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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Arrested in New York
Police in New York City have corralled and arrested protesters attempting to march across the Brooklyn Bridge, according to media reports. One woman claimed New York Police …
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California’s Prison Hunger Strike Is Back on
Prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison’s Secure Housing Unit who led a monthlong hunger strike in July say prison officials have not made good on promises to meet their …
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Would the Founders Back Health Law?
Today’s American Right is fond of pushing the idea of “originalist” thinking by the Founders to rally opposition to government initiatives that address modern-day problems. The claim is that …
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Edmund Burke and American Conservatism
It has become a truism that modern American conservatism is revolutionary in the sense that it seeks to overturn the established order rather than to preserve it. “Reagan Revolution,” …
Keystone Hearing in Nebraska Sandhills Draws Mostly Critics, and Passions Flare
Atkinson, Neb. - People began arriving at West Holt Junior-Senior High School before noon on Thursday, some in pickups or cars from nearby ranches and farms, others in buses …
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California School Spending Among Lowest in Nation
Budget shortfalls have pushed California's spending on public schools to a historic low, relative to the rest of the United States, according to a new analysis by the California …
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Gandhi’s Lesson for Today
(Photo: Wikimedia) In a soon-to-be published book entitled Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiments with Truth, Jim Douglass contrasts the deadly machinations of Gandhi's probable killers …
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Judging a Long, Deadly Reach
Anwar al-Awlaki. (Photo: Wikimedia) Washington - The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by …
Limitless Space: Computerized Dataveillance Since 9/11
(Photo: Jonathan McIntosh / Flickr) Hundreds of state, local and federal databases clog our nation's digital infrastructure, collecting, sharing and hoarding inconceivable amounts of information about ordinary …
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Pentagon Says Chaplains May Perform Gay Weddings
Washington - The Defense Department issued new guidelines Friday that allow military chaplains to officiate at same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such weddings are …