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26 February 2010

George W. Bush as motivational speaker

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After hearing last year that George W. Bush was going to embark on a career as a motivational speaker , all the predictable jokes and commen...
25 February 2010

Amnesty Intl USA to honor Howard Zinn at annual meeting

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As you may have heard, the great historian and writer Howard Zinn died on January 27th of an apparent heart attack. He will be missed. Mean...
24 February 2010

Tell Congress to condemn anti-gay legislation in Uganda

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If you tune in regularly to The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC or other progressive media, you may have heard about the "kill the gays...
23 February 2010

1000th U.S. troop has died in Afghan war. Vigils are being organized.

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We've reached a very sad milestone in the war in Afghanistan: 1,000 U.S. troops have now been killed in that conflict. To mark this tra...
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22 February 2010

Santorum continues bashing gays in the military while ignoring a real threat

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Even though we the people of Pennsylvania finally voted ultra-conservative Republican Rick Santorum out of the U.S. Senate in 2006 in favor ...
19 February 2010

The IRS plane crash and the color of terrorism

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When I first heard the news on Thursday that a plane had crashed into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, a person standing nearby speculated...
18 February 2010

Texas gives Skinner another month to live - and fight for his innocence

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We got good news yesterday from Texas Death Row: Hank Skinner , who was scheduled to be executed next week, now has another month to fight t...
17 February 2010

The pope's sex-abuse hypocrisy shows itself again

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According to the British newspaper The Guardian , Pope Benedict XVI called a meeting earlier this week with the bishops of the Irish Catholi...
16 February 2010

Does Bayh's retirement from the Senate really matter?

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Yesterday, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) announced that he will not be running for re-election. His stated reason: The overly partisan climate in...
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15 February 2010

Be thankful on Presidents' Day

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Today, the third Monday in February, is the Presidents' Day holiday in the U.S. This holiday used to honor George Washington's birt...
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12 February 2010

250th DNA exoneration

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On February 4th, Freddie Peacock, of Rochester, NY, became the 250th person in the U.S. to be exonerated via DNA testing. Peacock was convic...
11 February 2010

Record snowfalls do not disprove global warming

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Here in the Philadelphia area, and throughout the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S., we are in the process of recovering from record-breaking ...
10 February 2010

Can Palin win the White House?

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Much to the delight of her fans, Sarah Palin has been hinting that a 2012 run for the presidency is not out of the question. This news has ...
09 February 2010

Will Texas execute another innocent man this month?

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The reckless fallibility of the criminal justice system in capital cases came to light in a big way last year when a detailed investigative ...
08 February 2010

In tea party address, Palin stokes the anti-rights fire

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On February 6th, Sarah Palin gave the keynote address at a tea party convention in Nashville. As expected, I disagreed with just about ever...
05 February 2010

How al-Qaeda causes climate change

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In his latest audiotape, Osama bin Laden criticized the U.S. over climate change. And, while I have to agree that the U.S. has been quite g...
04 February 2010

Sudan's president may face genocide charges after all

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Will we ever see true accountability for the gross human rights violations in Darfur ? I'm starting to feel cautiously optimistic. Yest...
03 February 2010

More injustice at Justice Dept: Yoo and Bybee are off the hook

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In the early days of the Bush administration, lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee performed their semantic gymnastics to justify the use of tortu...
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02 February 2010

Terrorism trials belong in federal court

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Due to logistical concerns, it is now looking quite possible that the trials of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four acc...
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01 February 2010

In trial of Dr. Tiller's killer, justice has been served

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On Friday, January 29, a jury found Scott Roeder guilty of the murder last year of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller. Roeder shot Dr. ...
29 January 2010

Why George Ryan will not win the Peace Prize

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Earlier this month, Francis A. Boyle, professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Illinois, nominated former Illin...
28 January 2010

Plenty of money for the Pentagon, but not for the sick or the poor

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President Obama was good last night. In his State of the Union Address , he said the right things most of the time. But we always knew that...
27 January 2010

In criticizing Hillary, China shoots the messenger

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Chinese officials have been criticizing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her condemnation of China's Internet censorship. This c...
26 January 2010

Justice Dept. calls for injustice at Gitmo -- and Amnesty fights back

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Last Friday, the Washington Post reported that a task force led by the U.S. Justice Department "has concluded that nearly 50 of the 19...
25 January 2010

A giant leap towards fascism

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On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that some are calling the Court's biggest blunder since the Dred Scott Decision . ...
22 January 2010

Happy birthday, Roe v. Wade

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Today, January 22, 2010, marks the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade , which legalized abortion in the Uni...
21 January 2010

Does the Massachusetts election outcome really matter?

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On Tuesday, the voters of Massachusetts elected a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy. Gone is the 60-seat Democratic supermajority in the U.S...
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20 January 2010

Supremes throw Abu-Jamal case back to appeals court

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I am not a lawyer, but it appears to me that famed Pennsylvania death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal may be running out of legal options. Yester...
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19 January 2010

Will today's election seal the fate of health care reform?

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In a special election today, voters in Massachusetts will choose a new U.S. Senator who will complete the late Ted Kennedy's term. Unfor...
18 January 2010

Realizing the dream - one step at a time

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Today, the third Monday of January, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. -- a day set aside each year to honor the birth, life, and le...