Despite all the violence that marked the civil rights revolution, the methods championed by , together with the sweeping political victories of racial liberalism in the Martin Luther King's adaptation of Gandhi-like methods, together with the decisive and bipartisan electoral victories of the 1960s, gained a bipartisan "mandate from the People" for  landmark statutes and judicial super-precedents that went far beyond the more formal principles of racial… [read post]

John Reed Stark  As I detailed in a post at the time (here), on Thursday last week, the SEC filed a securities fraud enforcement action against Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk in connection with his now infamous tweets, in which he said he had “secured” funding to take the company private at a substantial premium over the company’s then-current share price. [read post]

 Pix Credit USA Today HERE As time moves further and further from the middle of the last century, and as the character of the events that determined the outcome of the last part of the wars that engulfed  Europe between 1914 and 1944 increasingly become history rather than  experience, one stands at that very brief point in history between living memory (and its immediacy) and and the recording of the memories of those no longer here (and its remoteness in virtually every respect). [read post]