Cowards and Militarists

Good Morning. A few new items today. Cue up the Sousa.

• When a society is no longer exclusively and vigilantly civil, its claim to be a civilized society, let alone a civilizing one, is in peril. Other countries have been discovering that about the United States . We’re discovering it at home, too, every time a police shield is flashed with the presumptive power of an M-16 burst. See "America's March Toward a Military State."
  

• The Senate folds on an anti-war resolution. See "Cowards."
  

• He's a Sixth Amendment thug. See "Henry Stimson, a Lousy Pentagon Lawyer, Thankfully Resigns."
  

• Had a Snickers bar lately? Feeling woozily homophobic? See "Those Superbowl Ads Again."
  

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