SCOTUS Overstepping?
That’s what I think in light of the flapdoodle at SCOTUS over recess appointments: WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seemed inclined to rein in the president’s power to make “recess appointments” when the...
View ArticleWhy Are We Here?
That’s not a philosophic question – it’s the raison d’ etre for The Agonist. John Adams’s answer: “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My...
View ArticlePete Seeger: 1919-2014
NYT on Seeger’s death There was never any doubt which side Pete Seeger was on. “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so...
View ArticleACLU to File Lawsuit on Behalf of 250,000,000 Americans
From the wishful thinking department: In light of a study which indicated congress is not responsive to the people of the United States, but is only responsible to the Wealth and Corporations, the ACLU...
View ArticleYou don’t have to give thanks.
I believe in being grateful for the universe. It is one of the few entities with a shelf life beyond that of what can be bought, sold, or stolen. Moreover, our obscene privilege as Westerners is...
View ArticleLAPD shoots man with pocket knife. 15-year-old killed in MO hit-and-run hate...
not go into brain-freeze or a national seizure at the pace of militarized police killings, racial/religious/you-name-it hatred, and the racialized rightward whirlpool of the GOP’s appeal to fearful...
View ArticleOverdue Justice for Ferguson, Missouri
For related articles by Numerian on the Ferguson racial crisis, see America’s Police on Trial, and The Cycle of Fear in Ferguson, Missouri, both posted on the jehoshuathebook.com website. ————————————...
View ArticleFBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades
Washington Post, By Spencer S. Hsu, April 18 The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all...
View Article‘Mind-Blowing Abuse of Power’: Walmart Spied on Workers With FBI, Lockheed...
Common Dreams, By Nadia Prupis, November 25 Retail giant Walmart enlisted the help of a private military contractor and the FBI to spy on workers pushing for a $15 hourly wage and organizing Black...
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