History as Prologue

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Media’s memory tested as Supreme Court revisits Voting Rights Act

Dec 3, 2012

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Mark Thomas

in Civil Rights, Government

“Don’t worry about it.” Those familiar with the early morning events of December 7, 1941, are familiar with this regrettable phrase. When Lieutenant Kermit Tyler dismissed an inexperienced radar operator’s vague report of unidentified aircraft approaching Hawaii on that morning, the response was not unreasonable. However, the failure to consider the overall possibilities of that…
Herbert Spencer’s Supreme Court Revenge

Jul 12, 2012

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by

Mark Thomas

in Civil Rights, Government

In siding with neither his fellow conservatives, nor the more liberal members of the Supreme Court in his opinion upholding the a key element of the affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts took aim at one of the two most problematic parts of the U.S. Constitutional as viewed by contemporary conservatives. That ominous, deciding…