JFP Staff Blog archive for July, 2015

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Sandra Bland Traffic Stop Video Hits YouTube

The Texas Department of Safety has posted a 52-minute video of the Sandra Bland traffic stop, showing the state trooper threaten Bland with a Taser, a detail that he didn't put in his arrest report.

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#FlagMyths: 'The Civil War Was Fought Over... Tariffs'

In an occasional blog series I'm inaugurating here, I'd like to pull forward some debate that's happening in the comments and examine a variety of the myths and legends that surround the South's participation in the civil war. From the comments section came this one from Claude Shannon: The war …