Page 46 - Thought Experiment News Today

Okay. heres a little thought experiment. think about the supreme court of the united states right now, and remember the supreme court is deciding the constitutionality of the affordable care act. now, right now the court looks like it is actually diverse, one-third of the court members are women. elena kagan and sonia sotomayor and ruth ginsberg bader, but the supreme court is not just these folks that you see here in the class photo, but the supreme court, because it builds on the decisions mad...

We assumed that these men could represent all of us. when we think about women. >> they obviously didnt. >> good point. >> they obviously didnt. for the thought experiment, can we introduce another condition that the women be poor women or working women, but low income working women would be better with the thought experiment. >> yes, thinking about the other relevant identity factors. >> there were disagreements and long history of disagreements with the courts, but the court defended the inter...

Leadership with the way these issues are covered. i agree with alex there are many areas where we have not seen a focus on a racial or urban agenda from this administration but he did take a risk in saying this is what my son would look like. the next day, the new york post which was wrong on these issues with sean bell and reverend sharpton protesting in years past, they came out the next day and ran a cover that said national son because they changed the conversation. >> we are looking at reve...

Nuclear -- >> look, in the first place, speaking of international law, iran is a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty and its not allowed -- >> and its abiding by it. >> well, if you think it has a nuclear weapons program, and i do think it has a nuclear weapons program, in the sense that its enriching uranium -- >> thats not a weapons program. its enriching uranium because the united states refused to sell them the fuel rods for the -- >> oh, the iaea is actually further ahead on this right...

Quite brilliantly. >> one of the things i think detroit forces us to think the things we think are natural are contingent. the thought experiment were talking about in our staff imagine 50 years silicon valley looking like detroit, right? detroit was the silicon valley of its time and. you went back in time and you told people what it was going to look like, they would laugh at you. >> they would. >> they would say youre crazy. right now we think mark zuckerbergs house in palo alto is always goi...

They are against pleasure. thats part of the problem. they want to prohibit. thats what they like doing. >> you talk about prescription drugs, too? thats like the whole other thing thats going on that we -- its absolutely legal. that that is not a part of the conversation. >> we actually had this thought experiment, talking about cindy mccain who battled aed a dikds to prescription drugs. what it would be like if the wife or spouse of a candidate had openly battled cocaine addiction, right, or h...

Position which is exactly what "the new york times" does. imagine if the supreme court said to "the new york times" you cant run editorials in the two weeks before because you are spending x dollars on those editorial. >> thats the point. thats the point. lets -- fine. lets rerun the thought experiment. those three, deep in my imaginary equity gentlemen, there was nothing precitizens united stopping them and buying the network and putting them on. they arent. it is different. thats the point. th...

Newspaper to take this editorial position which is exactly what "the new york times" does. imagine if the supreme court said to "the new york times" you cant run editorials in the two weeks before because you are spending x dollars on those editorial. >> thats the point. thats the point. lets -- fine. lets rerun the thought experiment. those three, deep in my imaginary equity gentlemen, there was nothing precitizens united stopping them and buying the network and putting them on. they arent. it ...

endangering the lives of civilians who could be caught in the crossphile. jurlists, three being held after five days at the tripoli hotel. cnns chaunce was one of them. steve jobs will step down. jobs is on his third medical leave of absence. he didnt mention his health problems directly but he said the time has come to resign. portions of the u.s. east coast are likely to be under a hurricane watch in just a few hours. hurricane irene is tearing through the bahamas right now with su...

His arms around not only the arab spring and arab winter but the arab peace process, in an effort to impose some rational and to remind people that in fact we -- there is some consistency predictability to american policy. >> youve got john mccain doing something which i thought was rather extraordinary, being on foreign soil, in a war zone, in benghazi, and criticizing the administration policy. he is the former, you know, nominee and the most well known of the foreign policy hawks in the senat...