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benghazi: boxes of rain

The road to 10,000 armed soldiers begins with a single step; a mere budgetary line charge and adjustment, a few supply planes and a small dedicated group of fighters who have to be nurtured through the embryonic stage to be … Continue reading

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voltaire banking on the philosopher kings: wall street shuffle

“He taught us to be free.” Although he was an absolutist, not especially reasonable, and anything but a revolutionary, Voltaire fought absolutism, embodies the Age of Reason, and made the Revolution inevitable. He died at the dawn of the industrial … Continue reading

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