September 1, 2021

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

September 1, 2021

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

September 1, 2021

Slip-Slidin' Away

September 1, 2021

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

https://www.newsweek.com/videos-show-taliban-fighters-wearing-us-military-uniform-withdrawal-1624516

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Videos on social media show Taliban fighters wearing U.S. soldiers' uniforms inside Kabul airport, hours after the last U.S. troops departed Afghanistan, ending America's longest ever war.

The photos include Taliban fighters holding guns up while wearing American military uniform, as well as praying in the uniform and surrounding a helicopter.

A viral video appears to show Taliban fighters walking through a military aircraft hangar at Kabul Airport, inspecting Chinook helicopters, wearing U.S. military clothing and holding guns up. Chinook helicopters are among the U.S-made military equipment provided to the Afghan National Army.

September 1, 2021

Do we need a more "activist" Supreme Court, similar to the Earl Warren Court?

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Growing liberal with age, much of Warren’s decisions were still rooted in Progressive beliefs supported by the rule of common law. Warren viewed crime as mutually exclusive to poverty, education, social conditions, degradation, and standards of law enforcement. Warren gravitated away from the strict hand by which he formerly dealt with perpetrators. Instead, he believed crime could be ridden by improving the condition of cities and thus took into account the influential conditions violators lived within. After the reaction to Brown v. Board of Education, Warren thought of the Court as a protector of the public, the means to restore ethics and mind the conducts of legislators. The Warren Court did not view constitutional law as text alone; it was living.

https://www.oyez.org/justices/earl_warren

September 1, 2021

Will the "Big Tech" companies take McCarthy and the Republicans to court?

To get a ruling on whether or not they have to turn over their phone records to the Select Committee?

If they rule in the Republicans favor, what should the Democrats do?

It appears they are trying to delay and obstruct the investigation until the next election is over, hoping they will once again be in the majority?

And they can end the investigation?