Posse Comitatus

Boots on the Ground in D.C.

Boots on the Ground in D.C. Photo credit above: Battle of New Orleans, January 1815, National Archives It’s a written law that keeps boots off the ground in the US. It’s called the Posse Comitatus Act. The act or law is a post-Civil War act which prevents the president from using troops or boots on the ground, so to speak, on domestic streets. For law enforcement in the US, we have police at different levels…

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Is the US kaput?

It’s All Greek to Me

Photo credit: Caricature of a Fat Cat, Wikipedia It’s All Greek to Me The cemetery on the island of Mykonos in the Mediterranean Sea is a kind of oasis amidst the largely barren landscape of the island’s hills and white homes. The sea is everywhere, as is the warmth. It was 37 years ago. The cemetery seemed to have lots of some kind of coniferous trees that lent uncommon green to the otherwise bleached, but…

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