“Feel any different?”
One of my goals for 2019 is to write at least two blog articles each week. To accomplish this and another (read the comics I buy in a timely fashion), I decided to write about the five books I read each week that I love and the five that I did not get. Another reason …
Justice Douglas published An Almanac of Liberty in 1954. And on December 6, he recalled the 1937 Breedlove v. Suttles decision that upheld a state poll tax. Twelve years later, he wrote the majority decision that held all poll taxes as unconstitutional. Currently, people work harder to create roadblocks to voting than to register them. Imagine the long lines …
When you open up your Smartphone, since no one buys a newspaper, the headlines contain a daily reminder that the press remains an enemy of the people. Justice Douglas wrote, “Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation, yet tolerance is sometimes pressed to the limits.” The …
A Saudi dissent journalist was murdered, dismembered and destroyed in a Saudi consulate in Turkey. Our government, including a hard line Secretary of State, gaslights us. For those who don’t know the movie Gaslight, a husband slowly persuades his wife that she was going insane. Our government wants to pretend this is all in our minds …
historically, the Supreme Court looked more like its current makeup. And we must remind ourselves that the Court that Douglas sat on stands out in its views of personal liberty.
I turned it off after he questioned Sen. Klobuchar if she had ever blacked out after drinking. Petulant men never look good. Sen. Graham had already looked unhinged and took control for the Republicans away from the female prosecutor they brought in to make them look friendly to an alleged sexual assault victim. But once …
I dreamed of sitting on the Supreme Court. When I went to American University for its Washington Semester program, everyone in the room wanted to become President. I wanted to become Earl Warren. I had previously taken a survey of constitutional law class at Ripon College with my roommate and a professor who taught it …
On September 19, 1796, President George Washington gave his farewell address. Washington warned the new nation of two concerns: tribalism and foreign affairs. With the new republic still grasping the Constitution, Washington begins by reminding the citizenry of its importance. He reminds them how important a federal government for all Americans remains. “[A]ll the parts …
Writer/Artist: Jeff LemirePublisher: Image ComicsPublished from March 2017 through August 2018 In his closing letter, Jeff Lemire wrote about how he thought that he would spend a lot of time in Royal City and that it could end up being a location he would pop in and out of for a very long time. Fourteen …