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Category: Frederick S. Lane
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An atheist organization is suing to prevent the installation of a cross-shaped piece of debris at Ground Zero. Their case has come under fire, but Fred Lane looks at the constitutional issues at stake.
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You may not want to explain the details of Anthony Weiner’s public disgrace to your kids, but if you keep mum, you may be missing a chance to teach your kids some valuable lesson.
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“You Have the Right to Remain Silent”
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Frederick S. Lane makes an immodest proposal for airline safety in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.
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Frederick S. Lane looks at the Constitutional issues posed by the group of politicians at 133 C Street, otherwise known as “The Family.”
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Frederick Lane looks at the history of anti-Census fervor.
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Four and a half years ago, during the halftime show for the 2004 Super Bowl, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson set off a heated national debate about televised decency when Timberlake pulled off part of Jackson’s bustier and revealed her right breast.
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It is no secret that the evangelical wing of the Republican Party has some strong reservations about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. The “agents of intolerance” charge that McCain leveled at Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell during the 2000 primary, for instance, has not been forgotten. Nor were evangelicals pleased when McCain…
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Roughly a month ago, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in United States v. Williams that upheld the consitutionality of the Prosecutorial Remedies and other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (The PROTECT Act). The 7-2 decision is the latest in a disturbing line of Congressional actions…
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The Religious Right has successfully spent the last thirty years putting the fear of God into Republican presidential candidates. Those who deviate from the evangelical political liturgy are threatened with the special purgatory of corporate golf games and Viagra ads reserved for unsuccessful Republican nominees. And of all the hymns aspirants are required to memorize,…
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