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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?

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Glenn Beck's Warped Hijacking of "9/12 America"

Will Bunch | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

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Beck promised a project that would be dedicated to America's "eternal principles" -- but the only eternal principle that Glenn Beck really holds is "Glenn Beck."

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Senate GOPers: Loosen Gun Laws To Defend Gay Rights

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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One month after successfully tucking an amendment into the credit card reform bill that expanded gun rights, a small number of Senate Republicans are ...

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MMIX: 2009 is the Year of the Handgun

Justin Callaway | Posted 02.02.2009 | Style

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I have never wanted a gun before, but I am seriously considering purchasing my first firearm. It's not just Obama-gun-snatching-fears, I also want to lock in my glock while I can still afford to.

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The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Right

Adam Winkler | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Civil Rights, Gun Control, Right to Bear Arms, Second Amendment, Dc v Heller, 2nd Amendment, Guns, Politics News

In June, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, D.C. v. Heller. So far, the victory hasn't turned out exactly as the gun rights folks had hoped.

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Judicial Activism: Playing with the Constitution

Wajahat Ali | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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People care deeply whether women have the right to choose. For those who favor abortion rights, the central aspect is of a woman's reproductive freedom, and therefore her liberty.

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Scalia's 2nd Amendment Punt

Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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The Second Amendment has always put me in a quandary, but Scalia's opinion was not an honest attempt at sorting it out. It was a sophistical, political decision of just the type that he rails against.

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DC v. Heller: Scalia's Decision Will Backfire

Adam Freedman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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So much for Scalia's much-vaunted "originalism," which advocates reading the Constitution as it would have been understood at the time of the Founding.

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After Heller, The Gun Lobby's "Slippery Slope" Is Gone; Reasonable Regulations Ahead

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

When the dust settles, most Americans -- and I believe even most in the gun violence prevention movement -- will come to see that there are some positives in this decision.

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Score One for the Gun Guys

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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While the gun lobby may crack open that bottle of champagne, this is a victory that thrives in theory, but one that, in practice, can only be condemned.

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A Key Right Recaptured

Joyce Lee Malcolm | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

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A government that cannot protect people should not deprive them of the right to protect themselves -- and the the D.C. gun ban did just that.

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DC Ban on Semiauto Handguns Stands

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

In its ruling, the Court brushed away our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence and accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous real-world results.

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I'll Trade You the 2nd Amendment for the 4th

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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If the Bush administration releases the fourth amendment that it is currently holding hostage, I'm happy to consider the Supreme Court decision on the second amendment final and decisive.

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The Biggest Triumph So Far for Gun Rights Advocates

James Jacobs | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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Today's Heller decision marks the biggest triumph so far for gun rights advocates. It establishes what was for so long denied, and the the gun control debate will never be the same.

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DC v. Heller: A Dismaying Performance By The Supreme Court

Sanford Levinson | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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If Scalia and Stevens were competent historians, then it might be worth reading what they write. But they are not. Both offer selective readings of history to support what seem to be pre-determined positions.

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Dick Cheney Wants Washington, DC to Emulate Baghdad

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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In the wake of today's Supreme Court ruling, the Bush administration has announced that it's ordering all citizens of voting age to possess firearms as a preventive measure against terrorist attacks.

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Bush v. Gore Meets the Second Amendment

Adam Winkler | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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There are some striking similarities between the Heller decision and Bush v. Gore. In both cases, the Court articulates a "new" right to be recognized by the Courts.

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Gun Control 101

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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Does the right to keep and bear arms apply directly to the People or to the States? How you answer this question ultimately determines whether or not you believe in an individual's right to own a gun.

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Supreme Court Gun Ruling Reactions

Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

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Following the Supreme Court's ruling fortifying 2nd Amendment gun rights, reactions are pouring in from politicians, pundits and bloggers. Barack Oba...

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