Today in History: October 9. Subscribe and save! Get inside articles from the world's premier publisher of history magazines. Our line of historical magazines includes America's Civil War, American History, Aviation History, Civil War Times, Military History, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Vietnam, Wild West and World War II. Kansas Republicans' Judge Impeachment Proposal Is Latest Crazy Policy. If it were possible for Congress to place a state into some kind of democratic receivership, Kansas would be a really good candidate. Governor Sam Brownback—excuse me, twice- elected, god help us, Governor Sam Brownback—turned the state into a lab rat for all the worst policy ideas produced by the modern conservative Republican party. The legislature went gleefully along for the ride. The state has cratered and, as it cratered, it sank deeper and deeper into madness. Today in History October 9 28 BC The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome. 1470 Henry VI of England is restored to the throne. The Great Let's-Totally-F*ck-Up-Kansas-Experiment Is Nearly Complete. What a time to be alive. A timeline of the Great Depression from the American Experience documentary Riding the Rails. This here is a cartoon I wrote for the Sarah Silverman show y’all! Same team as on all the short cartoons I wrote and directed for the Sarah show. Joshua Aaron OFFICIAL PAGE Albums: Hu Yavo (2014) You Are Holy (2012), Bo Yeshua (2009). In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment. The latest chapter in this sad saga came when the state's Supreme Court began to rule that, all Randian wet- dreams aside, Kansas had an obligation to fund its public schools at a decent level. If you think that the legislature response was to carefully consider what it's been doing over the past few years and pull itself back from a course of action that is so obviously harming so many of the people that put it into office, then you probably live in a state not presided over by the likes of Sam Brownback. A committee in the GOP- controlled Senate plans to vote Tuesday on a bill that would make . Dennis Pyle, a sponsor of the measure. Nearly half the Senate's members have signed on as sponsors. It's unclear whether its novelty could complicate passage. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Don't like what the Court's been doing? Don't abide by its rulings, just 8. Since Gov. Sam Brownback and GOP supermajorities won control of the statehouse in 2. The state Supreme Court has issued rulings to force increased spending on public schools, citing a constitutional requirement that schools be adequately funded, and threatened last month to shut the schools this fall if lawmakers don't comply. The court also has overturned death sentences in capital murder cases and is reviewing a case that could toss out abortion restrictions. Mitch Holmes, one of the impeachment bill's sponsors. Callie Denton, executive director of the state trial lawyers' association, said Kansas is . Legal groups like hers fear Republicans will be motivated to initiate impeachment proceedings if the bill passes. There are few frontiers in democratic government that they will not work to violate, or to twist to their own purposes. And they absolutely will not stop. Ni shagu nazad, as Stalin said to his army. Not one step backwards. Conservative groups are expected to mount a major effort to vote out four of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot this fall. But critical lawmakers also hope to make impeachment a tool. Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, near the Lincoln Memorial, Washington City.Currently, the state constitution allows impeachment only for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. No public official has been impeached since 1. In other states, conservative groups are spending heavily in contested judicial elections. Two Arkansas Supreme Court candidates were defeated last week after two groups spent more than $8. Brownback and GOP lawmakers already have tried unsuccessfully to change how the justices are selected and to cut the judiciary's budget. Government has been refashioned to work splendidly for the wealthy and connected, and not at all for the people who need it most, who then develop within their hearts and minds contempt for it at the ballot box, and contempt that perpetuates itself with every new atrocity, which has been the plan all along. As we point out often here at the shebeen, the problem with lab rats is that most of them die. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Experiment Class was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed by George Whale. They were an extended version of the. The Great Depression is often called a “defining moment” in the twentieth-century history of the United States. Its most lasting effect was a transformation of.
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