Background: Mary Winkler--who shot her husband in the back and then refused to aid him or call 911 as he slowly bled to death for 20 minutes--walked away a free woman last month after serving a farcically brief "sentence" for her crimes. She is currently in a custody battle with Matthew Winkler's parents, who...
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Are Federal courts again going to override states’ Constitutional rights? A New York Times editorial dated November 10 argues that the task of moving stem cell research to the next level cannot be left to the states…As this page has argued before, stem cell research is of such importance and promise for the entire...
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Background: Veterans' Day 2007 was the 89th anniversary of the end of one of the greatest tragedies in human history--World War I. My grandfather volunteered for the War, and was wounded in the decisive Battle of the Argonne Forest in 1918. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre. My...
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Background: The National Organization for Women/NOW Foundation has launched a new campaign around ads which they label "Offensive to Women." The campaign involved Love Your Body Day 2007, which was October 18. In this eight-part series, I'm reprinting some of the ads which NOW tells us are "Offensive to Women," giving my own humble...
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When we attained our Independence in 1980, we did so in style. Changing the guard democratically, creating new democratic structures for the State and local government and at the same time we preserved a well developed system of law supported by an independent Judiciary of surprising quality and experience. These achievements after a long...
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In November 2005, the Department of Homeland Security established the Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a multiyear, multibillion dollar program to secure U.S. borders. One element of SBI is SBInet — the U.S. Customs and Border Protection program responsible for developing a comprehensive border protection system through a mix of security infrastructure (e.g., fencing), and...
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Bibles and Torahs aside, if there is a secular reason why women’s rights does not include entitlement to function as Catholic Priests, Rabbi Susan Talve of St. Louis’s Central Reform Congregation is a cameo example. Rabbi Talve recently commenced interfaith nuclear war in St. Louis by anointing her synagogue with the authority to serve...
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Veterans' Day 2007 was the 89th anniversary of the end of one of the greatest tragedies in human history--World War I. My grandfather volunteered for the War, and was wounded in the decisive Battle of the Argonne Forest in 1918. He was awarded the Purple Heart and the French Croix de Guerre.
A couple years...
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