Alias “Paine”: Lewis Thornton Powell, the Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy
Though Cowards Flinch (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Powell memo was written by Lewis F. Powell to Eugene Sydnor, Director of the US Chamber of Commerce, in 1971. Powell was a member of the board of eleven corporations and was shortly to be nominated by President Richard Nixon to the US Supreme Court. I only came across this memo care of David [...]
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The Wall Street Journal has devoted an entire article to Tom Donohue's - the president of the US Chamber of Commerce - portraying him as a victim of the Obama White House, just like the propaganda... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The attacks on the administration and its allies for deciding to shun Fox News are so cute. This is my favorite : In [Obama's] America there is no Constitution, there is no First Amendment, there are no principles of free speech or free press . As all good children know, the silent treatment renders the person to whom it's administered incapable of saying anything . They can't run around shouting,...
FutureOfCapitalism.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Via James Surowiecki comes a link to the Powell Memo, a document written in August 1971 by lawyer Lewis Powell (soon to be elevated to the Supreme Court) for the Chamber of Commerce reporting that "the American economic system is under broad attack,"
Walled-In Pond (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The spiritual ancestor of the Michael Weiner/"Savage-Glenn Beck-Bill O'Reilly-Sean Hannity brigade of ideological bullies, thugs, and gunsels--the shock-troops of what Krugman called "zombie-Reaganism, was the man who would later become Associate Justice of the SCOTUS, Lewis Powell. The story of the so-called Powell Memo, and its balefully enduring influence is the subject of a fascinating...
Last Left Turn Before Hooterville (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Every time I try to institute something "of the week" on this poor blog, it never gets very far. My ADD sees to that. Consistency? I think not! Nevertheless, since I am on the executive board of my local chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and have been involved with this fine organization for the last 3 years or so, I'm going to attempt a regular feature of a church-state...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
The last time we heard much about a Supreme Court justice dancing was after Sandra Day O'Connor joined the Court in 1981. The late justice Lewis Powell Jr. would boast to anyone listening that he had won the distinction of...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The voice of business Do companies have a right to free speech? Yet the word “corporation” appears nowhere in the constitution or Bill of Rights. “It is scarcely conceivable that the drafters of the constitution had anything resembling corporate entities in mind when they drafted the Bill of Rights,” argue Robert Monks, a veteran corporate-governance activist, and Peter Murray,...
RSD Reports (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
By Patrick J. Buchanan When Republicans were warned not to give Sonia Sotomayor the drubbing Democrats gave Robert Bork and Sam Alito — lest they be perceived as sexist and racist by women and Hispanics — the threat was credible, for it underscored a new reality in American politics. The Supreme Court, far from being the last redoubt of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant in America, reflects...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 05/17/2009
The Powell Manifesto The Powell Memorandum was written in 1971 by conservative attorney Lewis Powell. It is a recipe and a blueprint for organizing business executives and think tanks to further the conservative movement. It is the source of the Culture War. Everything the Republicans have done in the last 38 years is derived from this document. Every time poor people are convinced to side with tax...
Legal Pad (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
If Carlos Moreno gets the call from President Obama for the U.S. Supreme Court, he would be the oldest nominee to the court since President Nixon nominated Lewis Powell in 1971. Moreno, a former federal judge and California Supreme Court...
peacocks and lilies (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Mary Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (1817-1865) Mary Surratt was the first woman executed in America. On April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln. His co-conspirator, Lewis Powell, stabbed (but did not kill) Secretary of State William Seward, third in line for the presidency. Another conspirator, George Atzerodt, [...]
peacocks and lilies (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Mary Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (1817-1865) Mary Surratt was the first woman executed in America. On April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln. His co-conspirator, Lewis Powell, stabbed (but did not kill) Secretary of State William Seward, third in line for the presidency. Another conspirator, George Atzerodt, [...]
DCRepublican.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
From George Will: In 1978, in a case regarding racial preferences in admissions to a California medical school, the Supreme Court ruled, in an opinion written by Justice Lewis Powell, that race can be considered a “plus” factor for minority applicants. But Powell’s biographer, John Jeffries of the University of Virginia law school, writes that when [...]
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