Posts Tagged ‘civil rights’
1943. There were no Civil Rights Acts. For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states. The world was at war. Israel didn’t exist. Everything ran on coal. That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election. Candidate Year Party W. Chapman Revercomb 1943 Republican Harley Kilgore 1946 Democrat [...]
Tags: 1946, capt and trade, chapman, civil rights, coal, democrat, harley kilgore, israel, Jay Rockefeller, jennings randolph, matthew neeley, revercomb, robery byrd, union, West Virginia, world war II
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Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100 And: Robert C. Byrd, a Pillar of the Senate, Dies at 92 Both opposed civil rights initially. Both converted to support civil rights. One was an outspoken member of the Ku Klux Klan. One was not. Wanna guess which was which? Oh, and one died a Democrat, [...]
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Sometime in 2007 or so, some people decided the US was too polarized. I’m not terribly sure that’s a bad thing. But, it became a political issue that the Democrats used to some success I suppose. Obama was going to fix that polarization problem. It was change you could believe in. His people didn’t listen. [...]
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First, the obvious: Per Eric Holder, the new hate crimes bill was not intended to protect everyone equally under the law. I got a problem with that. The ONLY intent of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to insure everyone is protected equally by the law. For the US Attorney General to [...]
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The Senate passed the DC Voting Rights Act. In order to get it passed, they gave an additional seat to Utah. Senator Joe Liberman was quite thrilled, as was Eleanor Holmes Norton. However, from a fiscally conervative standpoint, this is screwed up. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year [...]
Tags: big-brother, civil rights, DC Voting Rights Act, eleanor holmes norton, joe-liberman
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January 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Been reading that Obama is planning on naming Leon Panetta head of the CIA. A while back I did a series of posts on basically what happened when the security of the United States was wonked to death by people more interested in internal policies than doing what was necessary to protect us. Basically, the [...]
Tags: barack obama, CIA, civil rights, jamie-gorelick, janet-reno, leon panetta, National Security
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