My favorite story about John Quincy Adams is that he would swam naked in the Potomac River every morning at 5:00 AM.
One day a reporter named Anne Royall, who couldn't get him to sit for an interview, found his clothes on the riverbank.
Royall sat on them and refused to move until he answered her questions.
The President, stuck neck-deep in the river, gave her the interview.
Americans working a 60 hour week to barely scrape by while entire families of illegals make $100,000 per year simply for being illegal with a couple anchor babies:
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Enemy: The Germans’ War, pt. 3 - The Fighting Man
Millions of German soldiers return home to find the Bolshevik plague pouring out of Russia into Europe. They were only too happy to have someone else to fight. (Link below)
Most of the Iliad is about how Achilles was throwing the Trojan War because Agamemnon insulted him publicly
One of the earliest works outlining political realities places personal enmity as the central driver
This is why Machiavelli is explicit about how important it is to only insult the honor of people if you absolutely must and kill them if you do
Also, likely one of the reasons Christ instructs us to forgive our personal enemies
Sitting down?
1970 - USA
White Population: 88%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 6%
2020 - USA
White Population: 62%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 59%
Today - USA
White Population: 56%
Immigrant Households on Welfare: 61%
But don’t complain about it because that’s racist.
@BobMurphyEcon Feels like originally it meant they wanted a lot of crime walked free unless egregious. Now it seems like two people care and the rest just want to get out of there.
At 10 AM, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference and announced that the Pentagon has “lost track of” $2.3 trillion, which is “unaccounted for.”
He goes on to highlight a number of other glaring inefficiencies in the Department of Defense.