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I think we should refuse to burn any of that Arizona coal in power plants, or buy power from anyone who does. Also, Colorado River water goes through Arizona, we shouldn't accept that, either!
Poll: Was the L.A. City Council right to pass a boycott of Arizona?
City Hall did it: The Los Angeles City Council, protesting Arizona's tough crackdown on illegal immigration, voted Wednesday to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state. Council members argued that a new Arizona law, which will make it a state crime t...
I think it's more like: either you are a Democrat, or you pretend to be, or you are ostracized by all "right-thinking people."
Nothing much ever changes.
Pretty Much What I Like And Dislike About TED In One Go
The TED conference--started as one Big Deal, and snarled the traffic in Monterey when I was studying there, and infiltrated my mailbox and now there are TEDs everywhere--has some great lectures. This one right here (via Instapundit) is a pretty neat lecture. Creative ideas about creative stuff...
Of course, if one wants to find real Federal horror for blacks, it isn't the mild Plessey one needs to read, but the truly vile Cruikshank.
Basically Cruikshank said that if the KKK wanted to lynch blacks and the state wanted to deprive blacks of most all civil rights, the federal government had no ability to intervene, the Bill of Rights did not apply, and the 14th Amendment was of little effect.
And yet, the District of Columbia used Cruikshank as precedent in fighting for their gun ban in Heller.
Why Black Americans Think That the Federal Government is Our Friend
While hanging out yesterday at Ace's yesterday as he was flogging racists, I happened to mention that many if not most black Americans view the federal government as beneficial and friendly. Some other commenters were surprised and I was surprised at their surprise, because it isn't difficult t...
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