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Happy Constitution Day!
10:44AM ON
09/17/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
Although Rhode Island actually sent no representatives to that fateful convention in 1787, let’s not let that stop anyone from celebrating!
Actually, there’s a pretty phat lecture today at 3 pm at Brown, entitled “Was the New Deal a Good Deal,” featuring NYU Law Profs Richard Epstein and Samuel Issacharoff. Info here.
For those of you not in the know, Constitution Day was created when Sen. Robert Byrd inserted a provision into No Child left Behind mandating that all public schools and schools recieving public funding mention the consitution somehow on or about the date of September the 17th. This venerable holiday is thus less than a decade old.
Can’t make the lecture? You can celebrate by Watching Sen. Byrd caterwaul on the floor of the United States Senate:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V95eGgZbrU]
September 17th, 2008 at 4:45PM
joe bernstein Says:
Watching and listening to this former Klansman ought to be substituted for waterboarding at Guantanamo-they’d tell us the whole plan just to not have to endure him.
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