Saturday, May 19, 2018
Former U.S. Atty Andrew McCarthy for the score:
FBI director Comey and the Obama Justice Department applied a double standard in their handling of the Clinton-email and Trump–Russia investigations
If you or I had set up an unauthorized private communications system for official business for the patent purpose of defeating federal record-keeping and disclosure laws; if we had retained and transmitted thousands of classified emails on this non-secure system; if we had destroyed tens of thousands of government records; if we had carried out that destruction while those records were under subpoena; if we had lied to the FBI in our interview — well, we’d be writing this column from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth. Yet, in a feat of dizzying ratiocination, Director Comey explained that to prosecute Mrs. Clinton would be to hold her to a nitpicking, selective standard of justice not imposed on other Americans.
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Kim Strassel:
Was Trump’s Campaign ‘Set Up’?
At some point, the Russia investigation became political. How early was it?
On this day in 1954,
Wikipedia article
SUPREME COURT ISSUES DECISION IN BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
Source Article"In a major civil rights victory, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional. The historic decision, which brought an end to federal tolerance of racial segregation, specifically dealt with Linda Brown, a young African American girl who had been denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka, Kansas, because of the color of her skin.In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that “separate but equal” accommodations in railroad cars conformed to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. That ruling was used to justify segregating all public facilities, including elementary schools. However, in the case of Linda Brown, the white school she attempted to attend was far superior to her black alternative and miles closer to her home. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up Linda’s cause, and in 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka reached the Supreme Court. African American lawyer (and future Supreme Court justice) Thurgood Marshall led Brown’s legal team, and on May 17, 1954, the high court handed down its decision.In an opinion written by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the nation’s highest court ruled that not only was the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional in Linda’s case, it was unconstitutional in all cases because educational segregation stamped an inherent badge of inferiority on African American students. A year later, after hearing arguments on the implementation of their ruling, the Supreme Court published guidelines requiring public school systems to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”The Brown v. Board of Education decision served to greatly motivate the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately led to the abolishment of racial segregation in all public facilities and accommodations."
Wikipedia article
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Monday, May 14, 2018
Sunday, May 13, 2018
On this day in 1846,
U.S. DECLARES WAR ON MEXICO
On this day in 1846, the U.S. declared war on Mexico because of a dispute over the southern border of Texas. Most Whigs (later Republicans) opposed the war, including congressmen Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, while most Democrats, who represented the slave states, were in favor of the war because they wanted to acquire more land to expand slavery. This was the first war covered by independent journalists, who were mostly in favor of the war. The war lasted almost two years and was settled by establishing the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas, Mexico ceding New Mexico and California to the U.S., the U.S. paying Mexico $15,000,000, and the U.S. agreeing to resolve all claims of U.S. citizens against Mexico. Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, George Meade, James Longstreet, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson all fought on behalf of the U.S.
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