Daily Topics - Tuesday March 17th, 2015
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Join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
Be sure to check out our videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: E-mail gate...Jeb Bush, BUSTED! Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Two: Alcohol...or pot?
Hour Three: Climate change...'it's personal' say scientists - Eric Michelman, More Than Scientists
Comments
#2
Dred Scot had been taken to both the State of Illinois (free by its own constitution) and the Territory of Wisconsin (free by federal regulation of the territory).
I find it interesting that the Dred Scott ruling essentially said that what's not contraband in one state is not contraband in any state. Perhaps Colorado's marijuana legalization can piggyback on that to make it legal across the nation.
#3
I'm watching the Papantonio segment AGAIN at the latter part at the second hour. What will we have at the beginning of the third hour?
#4
I recently found that Texas state government only supplies 13% of the funding for the University of Texas. How small should the support be before it is no longer called a state university?
#5
Thom's interpretation of how the judicial branch should operate would leave no use for a process of getting a legal case from the bottom level to the Supreme Court. I would say the Supreme Court would have no function at all, but it would still have its areas of original jurisdiction. But it would in no sense be supreme, as cases outside its original jurisdiction would not filter up to it.
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Saints' feast days are, I believe, usually the day they were martyred. If they weren't martyred, the church still goes with the day they died, since birhdays were often not known in olden times.