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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Jim Crow lives on in America’s prisons

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 29, 2015Leave a comment

War is hell. Post-Civil War, Reconstruction was hellish. In a beauty contest, however, Reconstruction was in a dead heat with the Redemption for ugliness. The difference had to do with the losers in both. In the former it was Dixie. In the latter, it was people with black skin. I invested a very large chunk…

Time to leave No Child Left Behind behind

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 22, 2015Leave a comment

Dog days. Dog days. Nothing to write about. Nothing at all. Caitlyn Jenner’s evening wear? The latest Cosby atrocity? The freshest offering of Trump idiocy? What to write about? Hmm. How about something that has affected every family of every child in every public school for over a decade? With so many people dramatically affected…

Captives of commerce in a shooting gallery

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 14, 2015Leave a comment

We now know that racist trigger man Dylan Roof should not have been able to purchase a firearm. The FBI’s background check system should have blocked it based on felony drug charges. To this, a Facebook post announced, “Proof positive that making it harder to purchase guns will not make it harder for criminals to…

Founders’ intentions got redistricted right off the map

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 7, 2015Leave a comment

Most Americans don’t know how long it took for a notion “conceived in liberty” in 1776 to gestate. For a notion to become a nation, that is. Eleven years is how long it took: seven years of war, four years of legal flux, before the Constitution was signed. When that was done, outside the Constitutional…

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