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Missing in Action
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 10.16.2001
One month after terrorists murdered 5,000 Americans, alarmist stories are already beginning to appear about the costs of increasing national security. “State, Local Security Costs Skyrocketing,” headlined the Sacramento Bee. The California Highway Patrol has spent an additional $6.5 million since September 11, $2 million in new spending is required to secure dams and power plants, $2.3 million more for police in Los Angeles, and $2.5 million to boost security at Sacramento International Airport alone.
Greatest Generation Redux
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 10.11.2001
For a while now we have pondered the late-in-coming celebration of “the greatest generation.” “Late-in-coming” because the baby boomers of the 1960s’ “youth movement” proudly asserted that they were the greatest generation ever to grace the land of America. Further, the Establishment, and many of their parents, rushed to affirm this proclamation. Time magazine in 1967 went as far as to say that the youth movement “will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could enrich the ‘empty society’.”
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