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Why Americans Shouldn't Fear Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

12.20.2010

Sean Brown of The Anarchist Project guest blogs on why Americans shouldn’t fear Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Transparency is good.

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The Republican Party Still Has No Interest in Actual Governance

10.26.2010

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell tells us what we already knew: the GOP has no interest in actual governance even with the prospect of winning the Senate in next week’s general election.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Stay

10.20.2010

Obama Administration seeks stay in the overturning of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. The District Court judge stands her ground.

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How to Start Blogging: Read Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish

10.12.2010

Andrew Sullivan celebrates 10 years of political blogging. Along with John August, he’s one of the prime reasons why I’m even blogging today.

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Why Restricting Westboro Baptist Church's Protests Wouldn't Harm Free Speech

10.06.2010

Westboro Baptist Church could be one of the more offensive groups in the country today.  These people protest fallen American troops’ funerals to promote their anti-homosexual message.  To most anyone outside their congregation, it’s beyond appalling. The lawsuit brought on by one of those deceased soldier’s families has caused the question of whether or not [...]

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Getting Fired for Medical Marijuana Use: Why Should Employers Drug Test At All?

09.15.2010

Employers fire employees for failing drug tests, despite having medical marijuana prescriptions from their doctors. Why do we even drug test workers in the first place?

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Do You Like Capitalism? Then, You Should Love Gay Marriage.

08.24.2010

Marriage is big business. Sure, it’s about love and being together forever and all that jazz, too. But, let’s be real: it’s a serious moneymaker. So, why not include gays?

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What Do Canada and Mexico Have that the United States Doesn't? Equality

08.13.2010

For being the self-proclaimed “land of the free,” the United States sure has gone out of its way to deny freedoms to a minority group of Americans with so many states pushing legislation to ban same sex marriages.

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The Senate Immigration Reform and My Case for Humanities and the Arts

04.30.2010

Apparently amid all of this Arizona immigration law controversy, Senate Democrats in Washington have actually released an immigration reform plan. It seems extraordinarily unlikely that this will go anywhere in 2010 since this is an election year and nothing is more polarizing than tackling immigration. (Except maybe health care reform.) You can download the REPAIR [...]

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Gay Marriage Rights are not about Religion

04.16.2009

New York may be the next state in line to allow same-sex marriage.  Gov. David Paterson (D-NY) introduced a bill to follow in the footsteps of Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa. Of course, he’s got himself a lot of opposition.  Not surprisingly, this opposition consists of the religious community, particularly from Sen. Ruben Diaz of [...]

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