Sunday, June 29, 2014
Inequality Is Not Inevitable - NYTimes.com
"AN insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the fissures that had come to define the American economic landscape. How did this “shining city on a hill” become the advanced country with the greatest level of inequality?
One stream of the extraordinary discussion set in motion by Thomas Piketty’s timely, important book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” has settled on the idea that violent extremes of wealth and income are inherent to capitalism. In this scheme, we should view the decades after World War II — a period of rapidly falling inequality — as an aberration."
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Black voters cross party lines in Mississippi In Mississippi, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, when volunteers converged on the state to register African Americans to vote, comes the same week that black voters of Mississippi are in the news for crossing party lines to vote in the Republican primary for U.S. senate. Civil rights activist Julian Bond joins to discuss with Melissa Harris-Perry.
Black voters cross party lines in Mississippi In Mississippi, the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, when volunteers converged on the state to register African Americans to vote, comes the same week that black voters of Mississippi are in the news for crossing party lines to vote in the Republican primary for U.S. senate. Civil rights activist Julian Bond joins to discuss with Melissa Harris-Perry.
Here Comes the Judge, in Cuffs - NYTimes.com
"As lawyers used smartphones to snap pictures of the morning spectacle, Judge Lynn D. Rosenthal became the third Broward County judge in six months to be arrested on charges of driving under the influence. A colleague, Judge Gisele Pollack, had been suspended five days earlier after getting arrested on a D.U.I. charge while already on leave for taking the bench intoxicated — twice."
Friday, June 27, 2014
"Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressmen Steve Israel (D-Huntington) and Peter King (R-Seaford) and Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced their opposition to the news that the Administration is considering a former Grumman site to house the influx of unaccompanied children who are entering U.S. borders illegally. The site is near a New York State Superfund site. They have been in touch with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the General Services Administration (GSA) to express their concern and disapproval.
Rep. Israel said, “Unaccompanied children coming into our borders is a humanitarian crisis, but housing them in an industrial warehouse near a Superfund site is not a humanitarian solution. I will continue working with Rep. King and County Executive Mangano to ensure that HHS and GSA rethink their consideration of this site.”
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Congress should make itself heard about U.S. troops in Iraq - The Washington Post
The week after that meeting in the Cabinet Room, Ford spoke at Tulane University: “We, of course, are saddened indeed by the events in Indochina. But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world. . . . Some tend to feel that if we do not succeed in everything everywhere, then we have succeeded in nothing anywhere. I reject categorically such polarized thinking. We can and we should help others to help themselves. But the fate of responsible men and women everywhere, in the final decision, rests in their own hands, not in ours.”
Congress should make itself heard about U.S. troops in Iraq - The Washington Post
Congress should make itself heard about U.S. troops in Iraq - The Washington Post
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
"Venita Pinckney grew up around Catholic schools and churches, and she thought she knew about nuns. Then a small, gray-haired sister named Teresa Fitzgerald came to fish her out of a Harlem crack house. Ms. Pinckney had been a drug addict for 23 years, a dealer and a prostitute, and had lost both of her children to foster care. She was high at the time.
“She looked past all that,” Ms. Pinckney said of the nun. “She must’ve hugged me for two hours.”
Sister Tesa, as she is known, helped Ms. Pinckney get into a residential drug program, then gave her a job and a room and helped her get her children back."
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Thursday, June 05, 2014
Hall v. Florida: The Supreme Court rules against Florida’s rigid IQ standard.
The Supreme Court ruled 12 years ago that it is unconstitutional for a state to execute a person who is “mentally retarded” (a term that has since gone out of date). But that wasn’t enough to put an end to the practice. States were left to determine for themselves who is too intellectually disabled to put to death, and the Florida courts, for example, have insisted on using a flat IQ score that scientists said made no sense. Today the Supreme Court told these states to stop using their unscientific standard, making it a bit harder for them to execute people with marginal IQs.
Hall v. Florida: The Supreme Court rules against Florida’s rigid IQ standard.
Hall v. Florida: The Supreme Court rules against Florida’s rigid IQ standard.
Cyberbullying law legal challenge: New York court hears appeal.
The New York State Court of Appeals will hear a challenge today to a local cyberbullying law that was used to charge a high-school student as an adult for posting disparaging messages (including sexual material) anonymously on Facebook. From the Wall Street Journal:
Cyberbullying law legal challenge: New York court hears appeal.
Cyberbullying law legal challenge: New York court hears appeal.
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
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