Tag: justice
group name: politicsjustice
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July 21, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
In the light of the interest that my article about the death penalty stirred, I thought I would share this story I just read in the Associated Press.
It seems that in 2005, three men who had spent . . .
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July 19, 2009 01:52 PM EDT --
The death penalty. How do you feel about it?
Did you know that since 1973, 130 people have been released from death rows around the country due to new evidence which proved they were innocent? Some . . .
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November 13, 2008 06:31 PM EST --
While I don't believe this is going to stop all the killing and brutality in Darfur, the fact that Bashir has been forced to declare a ceasefire is definitely encouraging, and means that he is feeling . . .
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October 19, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Larry Langford is in trouble with the law. The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has been accused of accepting bribes to steer business to friends when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. . . .
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May 26, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
I got this in my email from UUSC (the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee)
"UUSC is excited to announce the 2008 Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Journey, which will . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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July 09, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
On Tuesday, 7 U.N. -AU peacekeepers were killed and 22 wounded when they were attacked by about 200 assailants on horseback and in SUVS with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The peacekeeping force . . .
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May 28, 2009 03:24 PM EDT --
I got this from a friend, who got it from nolo.com
Legal Benefits of Marriage
Tax Benefits
• Filing joint income tax returns with the IRS and state taxing authorities. • Creating a "family . . .
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October 15, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Each day that passes the fundamental contradictions of our society and its political institutions becomes more profound and fundamentally disturbing.
I recall a wise saying of one of our greatest . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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October 05, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
The perky lady with the video camera made her way around the tables at the high school reunion. She explained that she was making a YouTube video.
“What would you like to say to the kids in . . .
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July 24, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
Here is a video of justice gone awry. Kids act up and horse-play and do impulsive things all the time. This boy got silly in the hallway and slapped a friend's butt. According . . .
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January 29, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
As a high school teacher one day in history class I asked the students why are we the world police? I got a lot of blank looks back, one student said "the constitution?" I ask you on what basis . . .
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July 01, 2007 04:55 PM EDT --
The chief prosecutor of St Louis is preparing to release a report that took two years to develop that may show that convicted murderer Larry Griffin, executed in 1995, was innocent of the crime. . . .
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December 14, 2007 04:29 PM EST --
The New Jersey legislature is set to pass a bill to abolish the death penalty and the Governor has said he will sign the bill into law, becoming the first state in forty years to . . .
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January 17, 2009 11:57 PM EST --
Ms. America
A strong, proud woman
Brought to her knees
By eight long years
Of self-serving greed.
Bowing under the weight
Of a warrant-less war
Bringing death and destruction
To our door. . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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August 17, 2009 03:58 PM EDT --
Glory be! If you've been reading my articles on here, you know about Troy Davis, the most likely innocent man on Georgia's death row. Today, the Supreme Court voted 6-2 to grant Troy a new hearing! He . . .
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June 24, 2006 12:56 AM EDT --
On Dec 7, 1989, Carlos De Luna was executed in Texas for a murder in Corpus Christi. But a Chicago Tribune investigation has uncovered evidence he was not the killer:
According to NBC Nightline . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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