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No Place for Rush Limbaugh in Hall of Famous Missourians

Randy Turner | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Walt Disney, John Ashcroft, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Tilley, Hall of Famous Missourians, Stan Musial, Walter Cronkite, Harry Truman, Sexism, Racism, Dred Scott, Sandra Fluke, Barack Obama, Buck O'Neil, Media News

The timing of Missouri Speaker of the House Steve Tilley's announcement that he had named Rush Limbaugh to the Hall of Famous Missourians could not have been any worse.

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Immigration 'Linsanity'

David Leopold | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Constitutional Citizenship, Immigration, Jeremy Lin, Birthright Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Immigrants, Dred Scott, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News

Lin might not be playing for the Knicks, or for any other team in the NBA, if the anti-immigrant restrictionists had their way.

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You Are What You Know

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dred Scott, Colegrove v. Green, George Washington, Felix Frankfurter, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ron Chernow, New York News

In law, people may be found competent or incompetent to be accountable for criminal their behavior. With public officials, we are writing about crime in an attenuated sense.

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WATCH: Congressional Candidate Badly Stumbles On Supreme Court Question

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jon Runyan Congress, New Jersey, 2010 Elections, Jon Runyan Dred Scott, New Jersey 2010, Jon Runyan, Jon Runyan New Jersey, Runyan, Dred Scott, Dred Scott Decision, Runyan Dred Scott, Dred Scott Runyan, Elections 2010, Video, Politics News

New Jersey GOP Congressional candidate Jon Runyan has spent a large part of the last 13 years on a football field, and a recent debate response given ...

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Citizens United -- Game Changer

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Tea Party, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell, Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama, Antonin Scalia, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, Corporate Power, Citizens United, Crossroads GPS, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Rahm Emanuel, David Brooks, David Axelrod, American Future Fund, Political Corruption, Dred Scott, Bruce Rastetter, Chamber of Commerce, Anthony Kennedy, Republican Party, Ed Gillespie, Franklin Roosevelt, Rick Santelli, Politics News

We can't really predict what will happen on November 2. All we know is that the historical trends are pushing against the Democrats, and that Citizens United has definitively tipped the scales in favor of the oligarchy.

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Parents, Children, and Citizenship by Birth

Paul Finkelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Dred Scott, Arizona Immigration Law, Illegal Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News

Republican leaders have proposed amending the Constitution to deny citizenship to children born in the US but whose parents are undocumented. As law professors we oppose this, not only for historical and legal reasons, but on deeply personal grounds.

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Flag Raising Robester

Will Durst | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rumaki, 14th Amendment, Proposition 8, Egg McMuffins, Brown v. Board of Education, Vaughan Walker, Dred Scott, Taliban, Same-Sex Marriage, Comedy News

When Chief U.S. District Justice Vaughan Walker overturned California's Proposition 8, he loosed the bonds. Broke the chains. Raised a rainbow flag. And reopened a can of worms the size of the Louisiana Purchase.

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Obama v. Roberts: A Pseudo Event

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Abraham Lincoln, Chief Justice John Roberts, Dred Scott, Franklin Roosevelt, President Barack Obama, Judicial Nominations, Politics News

ABC evening news offered us the ultimately silly and misplaced story of John Roberts' remarks about Obama's criticism of his Court's recent ruling. Once again, historical memory is sacrificed to the interests of a "good story."

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Randy Credico vs Chuck Schumer and the Drug Laws (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Randy Credico is a former comedian turned political activist/drug law reformer. Now, he'd like to take on and challenge Senator Chuck Schumer for his seat in the Senate.

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An American History Lesson for Pat Buchanan

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, Dred Scott, Civil War, Rachel Maddow, 54th Massachusetts, Roger Taney, Glory, Buchanan, Politics News

Yes, no black men signed the Declaration. They were consigned to the plantations of many of the men who did the signing, putting food on their tables and money in their purses.

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