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Equality Not Subject To Voters

August 5, 2010

Rand Paul, GOP senate candidate from Kentucky, says that a white lunch counter proprietor should have the guaranteed right of free speech at his own establishment. That free speech, according to the libertarian and Tea Party candidate Paul, can include refusal to serve blacks, or any other race, religion or creed, for that matter. The [...]

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Drones, Activist Judges And "Tools"

June 29, 2010

Do you know what's in more demand than Apples' newest I-Phone? Drones. Everybody wants one….needs one. They're all the rage. Tornado researchers want to send them into storms to gather data. Energy companies want to use them to monitor pipelines. State police hope to send them up to capture images of speeding cars' license plates. [...]

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Criminalizing Peacemaking

June 22, 2010

Peacemaking is just so Jimmy Carter, anyway, right? New ruling yesterday from the hyper-activist Roberts Court…. The Supreme Court upheld the government's authority Monday to ban aid to designated terrorist groups, even when that support is intended to steer the groups toward peaceful and legal activities. …… The justices voted 6-3 to reject a free-speech [...]

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Adjusta-Sentencing

May 18, 2010

I've heard it often…bet you have too. "They should never let those sex perverts out of jail." The Supreme Court of the U.S agrees, and by a 7-2 margin voted to grant the federal government the authority to hold certain sex "predators" in prison AFTER those "predators" have served their full prison sentences. Kansas and [...]

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Obama Disappoints Again

May 10, 2010

Barack Obama's campaign theme as he ran for president was "change we can believe in." He delivered that message in a compelling fashion and tens of millions of Americans responded. After Obama was elected by a clear mandate from the American people, an incoherent, angry astroturf far right movement developed. The Tea Party was born. [...]

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Nation In Trouble?

April 24, 2010

The signs have been there for some time now. There was the Kangaroo Kourt that Republicans called the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton. It seemed surrealistic at the time. That's because it was. There was the Supreme Court selection of the president in the 2000 election cycle. There have been 3 huge financial disasters in [...]

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In-Our-Face, Activist Court

January 21, 2010

I think you might remember, I told you this was going to happen….and just in time for the 2010 election cycle….I'm very much looking forward to the WWM, (WingnutMania-Media) spectaculars this fall. Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not [...]

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Neo-Con Words Matter

January 8, 2010

Almost cartoonishly…..check that…..cartoonishly, Republican political opportunists, like Peter King (R-NY), have been chastising President Obama for not using the words "terror" and "terrorist" enough when communicating to the American people. "I think one main thing would be to — just himself, to use the word terrorism more often." The as yet undicted war criminal, Richard [...]

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They Write Lists

December 31, 2009

Lots of lists are being written about the decade that's ending tonight. The aughts, the decade has been officially labeled. Should be called the ought-nots. My favorite list is entitled "The top ten worst things about the Bush decade." Many readers, I'm just so certain, will enjoy reading Juan Cole's list. Here's Cole's #1 top [...]

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Theater Of The Absurd

July 14, 2009

Watch Senator Clown's opening act here. Connecticut firefighter, Frank Ricci, will testify on Thursday in the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. What he knows about Supreme Court Justice qualifications, I have no idea. But he'll make a good prop for the circus Republicans are hoping to run in the Senate hearing room this week. Read on…. Frank [...]

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