hitting you up with the good stuff
I lied, here is my final post.
(Source: mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours)
Entering my AP U.S. Gov class in August of last year, I felt pretty good about my knowledge of how government works. As we covered topics ranging from political parties to the media to the office of the president, I had enough general knowlege that all I had to study were the smaller points and technical definitions.
There was one topic, however, that I found mystifying: our judicial system.
Congress is more unpopular that I was in middle school. It’s polarized, gridlocked, and uncompromising. Surely, there must be some way to fix it.
One clear morning on May 3, 2009, residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, noticed an odd-looking man sitting in a parking lot in front of a local chiropractor’s clinic with what appeared to be a refrigerator box. Over the course of the morning, the man removed from the box one poster, a roll of twine, a roll of duct tape, and 35 large cottontail rabbits. He spent approximately one hour using twine to make harnesses for the rabbits. He then flattened the refrigerator box, and using more twine and duct tape, attached it the rabbits. According to witnesses, at this time the rabbits were in a calm, even “trance-like” state.
Yesterday I watched Makers: Women Who Make America, a three-part program by PBS, and I cannot recommend it enough. Part one, The Awakening, is an energized, thoughtful look at the evolution of feminism and women in America from the 1950s housewife to 1970s radical women’s liberation groups. I found it interesting to see how the struggles of women 40 to 60 years ago are similar to what women are experiencing today.
Context: Grinnell-Newburg School District v. John Doe is a hypothetical Supreme Court case in which I am an extremely underqualified hypothetical Supreme Court justice.
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On Wednesday, March 6, Senator Rand Paul filibustered the Senate confirmation of John Brennen as Director of the CIA in order to bring attention to the U.S. drone policy. Specifically, he wanted to clarify whether or not the President can kill an American citizen on American soil. He said in his opening remarks that “no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.”
Rand Paul’s 12+ hour filibuster about drones gets a succinct 43-word response.
Meanwhile, we have the transcript from the first seven hours of Paul’s filibuster, and that alone takes up over 100 pages.
Short and sweet(?)
I don’t remember any of you fellow Republicans coming down here and saying President Bush was going to kill anyone with a drone. But we had a drone program back then … so what is it that’s got you so spun up now?
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