There were no First Amendment speech or press ( or any 1st Amendment,I
believe)cases before the U.S. Supreme Court until 1919, 128 years after the
passage of the Bill of Rights. Probably for the history of the existence of
the Bill of Rights, most _adult_ Americans have _not_ had even the high
sc
One of my first papers in university was based on a survey (pretty small
sample) of high school students (my old Passaic NJ high school) getting
their views on the paraphrased 1st Amendment. Same basic results, same
basic conclusions (I think my title was something like Yesterday's Ideals,
Tomo
Generation Red, White And Gray
If the children are the future, we're screwed.
By Alexander Zaitchik
Last week was a busy one on the creeping-fascism index. So busy, in fact,
that I finally accepted there is even such a thing as a creeping-fascism
index.
Over the past few years, I've held fast to a