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There is nothing new under the sun
Re: Re: Funny because it's a ridiculous statement -- homer	Post Reply		Forum

Posted by: crossbowman
07/14/2008, 18:33:08

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I point you to the "Roaring Twenties",

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

the era after WW-I, when increasing affluence and a mistrust of the governments and social conventions that had brought that devastating war brought the Flappers, gay social clubs, Prohibition and the mob wars over control of the illicit alcohol trade, and - since increasing sexual experimentation was not compensated by improvements in medical technology to prevent conception (i.e., they didn't have The Pill) - an increase in abortion, though it remained illegal in most circumstances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper

Liberalized attitudes seems to be a natural reaction to any large-scale event that causes loss of trust in social institutions. This generally prompts some kind of conservative counter-reaction, and then society generally settles into some new equilibrium state between the two extremes.

"Robbins’s claim fails because the Hobbs Act does not apply when the National Government is the intended beneficiary of the allegedly extortionate acts."

WILKIE ET AL. v. ROBBINS. David H. Souter, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

with John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy,

Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito concurring.

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