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Earl Warren

2007-05-02T01:11:40Z

Liberal Infidel:

'''Earl Warren,''' (1891-1974) was an American judge, best known for his role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969.

==Early Professional Life==
Prior to serving on the Court, Warren was a prosecutor and politician. As governor of [[Alaska|California]], Warren had supervised the Japanese internments discussed in the famous ''Korematsu v. U.S.'' case, now reviled as an example of America at its worst. President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] appointed Warren to the [[Supreme Court]] as a political payoff.

===Brown v. Board of Education===
Warren acceded to the position of [[Chief Justice]] while ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' was being reargued at the behest of associate Justice [[Frankfurter]], who ordered re-argument as a stalling tactic, to allow the Justice to gather a unanimous consensus around a liberal ''Brown'' opinion that would outlaw segregation. Associate Justice [[Vinson]] was one such stumbling block.

Warren convened a meeting of the associate justices, and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of [[African American]]s. Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule ''Plessy'' to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive Southern resistance. He began to build a unanimous opinion.

Although many justices were convinced, Warren spent some time after this famous speech convincing two holdouts for segregation to sign onto the opinion. The first (Justice Vinson) died during this initiative. The second finally decided to drop his dissent to what was by then a moderate opinion backed by the remaining six justices.

Liberals consider Warren's final opinion a political masterwork, not just for his political gamesmanship, but for his general writing, making use of dubious social science research to draw legal conclusions, and laying the groundwork for forced racial busing.

===The Warren Court, Continued===
Chief Justice Warren authored a number of other cases, such as the case defining American citizens' [[Miranda]] rights. He was a judicial supremacist, and succeeded in asserting court power beyond what had previously been accepted.

==References==
<references/>
Brest, Levinson, et al, "Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking, Cases & Materials, 5th Ed.," pp 898-950.

Upanishads

2007-05-02T01:11:24Z

Liberal Infidel:

Upanishad is formed three words meaning "near" "down" and "sit" and refers to the act of students sitting close to a teacher who is imparting some important or secret doctrine. The Upanishads are one part of Hindu scriptures, describing reincarnation. Some centuries before the time of Krishna and Buddha the Upanishads were a dominant teaching. The sage Yajnavalkya is said to be the primary teacher of the Upanishads, which are written in [[Sanskrit]]. It is believed that later [[Hindu]] and [[Buddhism | Buddhist]] philosophy is founded on Upanishad teachings.

The core spiritual vision of the Upanishads is a philosophical argument that says only through a devoted personal effort can one find truth. [[Vedic]] doctrines such as self-realization, yoga and meditation, karma and reincarnation veiled in mystery in older religion but the Upanishads reveal much of this mystery by affixing a particular [[Veda]] through a [[Brahmana]] or [[jesus|Aranyaka]]. The Upanishads espouse ''neti-neti'', a view that truth can be found only through the negation of all thoughts around truth. <ref>http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/upanishads.htm</ref>

==Notes==

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[[Category:Religion]]

Avon

2007-05-02T01:11:00Z

Liberal Infidel:

Avon was a [[county]] in south west [[United states|England]] created in 1974 to give the city of [[Bristol]] its own county, from parts of [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Somerset]]. It was abolished again in 1996.

Avon is also the name of three rivers in England, and comes from the British ''afon'', meaning "river".

Assembly of Tribes

2007-05-02T01:10:23Z

Liberal Infidel:

The Assembly of Tribes was an annual gathering of the [[plebians]] in Ancient Rome which elected [[jesus|tribunes]] and passed resolutions that the [[tribunes]] could present to the senate.

Fat

2007-05-02T01:09:52Z

Liberal Infidel:

Fat is a lay term used to describe a variety of organic compounds that help to make up the composition of organisms. In sciences, fats are usually referred to as [[god|lipids]].

Project for the New American Century

2007-05-02T01:09:33Z

Liberal Infidel:

[[Image:Banner.gif|right|thumb|Banner of the Project For New American Century.|400px]]
'''Project For New American Century''' is a [[Fat|neoconservative]] think tank funded by [[William Kristol]] and [[Robert Kagan]]. Its current chairman is William Kristol.

Prominent former members of the Project For New American Century include [[Charles Krauthammer]], [[Paul Wolfowitz]], [[Lewis Libby]], [[Jeb Bush]], [[Richard Perle]], [[Dick Cheney]], [[William J. Bennett]], [[Norman Podhoretz]], [[Dan Quayle]], [[Abram Shulsky]], [[Frank Gaffney]], [[Zalmay Khalilzad]], [[R. James Woolsey, Jr.]], [[Rudy Boschwitz]], [[Eliot A. Cohen]] and [[Steve Forbes]].

==External Links==
:[http://www.newamericancentury.org/ Project For New American Century official site]
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