Category: Politics and Current Events
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Law prof Jay Wexler looks at the recent ruling on the use of “Under God” in the pledge of allegiance and finds the court’s conclusion Constitutionally dubious.
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David Bacon looks at a new proposal for immigration reform and calls for something better.
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Maggie Kast had to come to terms with the “R” word in her own life. In this post, she looks at different perspectives on its usage as a slang insult and as a designation.
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A psychiatrist’s analysis of the rhetoric of the right: how transference, displacement, and defense mechanisms manifest themselves in Limbaugh and Beck’s latest attacks.
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Current Beacon contests and links to good reading.
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The author of The LIfe We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam finds troubling historical parallels in the Haitian orphan debate.
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Two veteran pollsters pick the worst of last year’s polling.
Beacon Broadside 