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Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection

Linda Milazzo | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

Read More: House of Representatives, Newspapers, Chevron, Attorney General Holder, Criminal Prosecution, Enron, President Barack Obama, Television Networks, Energy Policy, Democrats, Imperial Presidency, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Blogs, Constitution, Exxon, Keep America Safe, 2012 Presidential Election, Media Manipulation, Liz Cheney, Radio, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Fox News, Paul Krugman, Republicans, Unitary Executive, Senate, Magazines, Media News

Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.

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Coalition Launches National Campaign: President Obama, Get FISA Right!

Mark Dorlester | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Patriot Act, 4th Amendment, Constitution, Nsl, FISA Renewal, Barack Obama, Get Fisa Right, Politics News

Now the Get FISA Right movement has spread far beyond Obama's campaign supporters. In Congress, the rush is on

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The Beijing Amendment To The Constitution

David O. Stewart | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Constitution, Economy, President Obama, Poltiics, Fourteenth Amendment, Politics News

Is the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution all that stands between us and even gloomier economic times? With China holding $800 billion of Unite...

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We the Populists: How to Make Taxpayer Funded Bailouts Toxic

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Constitution, Business, Constitution, Unions, Seiu, Business News

Want to join in the fun? Call Goldman's executive offices at (212) 902-1000, and tell them that nobody makes big profits at public expense while 10.2 percent of Americans are unemployed.

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Reject False Choices Between Law Enforcement & Military

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Zacarias Moussaoui, Law Enforcement, Military Tribunal, Terrorists, President Obama, 9/11, Founding Fathers, George F. Will, Independent Judiciray, John Kerry, Constitution, Separation of Powers, Prosecutors, London Terror, False Choices, Politics News

As Obama tasks our independent judiciary with trying more suspected 9/11 terrorists, count me among those who agree with Mayor Giuliani's first position on trying alleged terrorists in US courts: in the yes column

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Justice American Style

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ksm, Constitution, Bush Administration, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Alberto Gonzales, Al Jazeera, Twin Towers, 9/11 Victims, Islamist Extremism, 9/11 Widow, Politics News

Now more than ever, Americans need to trust our own judicial system to fully and openly prosecute the mass murderers of 9/11 while the rest of the world bears witness.

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Why Roland Burris Matters to Barack Obama, Right Now

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Health Care Reform, New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Stupak Amendment, Abortion, Senate, Constitution, Public Option, Abortion Rights, Harry Reid, Chicago News

Roland could write an epitaph on that vaunted tombstone of his that actually matters. And, Roland, take note: By doing this, you will have saved the lives of millions of American women.

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"Justice Can't Wait:" Judicial Selection in the First 10 Months of the Obama Administration

Nan Aron | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Filibuster, Senate, Judicial Nominees, Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Obstructionism, Judges, President Obama, Politics News

Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration.

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Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated

Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tortured Law, Department of Justice, Constitution, Eric Holder Attorney General, Attorney General, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.

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What is the "Message" Behind Increased Gun Sales?

Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Second Amendment, Insurrectionism, Insurrection, William Kostric, Gun Control, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Town Hall Meetings, Guns, Politics News

Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, thinks Americans are stockpiling handguns, assault weapons and ammunition because they are going to be "attacked by politicians"?

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Genderless Marriage: Redefining the Debate

Kevin Armento | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Constitution, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Re-branding marriage as a genderless institution such not only widens its scope, but does so in a way that puts it more squarely in line with the two biggest rights struggles of the twentieth century.

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Nicaragua: Déjà Coup All Over Again?

Javier Corrales | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: United States, Constitution, Democracy Promotion, Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, Coup in Honduras, World News

This week, the United States helped bring an end to a serious political crisis in Honduras. A similar crisis is now brewing in Nicaragua, but this time, the United States won't be as lucky.

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Scalia Misquoted On Brown v. Board Of Education (CORRECTED)

Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Activist Judges, Justice Scalia, Brown v. Board of Education, Constitution, Antonin Scalia, Politics News

CORRECTION: An item posted here -- reporting that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissen...

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Cheney: A Tortured Soul

Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Libby, Cheney, Valerie Plame, Warrantless Wiretapping, Bush Administration, National Security, Spiro Agnew, Wiretap, Guantanamo, Constitution, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.

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Goodbye/Hello 14 "Burning The Ships "

Patt Cottingham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizens, Buring Ships, Constitution, Dysfunction, Lobbyists, Hernando Cortez, Courage, Washington, Reform, Democrats, No Retreat, Committment, Republican, Politics News

In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez anchored his 11 ships off the Yucatan Peninsula. Thousands of miles of ocean separated him from Spa...

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Marriage Rights Should Not Be Determined By Popular Opinion

Fred Silberberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Crow, Tyranny-of-the-Majority, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection, Discrimination, Full-Faith-and-Credit-Clause, Minority, Constitution, Separation of Church and State, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Activist Judges, Inside DC, Politics News

Allowing marriage to become the subject of a popular opinion poll, as has taken place in this country, disturbs the very principles upon which this nation was founded.

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Shake the System

Gavin Newsom | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, California, Gavin Newsom, 2010 Elections, Economy, Constitutional Conv, San Francisco, Jobs, Constitutional Convention, Constitution, Politics News

If we're going to put California back on the leading edge, we have to fix our broken system. Please join me in supporting a California Constitutional Convention and help participate in shaping it.

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"Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Freedom, Self-Help, Peter Breggin, Values, Psychology, America, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Responsibility, Living News

We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"

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Happy Thanksgiving(?)

Paula Gordon | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Enlightenment Nation, Constitution, Enlightenment, Thanksgiving, Canada, Sovereignty, Self-Government, God, World News

This and every second Monday of October, an entire First World nation takes the day off to cherish all that is best. Today is Thanksgiving Day. In Canada.

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Why Aren't Schools Teaching Our Children Their Rights and Freedoms?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Changing-the-Length-of-the-School-Year, Constitution, Longer-School-Year, Civic Education, Inside DC, Home News

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."-- Thomas Jefferson According to President Barack Obama, makin...

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"...And Our Posterity"

Gary Hart | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Us Constitution, Constitution, Politics News

The idea that future generations have a stake in carrying out the Constitution's objectives is profound. When we go to war, when we act on climate change, we do so not only for ourselves but also for our posterity.

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The Gun Issue Is Back in the Supreme Court: What Does It Mean?

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Distrt of Columbia, Second Amendment, National Rifle Association, District of Columbia v. Heller, Chicago, Gun Control, Constitution, Nra, Heller Decision, Guns, Politics News

Although the Chicago handgun ban Supreme Court case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board.

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This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"

James Warren | Posted 11.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribunals, Gary Willis, Detainees, Constitution, Executive Power, Nuclear Weapons, Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Leon Panetta, Congress, Obama, Entangled Giant, CIA New York Review of Books, Eric Holder, Bush, Media News

No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.

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Friday Talking Points [95] -- A Call To Action

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressives, Al Franken, Chief of Staff, Reform, Alan Grayson, Paul Kirk, Aid of the Party, Emanuel, Midotw, Glenn Greenwald, Nancy Pelosi, Department of Justice, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Peter Paul and Mary, Reid, Public Option, Democrat, House Progressives, Congress, Mary Travers, Democrats, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Acorn, Progressive, Constitution, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Party, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Republicans, Senate, Healthcare, President Obama, David Kris, Sherrod Brown, Obama, Democratic, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Fourth Amendment, Republican, Paul Wellstone, Pelosi, Defense Contractor, Co-Op, Baucus, Typewriter, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Rahm, Representative Grayson, Trigger, Time for All Good Men, House, Franken, Rahmbo, Surreal, Fraud, Chris Weigant, Max Baucus, Kris, Politics News

The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.

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The President in Chains

Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, National Security, Gary Hart, Matters of Principle, Military, Central Intelligence Agency, Constitution, Gary Wills, Department of Defense, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Air Force, National Security Council, Politics News

The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.

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