{"id":1388,"date":"2009-04-14T05:30:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2009-04-14T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:30:55","slug":"bill-of-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Bill of fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's Clarence Thomas<\/a>, deep legal thinker, on civil rights:<\/p>\n

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“Today there is much focus on our rights,” Justice Thomas said. “Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights.”<\/p>\n

“I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded<\/strong> those with grievances,” he said. “Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for our Bill of Obligations and our Bill of Responsibilities?”<\/p>\n

He gave examples: “It seems that many have come<\/strong> to think that each of us is owed prosperity and a certain standard of living. They’re owed air-conditioning, cars, telephones, televisions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh I bet you can find someone who thinks that they have a right to party as well–which, actually, they do.  But it's depressing to think a Supreme Court Justice has so little regard for the kinds of legal grievances he's supposed to be thinking about.   <\/p>\n

via Steve Benen<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's Clarence Thomas, deep legal thinker, on civil rights: “Today there is much focus on our rights,” Justice Thomas said. “Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights.” “I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded those with grievances,” he said. “Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for … Continue reading Bill of fair<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[498,499,1964,500],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-straw-man","tag-clarence-thomas","tag-rights","tag-straw-man","tag-washington-monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}