Ewan Compton

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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission may prove to be historic. As has become all too common, the decision was 5-4, with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts finding state and federal laws regulating the amount that corporations and other organizations can pay for television and radio advertisement to be unconstitutional The Court ruled that because corporations are legal persons, the money they use to influence elections is protected free speech under the First Amendment.

Friday, November 13th, 2009

It wasn’t your typical natural history exhibit.

Animatronic models of humans coexisted with friendly dinosaurs. Though one might have expected the dinosaurs to make a snack of people lazing about nearby, Jurassic Park-style, they seemed perfectly content eating carrots or other vegetables. The whole scene might have recalled The Flintstones, but this, the exhibit told us, was the early history of the human species.