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Merrick Garland answered the National School Board Association's plea for broad federal intervention, which will only escalate political warfare.

Jerry Summers: Dayton Had Fleeting Fame From 1925 Scopes Trial Monday, July 26, 2021 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers On July 21, 1925, Judge J.T. Raulston fined teacher John T. Scopes in the amount of $100 in violation of the provision of the Tennessee Constitution that prohibited the assessment of any fine over $50 unless it had been imposed by a jury of 12 persons in the historic battle over evolution in the Circuit Court of Rhea County in Dayton.  The all-male jury had mostly sat in ...

A Memphis federal judge sentenced a man to five years in prison Wednesday in an international "swatting" scheme over the use of the Twitter nickname @Tennessee. Federal prosecutors said the scheme led to a persons death. "Swatting" is the practice of falsely reporting life-threatening emergencies at peoples homes, causing heavily armed police to rush to the scene. This case involves Shane Sonderman, now 20, a resident of Lauderdale County northeast of Memphis. Federal authorities accused ...

Today in History for July 21st Highlights of this day in history: First major battle in Americas Civil War fought at Bull Run in Virginia; Scopes Monkey Trial concludes; Peace deal ends Indochina War; Author Ernest Hemingway and actor-comedian Robin Williams born. (July 21) AP

According to a May 6 announcement from True North Real Estate, the buyer was am acquisition company under parent company Black Bear Delaware Trust.

20 October 2020 PopMatters has been avidly following Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray series called Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, yet we were hardly prepared for Volume 8. In his commentary track, curator and historian Bret Wood calls the film a “sprawling, dishonest, spectacular, offensive, inhumane hodge-podge of a motion picture”, and he’s the one producing the disc. Resurfacing like a sour dream from America’s cinematic subconscious is a long-suppressed phony d...

Considered. and that is when he erimentupte. saying if richard nixon pardoned any of the then accused criminals in his administration the president would be impeached. he said if the president grants this pardon, he will be insuring his own trial. he will be forcing it. the public has to have a head, and if the president takes the heads away the public will have his. and that will be the monkey trial of all-time. the president has to take his chances. meaning garment said ethe president has to t...

And bernstein he said at one point maybe a pardon should be considered. and that is when he erupted. saying if richard nixon pardoned any of the then accused criminals in his administration the president would be impeached. he said if the president grants this pardon, he will be insuring his own trial. he will be forcing it. the public has to have a head, and if the president takes the heads away the public will have his. and that will be the monkey trial of all-time. the president has to take h...

Even get here until the tail end of the last one. we didnt even have fire then. so how did we cause it? >> how did we cause it? talk about -- its almost like a debate against nature. this like the monkey trial again, the scopes trial? is this a battle against science? >> to some extent. there is a sense among people of faith that perhaps this is an attack on faith. of course, i dont see it that way. i see it that the science affirm miss faith. you know the apostle paul in romans i said what may ...

Figure. and this is something that was so interesting to reflect on with creationists. >> indeed. you capture such great stuff in the interviews that you have of creationists. im sharing interviews that you have with creationists. you also take us through the sort of historical inflection points in terms of the pushback on evolution, the first one being whats known as the scopes monkey trial. which was a trial over whether or not teachers could be prohibited from teaching evolution. talk to us a...