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High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors
Is it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to send a juvenile away to prison for life, without the possibility of parole for a crime that does not involve a death? That's the question the Supreme Court ponders Monday. In 2005, the high court struck down the death penalty for juveniles by a 5 to-4 vote.The Real Tragedy of the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com Posted on July 22, 2009, Printed on July 22, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/141485/ Over the past several days a strange characterization of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has emerged. Many are portraying him as a radical who easily and inappropriately appeals to race as an excuse and explanation. This image of Gates is inaccurate.Could a Second Amendment case establish Fourteenth Amendment originalism?
Bill of Rights, Inc. Could a Second Amendment case establish Fourteenth Amendment originalism? By Will Haun The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided McDonald v.A NATION OF COWARDS
A NATION OF COWARDS Jeffrey R. Snyder OUR SOCIETY has reached a pinnacle of self-expression and respect for individuality rare or unmatched in history. Our entire popular culture -- from fashion magazines to the cinema -- positively screams the matchless worth of the individual, and glories in eccentricity, nonconformity, independent judgment, and self-determination.Is Obama Delaying Economic Recovery?
Is Obama Delaying Economic Recovery? By Peter Ferrara By now, the current recession is officially the longest since World War II. The National Bureau of Economic Research dates the recession as starting some time during December, 2007.A NATION OF COWARDS
A NATION OF COWARDS Jeffrey R. Snyder OUR SOCIETY has reached a pinnacle of self-expression and respect for individuality rare or unmatched in history. Our entire popular culture — from fashion magazines to the cinema — positively screams the matchless worth of the individual, and glories in eccentricity, nonconformity, independent judgment, and self-determination.Anything to disagree with here?
The Pragmatic Conceit A new empty wave. By Anthony Dick The consensus forming in anticipation of Barack Obama’s ascendancy is that, with apologies to Code Pink, pragmatism is the new black. The president-elect himself has encouraged this vogue, both explicitly in his rhetoric and implicitly in his recent cabinet appointments.Terrorists are not created from Poverty or Education
Hi All, After some earlier postings today, I thought I'd share with the group this great article from 2003 that analyzes why terrorists are not a result of poverty or lack of education. (As most terrorists are well educated, did not grow up in poverty, speak multiple languages and carry with them more world experience than most Americans, not thus are breed from fundamentalist beliefs.) http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i39/39b01001.htm Seeking the Roots of Terrorism By ALAN B. KRUEGER and JITKA MALECKOVÁ In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a consensus quickly emerged that poverty and lack of education were major causes of terrorist acts and support for terrorism.Rowling completes post-Harry Potter book
LONDON - J.K. Rowling has completed her first book not to feature teen wizard Harry Potter an illustrated collection of magical fairy stories titled "The Tales of Beedle the Bard." Only seven copies of the book are being printed, Rowling said Thursday.
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