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http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/
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http://www.tvshack.net/index.html If you were to go to the above address or several other related addresses, you would find the heavy handed and arrogant message from the Federal Government that they have seized the site. But in this case, over 70,000 blogs were taken down also, in one fell swoop. 70,000 voices silenced by the jack boots of the Federal
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At the major risk of taking this thread off track, I will give the concise answer. 1. There was no need to obtain the unconditional surrender of Japan and in fact, Japan had been prepared to give a conditional surrender with the most modest face saving conditions possible. Their navy was destroyed and they were no longer a threat to the United States
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I should also note that had William Henry Harrison not died so quickly, he would likely have ended up in the failure range. He fully supported Henry Clay's "American System" and would likely have, with the assistance of the Whig Congress, brought it into existance fully twenty years before Lincoln, whom ultimately did bring it to fruition
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I keep a copy of this just for the occasions "Who is the best/worst Presidents?" threads. The disastrous Presidents: 1. Abraham Lincoln - Classic Authoritarian 2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Engaged in disastrous counter cyclical policy and inflicted numerous disastrous programs on the nation 3. Woodrow Wilson - Federal Reserve and World War
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I would have to disagree on Thomas as well. Again, he does have a few high profile pro civil liberties decisions. But overall, only Chief Justice Rehnquist has a lower Civil Liberties score. Generally, Thomas has ruled for the State against the Indiividual and for the Federal Government against the States, as well as voting to weaken due process protections
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Giving a little more weight to Economic Score, it seems Alito is the most libertarian? If I was going to weight either score, I would tend to weight the Civil Liberty side. But frankly I don't see any point of weighting either side. And Alito is an authoritarian, par exellence, on the Civil Liberties side. I would have to give the title of closest
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I will admit from the start that this is not the best measure, but I have seen very little on an objective ranking of the Justices. So after seeing this study the other day that attempts to rank the Justices from Conservative to Liberal: Landes, William M. and Posner, Richard A., Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study (April 2008). U of Chicago
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I have been presented with the declarations of secession and several speeches that claim to be ironclad proof that 1) slavery was the cause of secession and 2) secession was the cause of the war; therefore slavery caused the Civil War. What is your response to such a claim? The first point is partially true, but is irrelevant since the second point
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Agree, we should tell both the Israeli AND Arab lobbies to **** off and die and we should mind our own damn business. In fact, we should mind our own business as far as the rest of the world goes as well.