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...Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq and back the mission there. But I do not support the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard...
...Because it's cheaper to use Guard and Reserve troops. The Department of Defense does not have to provide housing, medical care and base facilities for the families of reservists as it does with active-duty troops. The shortage of regular troops is not an accident; it is a conscious decision to save money. I have served in Iraq and support the mission there. But I do not back the use of reservists, and I object to the impact it has had on small towns. They are losing fire fighters and police who are members of the Guard...
...These noble failures suggest that self-conscious attempts at creating community simply don't work. Our divisions are too profound. True expressions of our common humanity are more spontaneous, if infrequent. And they generally emerge in response to two kinds of phenomena: disaster and discovery...
Ironically, while commercial hip-hop enjoyed tremendous financial success, it was gangsta and socially-conscious rap that dominated the media’s attention. In the beginning, gangsta rap’s obsession with reporting the conditions of ghetto life to outsiders granted America a great service: NWA’s “F--- Tha Police” exposed police brutality, while Public Enemy brazenly dissed Ronald Reagan by exposing the other side of his policies. This tradition reached its peak in the mid-1990s, when Nas’ Illmatic, the Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready...
With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...