“I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight,” said the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “because my conscience leaves me no other choice.”
This was on the evening of April 4, 1967, almost exactly 43 years ago. Dr. King told the more than 3,000 people who had crowded into Riverside Church that silence in the face of the horror that was taking place in Vietnam amounted to a “betrayal.” Bob Herbert, CommonDreams
Texas lawmakers will try to use a 1995 Supreme Court decision in a gun case as a central argument.
A bit of an earthquake in Baja!
Justice John Paul Stevens, “I have to fish or cut bait.”
Use of the death penalty is decreasing worldwide. China takes home the prize for being #1.
Meet the Top 100 corporate air polluters!
Here’s the top 10:
1. Bayer
2. ExxonMobil
3. Sunoco
4. E.I. du Pont de Nemours
5. ArcelorMittal
6. Steel Dynamics, Inc.
7. Archer Daniels Midland Co.
8. Ford Motor Company
9. Eastman Kodak Co.
10. Koch Industries
In the Texas case, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1990 gun law was unconstitutional because it had nothing to do with commerce between states.
But they weren’t selling guns, only prohibiting their possession, in a school zone. I don’t see the connection at all.
Anyway, they can’t claim that health insurance isn’t interstate commerce, because I live in Alabama and my health insurance is Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota. My company has a plant in Brainerd, where they made the deal for the whole corporation. Any big company can put an office in any state where they want to buy health insurance, and get it from that state. My Cobra is administered by Optum Health, also in Minnesota.