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Washington DC metro is full of unknown heroes who made incremental yet wholly uncelebrated improvements to American lives while working for Uncle Sam.
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So I take it Lavrov and his mistress are selling their London brownstone?
Pity, that.
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the media and other levers of power.
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but to confront dissent. “
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them. What’s different this time is stark: Los Angeles has not requested federal help; there is no insurrection, no judicial defiance, no statewide collapse. And yet, the California National Guard has been federalized unilaterally, and active-duty Marines are on standby—not to enforce rights
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for help or aimed at upholding constitutional rights against state resistance. In each case, the legal basis was clear: the Insurrection Act was invoked, governors were either complicit or overridden in the name of federal law, and the military’s role was to safeguard civil liberties, not suppress
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Michael Sellers:
“..Historically, when federal troops have been deployed domestically—whether to enforce desegregation in Little Rock (1957), protect civil rights marchers in Selma (1965), or restore order during the LA riots (1992)—those actions were either in direct response to a state's request
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…Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too. SD defends the Constitution.”