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Category: Politics and Current Events
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What Constitutional Odd Clauses apply to the Occupy Wall Street movement?
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Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock writes about the Occupy movement and its relationship to the Obama campaign and presidency.
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Today is Constitution Day (observed). Constitution Day is really celebrated on September 17th, but we can’t be trusted to acknowledge the document that grants us our rights and freedoms on a Saturday, can we?
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Amie Klempnauer Miller and her wise daughter have some words for the presidential candidate.
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David R. Dow visited Rick Perry’s “The Response” this past weekend, and found the rally less than inspiring.
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When Laurie Essig read the Andrew Breivik manifesto, she was struck by how much it sounded like the threatening email she regularly receives.
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Mark Winne looks at the House GOP plan to balance the budget at the expense of the poor.
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Jay Wexler discusses one of the Odd Clauses of the Constitution, and whether President Obama has the authority to raise the debt ceiling.
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Michael Avery is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Suffolk University School of Law. Saturday, July 2, was Thurgood Marshall’s birthday, and it is high time President Obama remembers who Marshall was and what he meant to the struggle for civil rights and social justice in this country. Obama should announce now that at the…
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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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