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Tag: Civil Rights Act

AP/dapd/Berthold Stadler

Rethinking Black History Month

By Paul Von Blum —

The modern civil rights movement occurred long before millions of Americans were born, but many participants and observers are still available to recount their stories.

Posted on Feb 28, 2013 READ MORE

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Robert Caro, LBJ and the Pursuit of Power

Robert Caro has so far spent 36 years writing the saga of Lyndon Johnson—more time than the ambitious Texan spent climbing from Congress to the White House. Caro just released his fourth installment, “The Passage of Power,” which chronicles Johnson’s exit from a strong position in the Senate into the relative powerlessness of the vice presidency.

Posted on Jun 12, 2012 READ MORE

AP / Ed Reinke

What’s Not to Like About Civil Rights?

By Marcia Alesan Dawkins —

For Rand Paul, the issue is not about race and it’s not about guns either. It’s about government interference with privacy rights. But what Paul and others may not be remembering is that race, violence and privacy rights go hand in hand.

Posted on May 31, 2010 READ MORE | 22 COMMENTS

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Kentucky Senate Adopts Civil Rights Resolution

The Kentucky state Senate has passed a resolution to let it be known that all varieties of discrimination are officially not OK in the Bluegrass State. Whether Rand Paul is paying attention to that gesture was unclear at press time.

Posted on May 31, 2010 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

Give Some Answers, Dr. Paul

By Eugene Robinson —

Not so fast, everybody. Rand Paul can’t abruptly disavow the extremist views on civil rights that he’s been espousing for years and expect us all to just move along.

Posted on May 24, 2010 READ MORE | 28 COMMENTS

The Soul Mates Bork and Paul

By Ruth Marcus —

That Robert Bork took a stand against the Civil Rights Act in 1963 is bad enough; back then, Bork had plenty of company. That Rand Paul seems to hew to these views in 2010 is as disturbing as it is amazing.