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How Would You Decide? -- Keeping Me Honest

Jim Lichtman | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Tenzin N. Taklha, The Dalai Lama, Michele Kane, Ethics, The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Justice, Terry Thornton, James Whitehouse, Compassion, Living News

I do not want to create the false impression that compassion was the sole criteria parole commissioners faced during former Manson Family member Susan Atkins' 2009 hearing.

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MacArthur Genius Award-Winners: Foundation Awards Grants

AP | By DON BABWIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Social Justice, Sciences Health, Arts, Science, MacArthur Genius Award, Justice, Journalism, MacArthur Grants, Home News

CHICAGO (AP)-- A newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders and a law professor trying to get people to forget the way they think ab...

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What!? Racism Still in America?

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, President Obama, Voting, Racial Equality, Head of State, Racial, Black, White America, Civil Rights, Republican, African-American, Citizens, Conservative, Martyr, Inauguration, Justice, Health Care, Equality, Lying, Conservative Friends, Politics, Racist, Congress, Health, United States, First Black President, President of the United States, Minority Race, Race, Racism, Apologies, White, Disagreements, Party, Ethnicity, Rhetoric, Politics News

I see racial sub-texts in the intensity of the attacks on Obama -- not in the disagreements per se, but in the viciousness of the rhetoric.

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A New Number for a New Era: From 9/11 to 350

Billy Parish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Fear, Solar, 350.Org, Bush, Hope, Terrorism, Wind, Green, 9/11, Vanjones, Clean Energy, Iraqwar, Glenn, 350, Beck, Glennbeck, Afghanistan, Jones, Justice, Iraq, Color of Change, Van, Green News

Until we change our lifestyle, the Earth will remain in the danger zone. There is still time to bring carbon dioxide levels back down, but it's going to take a major transformation in how we think and act.

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Obama's Health Care Speech: Hope Over Fear

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, System, Social Justice, Debate, Economic Crisis, Abortions, Politics, Kennedy, Social Transformation, Moral Principle, Community, Democrat, Reform, Congress, Democrats, Ted Kennedy, America, Republican, Moral Issues, Abortion, Hope, Members of Congress, Faith Community, Change, Health Insurance, Republicans, Justice, Health Care, Policy Arguments, Politics News

In his speech last evening, Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for -- reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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How Would You Decide? -- Part II

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Living News, What Do You Stand For?, The Golden Rule, Peter Westbrook, Sharon Tate, Ethics, Charles Manson, Immanuel Kant, Justice, Compassion, Michael Josephson, Living News

I asked readers to imagine sitting on the California parole board to decide whether to grant convicted murderer Susan Atkins "compassionate release" based on her terminally ill condition.

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How Would You Decide?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Susan Atkins, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Ethics, Charles Manson, Forgiveness, Justice, Compassion, California, Manson Family, Sharon Tate, Parole Board, Living News

Isn't it up to God to forgive the truly horrible, like members of the Manson Family? Should we forgive all mass-murderers? Must we go that far?

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What Is Justice for Lockerbie?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Gordon Brown, Libya, Jon Corzine, Qaddafi, Scotland, Hillary Clinton, World News, Politics News

As bystanders to tragedies like the Lockerbie disaster, you and I have no moral weight; we are outsiders. But we aren't outsiders in our own lives, where we face moral choices just as tangled.

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Doubt and the Death Penalty

Cyrus Vance | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conviction Integrity Unit, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Cameron Todd Willingham, Manhattan District Attorney, Criminal Court, Willingham, Wrongful Conviction, Death Penalty, Repeat Offenders, Arson, Justice, Politics News

Victims of crime deserve justice. Those who commit crimes must be held accountable for their actions. But just as we prosecute, we also must safeguard the rights of the innocent.

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If a Tree Falls in the Forest, is it Alright to Torture?

Gwen Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Cheney, Torture, Politics News

This latest revelation of the horrors endorsed and probably conceived by that administration is insupportable, once digested.

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How Leonard Peltier Could Leave Prison by August 18

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Leonard-Peltier, Federal Parole Commission, Justice, Prison System, Fbi, Politics News

For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.

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When Liberals and Conservatives Are Two Sides of the Same Oppressive Coin

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Liberals, Attention-Deficity-Hyperactivity-Disorder, Native Americans, Justice, Bigotry, Bruce E. Levine, Politics News

Conservative-liberal American society is sure of itself. It is sure of which cultures are backwards and which personalities need to be modified.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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After Obama Visit, Russia Resets to Default

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Natalia Estemirova, Freedom of the Press, Human Rights, Crime, Robert Amsterdam, Violence, Russia, Vladimir Putin, United States, Justice, Europe, Barack Obama, Journalism, Dmitry Medvedev, Anna Politkovskaya, Rule of Law, Paul Klebnikov, World News

What can be said about a kleptocratic country with no rule of law, where women are shot dead, young promising lawyers slain and the rest cowed into submission by fear?

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Umpires, Perspective, and the Supreme Court

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

The claim that any human is able to remain unaffected by their background or have a purely objective view of any case is to claim a quality that belongs only to God: omniscience.

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The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Court, Baseball, JusticeBot 9000, Empathy, Racist, Judge Sotomayor, States Rights, Scotus, Racial, Confirmation Hearings, Republican, Robot, Judge, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Farce, Satire, Balls and Strikes, Sonia Sotomayor, Some Splainin to Do, Spoof, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Umpire, Justice, Republican Party, Justicebot, Politics News

The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

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Blocked Whistleblower Protections Put Obama Transparency Promises at Risk

Rob Kall | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Whistleblowers, Justice, Barack Obama, Government Accountability, Unions, Politics News

For the last 30 years, whistleblower protection laws have been a sham, and whistleblowers need the opportunity to appear before a jury.

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Sessions Uses Sotomayor as a Pawn in His Lifelong Crusade Against Civil Rights

Ian Millhiser | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor Racism, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News

Given Sessions' history of baseless assaults on civil rights, one has to wonder whether conservatives chose him as their leading voice on Sotomayor because they fundamentally agree with his lifelong stance on race.

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Sheriff Baca: Don't Let Rape Victims Down

Sarah Tofte | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sheriff, Rape, Justice, Crime, Los Angeles, Lapd, Los Angeles-California, Women's Rights, Sexual Violence, Violence Against Women, Rape Kit, Rape Kits, Women's Health, Economic Crisis, Politics News

Two weeks ago, the L.A County Sheriff's Department announced that in May, it stopped testing rape kits indefinitely because of a lack of funds. The backlog: 12,500 untested cases.

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Victory at Smithfields: An Independence Day Symbol

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Justice, Ufcw, Unions, Smithfield-Foods, Working Life, Employee Free Choice Act, Independence Day, Fourth of July, Business News

When I think about what these workers went through -- the struggle, the fight, the commitment that held them together over so many dark days -- this is the America that inspires me.

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Lazarus and the Iranians

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Global, Wealthy, President Obama, Lazarus and the Rich Man, Jesus, Grassroots, Justice of God, Poor, Injustice, Luke, Government, Streets, Image of God, Iran, Muslim, Wealth, Muslim World, Protest, Muslims, Story of Lazarus, Justice, Poverty, Iranians, Lazarus, Politics News

A connection has been made. A connection clearly seen between a young generation here in the United States and a young generation of Iranians who have taken to the streets.

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After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice

Thom Hartmann | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Cuba, President Obama, Cia, Obama Administration, Justice, Abraham Bolden, Civil Rights, Politics News

A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about the Civil Rights pioneer Abraham Bolden who worked with President John F. Kennedy.

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Justice for the Privileged

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Justice, Empathy, Guantanamo Detainees, Republicans, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Gop, Republican Party, Politics News

The Republicans are aghast that Obama would impose an "empathy standard" on his nominee for the Supreme Court, as though this word could be removed from anything that is human.

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Think Again: Sotomayor and SCOTUS: Captured on a Carousel of Time

Eric Alterman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Pat Buchanan, National Review, Rush Limbaugh, National Security, Ricci, Sonia Sotomayor, Michael Steele, Maher Arar, Discrimination, Race, Gant, Justice, Barack Obama, Extraordinary Rendition, Media News

The debate over Sotomayor's "priorities" has shed next to no light on the nominee views or decisions, but has proven awfully revealing about the state of conservatives' collective neuroses.

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