Dr. John Calvin Jones, PhD, JD

BC Columnist Dr John Calvin Jones, PhD, JD, has a law degree and a PhD in Political Science. His Website is virtualcitizens.com. Click here to contact Dr. Jones. [1] See Sara Harris. 2007. “Meth exposure in young adults leads to long-term behavioral consequences.” Society for Neuroscience, public release 14 August. Online at: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/sfn-mei081307.php#. Contact Ms.…

For those of us who have studied or been exposed to classical Greek philosophy, we know how philosophers and teachers in that era, Socrates, Protagoras, and other Sophists, valued and equated ideals of truth and beauty and justice. Given their search and beliefs, what did it mean at the level of law and politics? These…

The current issue is always free to all readers On 4 June 2007, in two separate cases, two different military judges dismissed charges against two detainee/defendants, Salim Hamdan, and Omar Khadr. Respectively, the men were to be arraigned as the first step in their prosecutions via a newly crafted American system of Kafkaesque justice called…

Basking in the reflection of the rows of thousands of white headstones at a cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, standing before a crowd of White Supremacists, warmongers, and elite media microphones and cameras, during the Memorial Day observance, G. W. Bush made the following pronouncement. He called all those killed in previous and current American wars…

The current issue is always free to all readers What if there’s a time bomb ticking? Tick, tick, tick… what if a time bomb were ticking? So did Brit Hume posed the question while speaking with a panel of would-be Emperor-Presidents. But like so many public spectacles and mediated diversions, inquiries and discussions about the…

Unbalanced? Check! If you review a standard American government textbook (employed at any level from elementary, middle, high school or with undergraduates), you will see various sections, if not entire chapters, explaining that there are three branches of government, that said branches are relatively autonomous, and that each branch can exercise control over the others.…

Sex, Lies, and Wars of Terror The recent revelations about Mr. Randall Tobias, another disgraced Bush-moralist, are mildly amusing. Formerly the deputy secretary of USAID and charged with pushing the Bush administration’s sex policy (abstinence over condoms and hypocrisy over prostitution), Mr. Tobias, like another former White House advisor, Rev. Ted Haggard, was part of…

On Friday, 30 March 2007, NPR announced that the 15 year-old, Shaquanda Cotton, was to be released from the prison system called the Texas Youth Authority. The facts surrounding Ms. Cotton’s case demonstrate the ways in which White supremacy and class oppression crush people in the vice of the American police-state. That she will be…

The Blinded Leading the Blind I used to teach courses in government and politics at a small college at South College in South Texas (and I mean south – 260 miles south of San Antonio). Though there was to be some sort of check on the competence and baseline knowledge of the faculty, i.e. that…