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Stealing three F-16 jet-fighter engines and whisking them out of a military air base is no easy feat. The $2 million Pratt & Whitney machines are 17 ft. long and weigh more than 3,000 lbs. each. But two weeks ago, a military policeman at Utah's Hill Air Force Base towed the mighty machines through an unguarded gate and flogged them to a dealer in military surplus...
Likening the eradication of discrimination and racial tension to the nation's quest to place an American on the moon 20 years ago, Rom said that "if we have the will to do it, we can do it--if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we remedy [our current racial and ethnic situation...
...discussed the Court's recent rulings on civil rights issues, saying that particularly after the Court's ruling in Martin v. Wilks, advances that had been made years ago could be contested by "strangers to the [original] proceedings...
...nightmarish gauntlet that has to be run between two ravening mobs. Not because of last week's Webster decision, which opened the door (at least partway) to legislation restricting a woman's right to abortion, but because of the famous Roe v. Wade decision of 16 years ago, creating that virtually absolute, constitutional abortion right, which Webster partially overturned...
...over abortion and what effect those battles will have on politics at large. My bet is that the repeal of Roe (especially if it is completed by the court next year, as seems likely) will awaken and politicize social-issue liberals the way Roe itself energized conservatives 16 years ago. From 1973 until recently, abortion mattered a lot more to the antis than to the pros; that is already starting to change. The new politics of abortion will also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind Democrats have been in more often in recent years: trapped between...