism.
Pretty much everything other than the core issue of contention: jobs.
It's interesting to hear moderates and even liberals mimic many of the same talking points as right-wing conservatives when the subject of the United Nations is broached.
Meanwhile, NATO continues to grow and expand despite its original purpose having long ago expired, and few bother to question why.
It seems obvious that one organization is getting the short-end of the stick, and I'd like to set the record straight.
Quick Background
Forty-five years ago today there was a peace march in New York City by about 1,000 high school and college students. Just four day earlier college kids had been shot down by the National Guard at Kent State for protesting an illegal escalation of the Vietnam War by President Nixon.
48 years ago the first UnThanksgiving Day happened.
Oh, it wasn't called that then. Nor was it called that the following year. You see, it wasn't about Thanksgiving at all. It was about the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and federal policy for native Americans.
