I’m not sure what you’ve gotta do to get your picture on our money. It helps to be a dead president; 9 of the people on the 12 denominations of U.S. paper currency are dead presidents. Two others are dead treasury secretaries. The odd man out is Benjamin Franklin, whose biggest claim to [...]
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Why does ANYONE want to live there? The Maps Part I
South Carolina, with what may be the worst record of any state in the union, will celebrate the civil war this weekend. Slavery, as horrible as it was elsewhere in the South, reached its peak in South Carolina where there were intentional efforts to breed a better slave by crossing African sl[...]
December 10th, 2013 - 4:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Racist States: South Carolina Part 3.: Mandela was not an American!
Sheriff Rick Clark of Pickens County*, S.C., refused to lower his flag for Mandela, who “did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!!” The post did not comment on whether the sheriff was referring to the flags of the Union of the Confederacy. [...]
June 19th, 2012 - 8:39 am § in Misc.
The Courage to Say No to Fanatic Elected Officials
New York – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel says he’s repudiating a Hungarian award he received in 2004 because top officials from Budapest recently attended a ceremony for a Nazi sympathizer. I am not Elie Wiesel. None the less, I remember the complicity of millions of Germans in th[...]
October 23rd, 2022 - 7:09 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Why a genuinely “originalist” Supreme Court would uphold affirmative action
The Supreme Court’s conservatives claim to be “originalists,” a doctrine which holds that the Constitution means what its authors intended. This term, the court will revisit affirmative action, and lawyers opposed to the practice will argue the 14th Amendment requires college admis[...]
June 21st, 2022 - 12:42 pm § in Misc.
Facts about Juneteenth
“Juneteenth” is a new federal holiday commemorating the issuance of General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865, enforcing emancipation in Texas. Making this day a federal holiday passed the Senate unanimously, but 14 House members, all of them Republicans, voted against it. They are: Reps. Mo [...]
November 20th, 2021 - 1:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Why it’s not safe to fly
This is why: “The accidental discharge of a passenger’s weapon in a security area of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport caused widespread panic Saturday afternoon, prompting a brief halt of departing flights over the busy travel weekend,” CNN reported on November 20, [...]
The Prophet Orders Muslims to Protect Jews and Christians
Covenant of Protection from Prophet Muhammad Commands Muslims to Protect Jews and Christians Until the End of Time: Special to the Jewish Post Pave the Way Foundation (PTWF) has identified and brought to light an original document from the Prophet Muhammad, indicating that Muslims must protect the [...]
July 7th, 2015 - 11:18 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: What is not missing from this stamp?
Its not a stamp, does show namesakes of Jackson, including[...]
May 19th, 2011 - 8:28 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Two UW faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,113 and the total n[...]