Equal Justice for Some
Since the start of the financial crisis, Wall Street criminal activity has resulted in no arrests or prosecutions.
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May 31, 2012
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Retro in the Extreme
America's government may be deeply infiltrated and corrupted by big business, but Britain's system does not even have the coherent artifice of accountable and electable government.
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May 29, 2012
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Stonewall: Freedom Overdue
A gay bar could expect to be raided at least once a month, no matter what “payoff” they gave to the NYPD. The Stonewall Inn was one of those bars.
May 26, 2012
CISPA: Your Internet Service Provider and Your Rights
Called “the son of SOPA” by its critics, CISPA was designed to provide a safer Internet to its users; however, the approach that the government has taken to attain this goal is costing its users their privacy.
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May 10, 2012
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Equality Starts in the Classroom
According to the Center for Disease Control, just having a gay straight alliance group in a school dramatically decreases depression, marijuana and alcohol abuse, suicidal thoughts and unexcused absences, imagine the positive outcome if an inclusive history were taught.
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May 4, 2012
Where Has Public Trust Gone?
Somewhere near the beginning of the 1980s, the small surge in trust came with the leadership of Ronald Reagan whose engaging and can-do personality gave Americans a lift, that is until deregulation led to the Savings and Loan debacle, which taxpayers bailed out...
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May 1, 2012
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The Lamest Duck
Since our government has no fixed term of office (unlike most civilised nations), Cameron can push back his termination of office to 2015, but how he could ever rescue the possibility of re-election seems non-existent. (I say 're-election' for sake of argument; the reality is no one voted for this Frankenstein's monster of a government.)
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April 25, 2012
Not All Choice is Free: Why demand religious exemption for contraception, but not the death penalty, torture, or unjust war?
By Louis A. Ruprecht, Religion Dispatches On November 2, 1984, Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962, and the first to be executed in the State of North Carolina after the nationwide moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976. She was…
April 5, 2012
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A Long Way From Port Stanley
April 2nd 2012 was the 30th anniversary since the army of Argentina made an amphibious landing around the settlement of Port Stanley, the largest town on a miserable, lonely speck of land stranded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that goes by the name of Islas Malvinas, or,…
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April 4, 2012
Strike 5 & Some 50 Million Are Out!
By OcJim I am appalled to see that at least a couple of members of our esteemed Supreme Court, whom we expect to be the bastions of objectivity, are openly repeating the most biased of the Tea Party type arguments against health care reform. Oral arguments by justices unfortunately…
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April 2, 2012