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Jesse Helms Died…
Jesse Helms - the famous, über-conservative, former US senator from North Carolina - passed away this morning at 86 years of age. Ironic, as it is Independence day and now we’re free from yet another suppressive influence. [The] Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, [...]
Continue reading...Liberals Love the United States, Too: A Note for the Fourth of July (Reprise)
3. July 2008
I’m never going to enjoy a Toby Keith song about America, or demand that my neighbors "love or leave" this country. It’s unlikely that I will ever refer to an American media outlet as traitorous, or demand that we build a fenced wall between the United States and Mexico. I don’t believe that, this, or [...]
Continue reading...Senator Baucus: Ahead of the Curve on Health Care? I Think He’s Already Struck Out
11. May 2008
Senator Baucus certainly deserves credit for one thing. Being able to make this remark to a reporter about increasing access to health care without bursting into laughter must have taken a remarkable degree of self-control: “I want the Finance Committee to be ready, to be ahead of the curve,” he said. “That’s why I’ve begun hearings, [...]
Continue reading...Mildred Loving, Dead at 68. Marriage Discrimination Lives On.
6. May 2008
I read this morning that Mildred Loving, a part of the married couple that challenged Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws, died over the weekend, at the age of 68. Their case, decided by the Supreme Court over 40 years ago, seems hard to imagine today. Laws restricting marriage based on race seem so unimaginably wrong, a part [...]
Continue reading...Random Drug Testing for Students? What About the School’s Leadership?
20. April 2008
It makes sense that an Orwellian proposal would involve some delightful double speak to accompany it. As Whitefish High School considers a proposal to conduct drug tests on all students involved in extra-curricular activities, the proposal’s defenders don’t want you to get the wrong idea: it’s not a violation of rights, it’s an opportunity: On the [...]
Continue reading...A Great Read About Airline Security
29. December 2007
Patrick Smith, writing for the New York Times, has one of the best critiques of the current airline security regime I have read: In the end, I’m not sure which is more troubling, the inanity of the existing regulations, or the average American’s acceptance of them and willingness to be humiliated. These wasteful and tedious protocols [...]
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