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Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Truth Ain't Funny If You're a Dittohead
Sunday, May 03, 2009
What Makes Justice Scalia A Really Bad Judge
What Makes Justice Scalia A Really Bad Judge “This year, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made public comments that seemingly may have questioned the need for more protection of private information, Reidenberg assigned the same project. Except this time Scalia was the subject, the prof explains to the ABA Journal in a telephone interview.
His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia's home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.
And, as Scalia himself made clear in a statement to Above the Law, he isn't happy about the invasion of his privacy:”
But, like other bad jurists, Scalia is unwilling to admit to a constitutional right of privacy because it doesn't mention the word. The philosophy of strict constructionism blinds him to the implication forcefully set out in the fourth and fifth amendments that make no rational sense without the concept of privacy. Also, the same philosophy requires him to ignore the fact that the constitution set forth rules regulating slavery, and how slaves were to be counted for purpose of congressional representation, without ever using the words slave or slavery.
Slaves and slavery existed. The constitution regulated them by implication. Yet Justice Scalia can't admitthat implication makes privacy a constitutional right. The philosophy that sees the law as something divorced from human practice and behavior probably explains some pof the bizarre opinions he's written as much as his briliant ones. Unfortunately, brilliant philosophy cab give you phlogiston instead of thermodynamics, epicycles instead of orbits, wonderful explication of things that never were, and a rage to with brilliant wit disprove and therefor silence simple self-evident truths.
The brilliantly wrong are the worst people possible to place in positionss of authority. The brilliant, bold but badly mistaken Justice Scalia is in position for life.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/googling_justic.html
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Restoring the Palimpsest until March 26, 2009
We share some bad habits of medieval monks. We decide a record isn't sll thst importsnt, scrub the parchment clean, then write our current, comforting interpretation on the page we insist is not just blank now, but has always been a tabula rasa.
Luckily, there are means of examination that reveal the original record and scholars like Dr. John Hope Franklin who patiently uncover the real past and set us on the path to our true destiny.
Dr. Franklin taught us to look and the looking expanded the scope of history to people who were written out and abandoned to the margins even when they were major players. He enabled us to see how far we've actually come and how far we yet must go.
He will be missed, because he cannot be replaced.
Alfred C. Ingram
Conceptual Design & Imaging
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Saturday, March 07, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
GRIT TV
Starting this week TheNation.com is live streaming GRIT TV with Laura Flanders daily, Monday to Thursday. Hosted by longtime Nation contributor Laura Flanders, GRIT TV is a daily public affairs and news program featuring discussions of politics, media, news and culture, often with Nation contributors as guests. GRIT airs from 2:00 to 4:00pm EST Mondays through Thursdays. In today's episode, Nation contributor Robert Pollin discusses the economic recovery bill, while healthcare expert Trudy Lieberman explores the prospects for heath care reform in the wake of the Daschle dustup
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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