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Letting Go of a Foster Baby, with Great Reluctance

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Foster Parents, Foster Care, Judges, Baby, Arlington-Virginia, Social-Workers, Justice, Guardian Ad Litem, Family Court, Living News

Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...

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World's Dumbest Talking Point on Gitmo Gets Traction

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

The minute Ted Kaczynski makes a run for it out of the Supermax in Colorado is the minute I'll agree that it's unsafe to bring the Gitmo detainees to the US.

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Love Your Neighbor, Love the Earth

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Vieques, Puerto Rican, Compensatory Damages, Toxic Metals, Compensation, Health, Government, Puerto Rican Island, US Navy, Bush Administration, Contaminants, Target Range, Justice Department, Protest, Justice, Sovereign Immunity, Advocacy, Green Living, Green News

We cannot claim to care for the poor while we turn our backs on our role in the destruction of the most basic resources our neighbors need for survival.

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Justice Delayed

Nan Aron | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Department of Justice, Justice, Scotus, Barack Obama, Dawn Johnsen, President Obama, Politics News

Here's another reason for the filibuster threat against Dawn Johnsen: it seems that some Republican senators have an allergic reaction to women in positions of responsibility.

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A New President and a New Generation Seek a Nuclear Weapons Free Future

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: International, Bomb, Washington, William J Perry, Democrat, Evangelicals, Wall Street Journal, Evangelical, Weapons, Peace, Democrats, Movement, America, Barack Obama, Republican, Conservative, Sam Nunn, Non Proliferation Treaty, Bush Administration, Henry a Kissinger, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Barack, George Shultz, Liberal, Russia, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Testing, Republicans, Conservatives, Justice, Young Evangelicals, Politics News

A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."

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White House: No Supreme Court Nominee Next Week

AP | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Souter, President Obama, White House, Scotus, Obama, Supreme Court Nominee, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Justice, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama's announcement of a Supreme Court nominee is not imminent. Presidential spokesman Robe...

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DNA Records Of Thousands Of Innocent Brits To Be Kept

Independent | Robert Verkaik, Home Affairs Editor | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Dna, Britain, Jacqui Smith, Crime, Britain Dna Records, England, Britain Dna, England Dna, Uk Dna, Justice, World News

The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is accused today of undermining the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" by insisting on keeping DNA records of...

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Ends vs. Means: A Gross Misunderstanding of Our Nation's History

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Ends Versus Means, Torture, Bush, Cheney, George W. Bush, CIA Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Cheney and friends invoke national security as some blanket amnesty for any past or future ethical or legal violations. Our Founding Fathers would find that offensive.

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Torture Memos -- Next Step

James Zogby | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Human Rights, Justice, Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Politics News

Despite some domestic criticism, the president was correct in releasing the largely un-redacted Bush era "torture memos."

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In Search of a Model Muslim State

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 05.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Democracy, Turkey, Uae, Dubai, Justice, President Obama, Saudi Arabia, Labor, Muslim State, President Bush, Muslim World, Muslim, United Arab Emirates, Dubai-United Arab Emirates, Home News

A "model Muslim state" at the bare minimum must embody Islam's normative ethics.

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Putting "Justice" Back Into D.O.J.

David O. Stewart | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Why shouldn't the people also have their own lawyer?

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Obama: (Reefer) Madness to Tackle Legalization?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Romney, Drug War, Justice, Marijuana, Economy, Palin, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

Should Obama have tackled the marijuana issue during his recent online town hall meeting, or was he wise to shrug it off?

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One System, Two Realities

James E. Coleman Jr. | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Ted Stevens Corruption, The Duke Innocence Project, Ted Stevens Indicted, Duke Lacrosse Players, Eric Holder, Ted Stevens, Justice, American Criminal Justice System, Politics News

Many of the people who will praise Mr. Holder for dropping the charges against Mr. Stevens won't care that the same kind of misconduct routinely taints the trials of those who are not "connected."

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"Once Again" in Darfur

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

"Never again" has turned into "once again," and history repeats itself with genocide in Darfur.

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A Fairness Issue

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but bands of robbers?" - St Augustine. I was surprised when Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) opened up his remarks before ...

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Teacher Accountability and Autonomy

Robert Rose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Responsibility, Autonomy, Freedom, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Quality, Education, Teachers, Teaching, Politics News

Accountability is only fair and possible when teachers have the freedom, the autonomy, to use all the tools at their disposal in the manner the best serves them and their students

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For Wealthy Tax Cheats, The Moment of Reckoning is Coming

Laurence Leamer | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Inveswtment Banks, Super Rich Tax Cheats, Attorney General Holder, Cheats, Madoff, Switzerland, Swiss Banks, Banks, Justice, Eric Holder, Business News

In the Bush years, the IRS became so lax in its enforcement that cheating became routine and hidden Swiss bank accounts almost as much a status symbol as private jets.

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Our Moral Audit of the Budget

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, White House, President, Social Justice, Debate, President Obama, Taxes, Washington, Proportion, Priorities, Poor, Wealth, Common Good, Social Responsibility, E.J. Dionne, Budgets, Justice, Capitalism, Faith, Health Care, Equality, Irs, Budget, Politics, Biblical, Community, Rich, Compassion, Federal Budget Proposal, Invisible Hand, Inequality, Economy, 100 Days, Obama Budget, Politics News

My prediction is that many in the faith community, especially those on the front lines of serving the poor, will rally around the principles and priorities of this budget.

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Living News

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Industry, Native Americans, Leonard Peltier, Obama, Justice, Prison Inmates, Imprisonment, Crime, Prisoners, Fbi, Amnesty International, Criminal Justice, Unfair Sentencing, Criminal Justice System, Political Prisoners, Jail, Prisons, 1970s, Politics News

Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.

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From King to Obama, the Arc of Justice

Sarah Newman | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Generations of Americans have heard the cries for change and it's been a long journey by many who have brought justice to the doors of our government on this momentous occasion.

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Don't Forget Your Mother, Barack

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 02.19.2009 | World

Read More: Bahasa Indonesia, President Obama, Urdu, Spanish, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Javanese, Collateral Damage, Peace, Obama Kenya, Barack Obama, Mothers, Unity, Russian, Obama "Dreams of My Father", Indonesia, Obama Presidency, Africa, Dreams From My Father, Obama Dreams of My Father, Stanley Ann Dunham, Justice, Multiculturalism, International, Obama's Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, World News

A native Kansan who learned several languages, including Russian, Urdu, Spanish, Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia, Barack Obama's mother existed outside of the box of traditionalism.

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Pro-Lifers Critical Of Obama's Justice Picks

Washington Times | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Pro-Life, Obama Abortion, Pro-Lifer, Obama, Obama Pro-Life, Barack Obama, Politics News

Social conservatives and pro-life activists are mobilizing against President-elect Barack Obama's pick Monday for the No. 3 Justice Department job, a ...

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