I loved the John Adams HBO miniseries, which was generally well done. That said, they made Dickinson look like a complete snidely fop, which he was not.
"Great grandfather ran the investigation and served as Special Judge Advocate during the trial"
I want to Gettysburg College and had a psychology professor, Dr. Mudd. His (great?) Grandfather had patched up John Wilkes Booth leg after the assassination.
"Here are two commonly held moral views. First, we must save strangers’ lives, at least if we can do so easily: you would be required to rescue a child drowning in a pond even if it will ruin your expensive suit. Second, it is wrong to eat meat because of the suffering caused to animals in factory farms."
What if the drowning child is a meat eater?
Is it just me or has anybody here ever even seen a vegetarian wearing an expensive suit? The vegetarians I know wear ratty clothes and reek of patchouli.
"This isn’t the first time Van Jones has spoken truth. He has actual political instincts and doesn’t just completely live in liberal fantasy land."
Which is why I have long said that Jones is one of the most dangerous on the left. He'll never forsake his ideology, but is intelligent enough to recognize and plan on dealing with the obstacles faced in implementing it.
"Undocumented immigrants are being swept off the streets by masked officers in plainclothes who refuse to give their names. Parents are being handcuffed in front of young children and escorted together onto buses and into detention centers. Officers are tackling people and smashing car windows as they make arrests."
The WaPo doesn't need to keep extolling the virtues of this program. Most Americans are already sold on the idea.
It was in effect a kill on contract order, but stated much more judiciously, something along the lines of the person/persons doing the shooting apparently were displaying no intent to surrender and that LE would do whatever it takes to neutralize the threat. I guess it could be construed as a shoot to kill order, but was actually just a rational call toward dealing with the situation correctly. In a case like this the two are not mutually exclusive.