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Since the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK just passed, a lot of outlets put out projects on him.

HBO put out a new documentary on the later years of this life:



NBC an interview that is featured in the documentary:



The Atlantic put out a special MLK issue, some of the articles are free on the site too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/mlk/

Harvard University Press put out a book of essays by different writers discussing King:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980754
 
I understand he has a personal vendetta against Bezos, but attacking the Postal Service is not a good look ... Many of the people who put him in office work as / interact with a mailman on a daily basis ...

The fact that he's using numbers from an article financed by UPS to make his point is further proof that this is a sideshow ... This is one of the few things from him that I dont see the benefit from a political perspective ... It is literally just using his position to pressure an agency that doesn't receive tax dollars to do his dirty work ... Weird given the marginal cost to deliver a package decreases with density and Amazon will easily win the delivery space eventually ... I coincidentally wrote a paper on this in grad school because I used to ship so many shoes in my younger days lol ...
 
NRA boardmember and proud redneck Ted Nugent is now openly advocating shooting Democrats on sight.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...crats-to-rabid-coyotes-says-to-shoot-on-sight
Ted Nugent likens Democrats to 'rabid coyotes' that should be shot on sight
Musician Ted Nugent compared Democrats to "rabid coyotes" in a Friday discussion on gun control with InfoWars host Alex Jones, and said they should be shot on sight.

Asked by Jones, a right-wing conspiracy theorist, about why liberals and the left want to ban firearms, Nugent said that "evil" and "dishonesty" are traits of liberals.

“Don’t ask why. Just know that evil, dishonesty, and scam artists have always been around and that right now they’re liberal, they’re Democrat, they’re RINOs, they’re Hollywood, they’re fake news, they’re media, they’re academia, and they’re half of our government, at least,” Nugent said according to Media Matters, a liberal watchdog group.



"There are rabid coyotes running around, you don't wait till you see one to go get your gun, keep your gun handy," he added. "And every time you see one, shoot one."

Nugent is a hunting enthusiast and board member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun rights advocacy group that has faced immense backlash in the wake of the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school in February.

Nugent's remarks come after he previously called for a decrease in “hateful rhetoric” after the shooting of congressional Republicans during a baseball practice last year.
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RustyShackleford said:
Since the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK just passed, a lot of outlets put out projects on him.

HBO put out a new documentary on the later years of this life:



NBC an interview that is featured in the documentary:



The Atlantic put out a special MLK issue, some of the articles are free on the site too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/mlk/

Harvard University Press put out a book of essays by different writers discussing King:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980754
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Best post of the day. Thank you so much for posting the second most influential civil rights leaders of all time. Please find a video of the MOST important civil rights leader ever. This person knows more about what it means to be Black in America than anyone. He fights LIB CONJECTURE AND INNUENDO with cold hard truths.




 
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Remember Trump's attacks against Amazon? Like this example:

For the record, Amazon does collect taxes on products it sells to customers in the 45 states that have sales taxes, although items sold by third-party vendors may have different arrangements.

Well guess what...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...lects-sales-tax-in-only-two-states-1523042739
Trump Organization’s Web Store Collects Sales Tax in Only Two States
Trump administration is pushing for online retailers to pay more in state and local sales taxes
 
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RustyShackleford said:
Since the 50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK just passed, a lot of outlets put out projects on him.
NBC an interview that is featured in the documentary:
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Lots of great material there but there's a really great quote I like in that interview at 16:31
"I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps"
 
"Somewhat higher"
Pruitt's security detail has cost 3 million dollars, consists of a 20-member 24/7 detail and has caused so much overtime that many of the security members have hit their salary caps and forced agents to be pulled from environmental investigations to provide security for him. He also tried to order a bulletproof vehicle and a bulletproof desk but those requests were denied. He handsomely paid a female aide who allegedly didn't even show up to work for more than a month. He installed a costly soundproof booth in his office. He went on a taxpayer-funded first class trip to Morocco to promote liquefied natural gas. The only US liquefied natural gas exporter is a client of the energy lobbyist who co-owns the $50/night condo Pruitt was living in.
Etc. etc.
 
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Putting things in perspective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_Canada

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_France

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_the_United_Kingdom
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There’s obviously a lot in there but the part that struck me is the amount of US scandals involving campaign finance. It’s almost like there’s a problem with that?
 
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133#.U4cuc15MkmY

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.


By RANDALL BALMER


May 27, 2014


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One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Waderuling legalizing abortion. The tale goes something like this: Evangelicals, who had been politically quiescent for decades, were so morally outraged by Roe that they resolved to organize in order to overturn it.

This myth of origins is oft repeated by the movement’s leaders. In his 2005 book, Jerry Falwell, the firebrand fundamentalist preacher, recounts his distress upon reading about the ruling in the Jan. 23, 1973, edition of the Lynchburg News: “I sat there staring at the Roe v. Wade story,” Falwell writes, “growing more and more fearful of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s act and wondering why so few voices had been raised against it.” Evangelicals, he decided, needed to organize.

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Some of these anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,” invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery.

But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism.
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