“The constitution [of 1787] … rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. … Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man;[...]
Archive for July 18th, 2021
Sanctions and accountability are necessary
It takes time for deliberative processes to play out, but signs point to judges cracking down on Trump lawyers who filed baseless lawsuits and lied to courts (read story here), and that’s a good and necessary thing. Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, among others, should not come out [...]
A short lesson in federal supremacy
Florida Governor Death Vader’s anti-mask, anti-vaccine policies are squarely at odds with the pro-survival approach championed by the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the conflict came to a head in a battle over cruise ship regulations in a federal courtroom where a Bush-appointe[...]
Are you in Leonardo da Vinci’s family tree?
Probably not, unless you’ve got some Italian blood in your veins, and even then still probably not. If you’re 1 of 14 currently living people, you might be. Researchers wanted to know so badly they dug up what are thought to be his remains to get a DNA sample, then went hunting for desce[...]
July 18th, 2021 - 12:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
GOP “auditor” revives a false assertion about Arizona ballots
Tell people what they want to believe, and they’ll believe it. From day one, the Arizona Senate GOP’s sham “audit” of 2020 Maricopa ballots was always about trying to give legitimacy for false election conspiracy theories. To conduct the “audit,” they passed over [...]