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Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of local governments and law enforcement agencies in using federal military personnel to enforce the laws of the land. Contrary to popular belief, the Act does not prohibit members of the Army from exercising state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order"; it simply requires that any authority to do so must exist with the United States Constitution or Act of Congress. In this way, most use of the Army and the Air Force at the direction of the President does not offend the statute, even though it may be problematic for other reasons (politically).
history  law 
4 weeks ago by mwfogleman
Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim Jones - Jennie Rothenberg Gritz - National - The Atlantic
How do you feel when you hear people casually use the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" -- as in, "I drank the Kool-Aid. I love everything Lady Gaga does"?

It makes me shudder. I know it's part of the culture now and I shouldn't be so sensitive to it. But Jonestown was an important part of American history, and it's been marginalized. We have to ask ourselves, why did 918 people leave this country and go with Jim Jones to Guyana? That's a big question. Why did this group feel they'd rather live in a jungle than in San Francisco, Oakland, Atlanta, wherever they were living?

There's a lot of disagreement over the word "cult." How would you define it?

A cult is when you aren't allowed to see your friends or family. I'm not talking about a retreat, or two weeks at a spa. I'm talking about total isolation -- someone takes all your money and brings you to a place where there's no communication, or if there is you aren't allowed to use it. Those are the lessons I took from Jonestown, and that's the message I think the American people should take from it. Trust your gut and don't give up your liberties.
cults  america  culture  history 
november 2011 by mwfogleman
The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
The psychological profiles of pioneering American physicists are remarkably similar. Frequently the eldest son of an emotionally remote, professional man, he–almost all were men–was a voracious reader during childhood, tended to feel lonely, and was shy and aloof from classmates.
education  articles  read  harpers  reactor  boy  radioactive  geek  magazine  awesome  interesting  nuclear  experiments  creativity  article  science  diy  essay  news  history  ethics  energy  cool 
may 2009 by mwfogleman
smarthistory
SmARThistory is an edited online art history resource to augment or replace traditional art history texts. For a given artwork, smARThistory brings together podcasts, video clips, images, links to other resources, and commentary, providing a rich context for the work. Indexed by timeline, artistic style, artist and theme.
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april 2009 by mwfogleman
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com
So I won't be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I've spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can't even tell when they've broken their own misbegotten rules.
reference  education  books  writing  culture  history  language  english  review  linguistics  style  criticism  grammar  composition  strunk 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
MichaelBarrier.com -- Interviews: Charles M. Schulz
Later on, when Franklin was introduced into the strip, the little black kid—I could have put him in long before that, but for other reasons, I didn't. I didn't want to intrude upon the work of others, so I held off on that. But I finally put Franklin in. They didn't like that. I never paid any attention to those things, and I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?" So that's the way that ended.
humor  charlesschulz  peanuts  interesting  schulz  history  articles  interview  comics 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Meacham: The End of Christian America | Newsweek Religion | Newsweek.com
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
politics  sociology  culture  christianity  psychology  read  christian  article  history  faith  abortion  news  articles  usa  america  community  religion  2009  us  atheism  newsweek 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Philosophia Islamica | MetaFilter
Meet the Islamic Philosophers. Arabic philosophy sought to reconcile the science and empiricism of Aristotle, the metaphysics of Neoplatonism, and the revelations of the Holy Qur'an. From the first thoughts of Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī, to the 20,000 pages of Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, the influence of these Muslim polymaths profoundly shaped Western thought.
islam  philosophy  history  religion  reason  faith  koran 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
technology  journalism  trends  internet  innovation  culture  revolution  copyright  business  gutenberg  advertising  history  news  change  article  web  newspapers  drm  future  media  publishing  economy  online  print  newspaper  information 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
Defining Anarchy
Government failure is not anarchy. Anarchy is a society that functions without government control, a free society. Society can continue to function somewhat with limited government control, but that doesn’t mean government control is required to have a society. When government control obviously hinders the efforts of society to function efficiently, it is time to remove those controls. A society can function better with no government controls. New Orleans should be a case study educating Americans and the world of this simple fact.
politics  liberty  essays  history  literature  activism  theory  anarchism  anarchy 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
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