A student posted something on his Instagram page that seemed to indicate that there are more deaths from police interactions with the public than when George Floyd was killed. Is this the case? I researched the statistics, and this is what I found.
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John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia. His views are his own. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is JohnTures2.
A month ago, the United States and Ukraine signed a Rare Earth Minerals Deal. It’s a pact that if it passes over objections from Putin supporters in Congress, could bring an end to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Here’s how that would work.
When I was younger, going to Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas on Armed Forces Day was an important occasion. Veterans Day and Memorial Day were revered in a city where the military presence was strong. Recent politicians have called for replacing these solemn occasions with holidays celebrating American victories in World War I and World War II. To do that would be to undermine what makes the Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day special.
Nearly every sports fan in America, and many worldwide know the story of “Rudy” about an undersized kid whose dream it is to play Notre Dame football. He endures just about every obstacle to make it on the field for one dramatic moment at the end of a Fighting Irish game against Georgia Tech to make a tackle, and is carried off the field.
As a teen, I remember hearing a story, perhaps in some Dale Carnegie book, about a pair of youngsters who thought they could earn some extra spending money. They tallied up all of their chores and little tasks they had done around the house and outdoors, figured out how much time they spent on these, calculated the monetary value of their work, determined the minimum wage, and left a note for their mother before leaving for school with the bill for their labor.
As I write this, my alma mater, Florida State University, is under attack. At least one active shooter is going through campus. I hear “the Bellamy Building,” and I know it well. It’s where my graduate student office was. It was the place where I taught my classes.
The inclusion of a magazine editor on what our foreign policy team thought was a secure channel, the strong possibility that classified material was posted on this private chat, and the ever-changing stories and competing claims by those involved shows why our U.S. Congress needs to do its job, and investigate what happened. Otherwise, our government will continue to make such blunders, making it easier for our adversaries to find out exactly what we’re doing.
Texas Democrat Al Green of Houston got the most attention of his lengthy congressional career by shaking up the State of the Union to call attention to proposed cuts to Medicaid. He was censured by Congress, but now people are talking about this health program.
As Russia and the United States prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there’s a notable absence: Ukraine, which was purposely sidelined from negotiations. History shows that’s a really bad idea, which contributed to losses in Vietnam and Afghanistan.