John F. Kennedy support a tax rate of 75%

Which, at the time, was a cut of 16%

back civil rights

Republicans did back civil rights in the 1950s and 60s.

injecting billions of government dollars into the nation’s space program

Better that than the NEA and NPR

Now, they only seem to protest for what the Party believes in

This has already been commented on in #26 but I will second the point. John Kennedy would be a Republican today. In foreign policy he was weak but his economic philosophy would not fit the Democrats today, nor would Harry Truman fit except for his pro-union stance but unions in those days were part of the private system. Nobody thought of public employee unions at that time. Or teachers’ unions, for that matter.

Take a look at some high school history text books, for example. I used to have my cousin’s high school world history book from 1938. I read it a couple of times when I was about 13. It began with items like the Punic Wars and the Doric invasion. Do you think a Harvard freshman would know what those were ? That was world history at Hirsch High School in Chicago, 1938.

I don’t understand this, legally. The “offending” video was taped BY Founding Bloggers, right? Then FB owns the copyright, right? CNN has ZERO ownership of the footage, even though their “talent” is on camera…right? And any CNN footage used by FB in this case falls well within “fair use”…right?

The Founding Bloggers video at issue included about about 1 minute, 20 seconds of CNN footage, as well as about 2 minutes, 30 seconds of footage shot by Founding Bloggers. CNN owns copyright in its own footage; FB owns copyright in the footage that it shot (even though that footage depicts Roesgen). And yes: I think FB’s incorporation of the CNN footage into its video was fair use.