Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rights. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Rights and Duties of "Natural Persons"

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 Apparently there's an environmental/legal movement to grant/recognize rights of natural features, such as rights.  I'd guess it...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

What History Should Include

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 Bob Somerby comments on a news commentary show where one participant noted he hadn't been taught the Tulsa massacre and just recently l...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Selma

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Finally got around to watching the movie Selma Friday night. It was well done. It's been criticized for the portrayal of the LBJ-MLK rel...
Monday, July 20, 2020

How Soon We Forget--the White Freedom Riders

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There was a good bit of commentary, some here, on the protests after George Floyd's death about the number of white faces in the crowds....
Monday, June 01, 2020

1968 and Now--a Subtle Difference

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I remember 1968 well, so well I've tried to avoid most coverage of the riots over the past few days. There is one subtle difference I ...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Memories of MLKing

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This article documents an April 1961 speech by Martin Luther King at Cornell University's Bailey Hall. From there I found this:  On ...
Monday, September 23, 2019

A Reminder from the Civil Rights Era

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Breach of Peace has a post on an exhibit of the mug shots of the Freedom Riders. The artist likes the part which shows 120 Riders  in pr...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

MLK Remembered

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Kevin Drum posts a chart showing Gallup's results for approval of Martin Luther King.  He notes the rising approval over the years from...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

My Alternative for the Hamilton Cast

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Much discussion about Pence's attendance at the Hamilton musical performance, some boos from the audience and a post-show statement from...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Schafly: Losing the War?

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I first became aware of Phyllis Schafly from her anti-LBJ diatribe.  Needless to say, I was not impressed.  She is widely credited with stop...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

USDA and Civil Rights

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The Jefferson Auditorium is the big meeting room in USDA's South Building at 14th and Independence.  Lots of ceremonies there, usually t...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Historical Ironies: War on Poverty and the South

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As I remember the War on Poverty, it started with people (like Robert Kennedy and LBJ) paying attention to West Virginia and Mississippi,  f...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Discrimination in Colleges

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This Post piece goes into the reality of discrimination on the basis of gender in private colleges. "Given that girls generally out...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Receipt for Service II

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I've got a problem with the Receipt for Service implementation. Just in terms of bureaucracy and system design, county employees are as...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

USDA "Receipt for Service" Initiative I

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USDA's Office of Advocacy and Outreach published an FR notic e of a June meeting on USDA's "Receipt for Service" initiati...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Rights, We Have Rights

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Two interesting bits on the rights front today:  A district court judge in Alabama issued a decision comparing regulation of abortion clin...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Parker on the Past and USDA Sensitivity Training

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Kathleen Parker, the conservativish columnist for the Post, writes mocking the sensitivity training at USDA.  I understand the mockery, but...
Friday, February 15, 2013

USDA Sensitivity Training Gets Attention

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From the right, see this Daily Caller article.  It brings back memories of my past sensitivity training sessions.  As described, it sounds ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Congress: No Negative Earmarks

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One of the things Congress likes to do is the "negative earmark", by which I mean sticking a provision in an appropriation act sta...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Cultural Transformation

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FSA issued a notice on how to deal with customers, including a long list of do's and don'ts.  When I joined the agency they had a ...