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The quest for Black’s civil rights was not like the quest for same sex marriages

By / 1 Comment / 27 March 2015

Summary:  A follow-up to Another American judge weakens the Republic’s foundation, responding to comments that display serious amnesia about our history. I’ve received dozens of comments saying that Judge Walker’s decision overturning California’s Proposition 8 (the opinion) was equivalent to one of the decisions overturning segregation, from Brown v. Board of Education (1954) through Loving v. Virginia (1967, …

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More evidence that the Republican Party of today has different principles than the pre-1960s GOP

By / Leave a Comment / 2 June 2013

Exhibit 1 Excerpt from “Just Like Ike (on Deterrence)“, Campbell Craig (Pro of international politics at Aberystwyth U), op-ed in the New York Times, 8 April 2010 IN the spring of 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a sweeping change in the American approach to nuclear war. Henceforth, the United States would rule out waging nuclear …

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R.I.P., G.O.P. – a well-deserved end

By / 33 Comments / 10 February 2015

Summary:  This post describes one long-standing weakness which has helped bring the party crashing down (this is a forecast, assuming that the next few elections further diminish its role on the national, state, and local levels). Note:  The title is an exaggeration, a long tradition on the FM site.  The GOP’s time as the dominant party are …

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