I sure think it is. Wish we had us some of it in this country.
- Indiana’s highest court rules that there is no constitutional right (at least in that state) to resist if the police illegally enter your home.
- The South Carolina lawmaker who wrote the new voter ID law that just passed that state’s legislature has been named “legislator of the year” for his role in effectively disenfranchising African American (i.e., overwhelmingly Democratic) voters in order to “solve” a voter fraud problem that does not exist.
- Newt Gingrich goes South Carolina one better. Gingrich told an audience at the Georgia Republican Party’s state convention that native-born Americans should be required to pass an American history test before being allowed to vote. This, via Matthew Yglesias, who points out that “if Gingrich himself wants to avoid flunking history he might take note of the fact that making US citizens take a poll test would be illegal under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. That’s for the very good reason that the historical purpose of such proposals has been to prevent black people form voting.”
- Mike Huckabee thinks the purpose of teaching American history should be to teach about the “real America” — the one where Ronald Reagan ended Communism, fought black criminals, and returned America to the glory of right-wing Republican ideology. At least, though, Huckabee has announced he will not be running for POTUS.
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