“Critics have compared the move to the disastrous redistribution of land in neighbouring Zimbabwe, which was often accompanied by violence and left farms neglected.”
“A full cast of veterans, contractors, doctors, and spouses testify about symptoms and their ongoing battle with the federal bureaucracy, which, as of today, has yet to acknowledge a direct connection between severe health injuries and the air around the pits.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-awful-legacy-of-iraqs-burn-pits/
“Army regulations ban the use of so-called CBD oil or any products derived from marijuana, so some soldiers are using synthetic replacement oil.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Army-60-hospitalizations-2-deaths-blamed-on-12542767.php
“The Polish government’s attempt to ban the usage of a historically incorrect term has backfired in the most spectacular way. The country is now in a deep diplomatic crisis, and the expression they wanted to ban has seen a renaissance.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/polish-death-camps-and-censorships-unintended-consequences/
“This final exit scan had a different feel. It was not about the airline. It was not about stopping terrorism and other mischief. It is purely about the possibility that the right of a person to exit could be denied for any reason the government happens to dream up.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/blog/exit-scans-are-here
“From Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. has engaged in brutal and violent abuse toward detainees suspected of terrorism — despite the fact that such brutality and abuse is what may have motivated many of those detainees to begin with.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/12/torture-terrorists-guantanamo-abu-ghraib/
“The Trump Administration is pushing for a $4.4 trillion budget for fiscal year 2019 that would add $7 trillion to the already unsustainable federal deficit in order to sustain America’s military empire abroad and dramatically expand the police state here at home. Trump also wants American taxpayers to cover the cost of building that infamous border wall. Truly, Trump may turn out to be, as policy analyst Stan Collender warned, ‘the biggest deficit- and debt-increasing president of all time.'”
“The last president to hike the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax was Bill Clinton in 1993, a year before Democrats lost both chambers of Congress in a crushing midterm defeat.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/trump-gas-tax-409647
“The debt has increased 123 percent over the past decade as the nation sought to break free of the financial crisis and the tepid growth that followed. Total debt is now nearly 105 percent of gross domestic product, just shy of its highest level since World War II. The most recent Congressional Budget Office projections have the trajectory leading to a debt-to-GDP ratio of 150 percent by 2047, well past the point where financial crises typically occur. In addition, the budget deficit is likely to swell, with the CBO projecting an increase from 2.9 percent of GDP in 2017 to 9.8 percent in 2047.”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/us-security-chief-calls-national-debt-a-dire-threat.html
“The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 permanently erases those spending limits, while authorizing far more spending than would ever have been considered while the Tea Party movement held sufficient political influence to stop it. As a result, the U.S. government’s budget deficits for 2018 and 2019 appear set to grow the levels that the Congressional Budget Office had projected for its more realistic alternative fiscal scenario following President Obama’s spending proposals back in 2010.”
Read more: http://www.mygovcost.org/2018/02/12/the-end-of-the-tea-party/