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Green New Deal

dimanche 30 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Making the Green New Deal concrete.

The Strand

dimanche 30 décembre 2018 à 01:00

The Strand bookstore says that designating its building as a landmark could make it shut down.

Double jeopardy

dimanche 30 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Prosecuting someone for the same act as a state crime and as a federal crime effectively undermines the Constitution's prohibition of double jeopardy.

I can see several ways to reconcile the various goals here. For instance, federal charges, if pursued to a verdict, could pre-empt state charges. Or any sentence served for a state conviction could count towards the sentence for a federal conviction and vice versa.

When a political leader dies

dimanche 30 décembre 2018 à 01:00

When a political leader dies, we should not suffer amnesia about important bad things that the leader did.

Don't forget how President Bush I connived at murderous fascist governments in South America.

When Steve Jobs died, I refused to hush up about the great harm that he (through Apple) had done to human freedom.

Global heating

dimanche 30 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Save Millions of Lives by Tackling [global heating], Says WHO.