""But the Constitution of the United States, as a restraining influence in keeping the federal government within the carefully prescribed channels of power, is moribund, if not dead. We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill becomes a law, if unhappily it...
Women's struggle for gender equality and justice continues on a global scale. Today's UN report shockingly indicates that the disparity between women and men's rights is all too common and prevalent.In 2008, it is...
Hillary Clinton's answers to the Boston Globe survey on presidential powers were carefully crafted and demonstrate a more considered view of the constitutional issues than the current President has. Her answers...
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Senator Obama uses less measured language and approaches the questions with more social and historical perspective than Senator Clinton, reflecting his relatively few years inside the Beltway. Their positions are quite similar, though his answers on the Bush...
While there may be no criminal charges arising from a group of adults who faked being a boy on myspace and culminated in the suicide of a 13 year old girl who was 'in love' with him, there's certainly no reason not...
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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Texas' love affair with guns got a shot in the arm last week when Governor Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 308, expanding the rights of blind game hunters to include the use of laser sighting...
"IN the 1980s, Mothers Against Drunk Driving led the campaign to toughen the penalties for driving under the influence.
This led to a societal change in attitude toward drinking and driving -- and it also helped reduce highway fatalities.
A legislative committee led by Sen....
"What would we say if an American institution, holding a seventh of all the land in the United States, adopted statutes that allowed it to sell or rent land only to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?
We would not believe it. And it is, indeed, impossible.
But that's the way...
This law protects four groups: National, Ethnical, Racial, Religious. The crime, is the intended destruction of the whole, or part, of a group. Genocide crimes include: Aiding, Attempting, Complicity, Conspiring, Inciting, Planning.
"A new report by a federal investigator, obtained in full by National Public Radio, has found that Kenneth Tomlinson repeatedly violated federal statutes in his role as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors."
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"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared...
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