Thursday, July 09, 2015

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

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by Gil Hoy A divided Supreme Court on Monday turned aside claims by death-row inmates that a drug to be used in their executions would...

THREE STRIKES NO MORE

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by Claire Day On June 26, the United States Supreme Court ruled the federal Three-Strikes Law unconstitutional. In Johnson vs. United ...

JIGGERY-POKERY

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by Max Gutmann Image source: DonkeyHotey “Jiggery-pokery! Now it's just SCOTUScare!” Grumbled Scalia, en- Raged at ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

THE FISH WAS BORN ON FRIDAY

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by Clara B. Jones Prospect Park tunnel by TurnoftheSue I am Mexican, but my immigration status is none of your business. I am no ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

A NEWEST COUNTRY'S ABUSES

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by Valerie Sonnenthal Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty . Rights investigators from the UN mission in the Republic of South Sudan (Unm...

THE PAINTED FACES

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by Vidya Panicker It was business as usual at brothel 59 in Delhi's GB Road, which houses more than 4,000 sex workers. What was un...
Monday, July 06, 2015

FORMALITY

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by Peleg Held Upon a bench one long sought June a court has crawled from its cocoon in a winged deliberation if water should de...

AUTUMN LEAVES

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by Lind Grant-Oyeye Image source:  It's okay, to be a flaming homosexual Like the rainbow, seasons to speak Like the sun, se...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

AFTER THE ESCAPE FROM PRISON IN DANNEMORA

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by Alejandro Escudé New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin hold a news conference in front of the Clinton Co...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

MY FLAG

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by Marilyn Peretti At the mic on the sidewalk some kids say justice is the meaning of the Fourth, some say fireworks , some so...

BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR

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by Jean L. Kreiling You gasp and smile at bright chrysanthemums that bloom for just a moment in the sky, and hardly give a thought...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

WHAT THE 4TH OF JULY MEANS TO ME

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by George Salamon Myths chain our minds. Shibboleths cull our words. Cynicism corrodes our expectations. Lassitude lulls our vigil...

KLANSMEN

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by William Ruleman The self-proclaimed largest Ku Klux Klan group in America plans to rally outside the South Carolina statehouse next...
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

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by F.I. Goldhaber Image source:  The Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness First Abraham Lincoln let them live longer than peopl...