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King's Easter epistle on civil disobedience
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 (which fell on April 12 that year), King led a march from...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Religious Festivals, Martin Luther King Jr., Prisons, Easter
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States' rights bills surge in GOP states
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — One bill would make it a felony to enforce the new federal health care law, punishable by up to five years in prison. Another prohibits a physician from asking a patient about firearms. Yet another is designed to curb the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Punishment, Healthcare Laws, Parties and Movements, Politics
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Lifting a burden from special ed parents
The welcome lifting of the federal consent decree on Baltimore City Public Schools does not mean all is well for students with disabilities in Baltimore and Maryland — far from it. Yet, the General Assembly rarely pays any attention to the fact that...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Conservation, Lawyers, Students, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Senate, Saudi Arabia, Alzheimer's Disease, Ronald Reagan
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Here's one prediction you can take to the bank: In 2016, Focus on the Family will still be spewing paranoid nonsense
Change of SubjectIn advance of the 2008 election, Focus on the Family released "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," warning their followers what life would be like in the fall of 2012 were Barack Obama to be elected. It's both frightening and...... -
Scalia defends comparing laws against homosexuality to murder
Confronted by a gay student at Princeton University, Justice Antonin Scalia defended his past writings comparing laws against homosexuality to those prohibiting bestiality and murder, saying he was arguing that many laws are based on society’s moral...
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Md. won't try to collect unpaid taxes on Cyber Monday sales
Capital News ServiceAs Marylanders join millions of others nationwide in the computer shopping blitz that’s become known as Cyber Monday, they might want to think about this: If they paid the sales tax they owe to the state for such purchases, Maryland would be $200...Tags: E-Commerce Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Benjamin L. Cardin, Consumers, Taxation
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Vote no on gerrymandering
Whenever proponents of Maryland's new congressional districts make their pitch, there is something missing: the map itself. The gerrymandered map of Maryland's congressional districts produced by Gov. Martin O'Malley and a majority of the General Assembly...
Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland), Baltimore County, Republican Party, Voting
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It's not easy being A.G.
Next time the president asks you to be attorney general of the United States, it might be best to politely refuse the offer. My reasoning: Modern day attorneys general are regularly torched by the Congressional opposition, particularly when that...
Tags: Lawyers, Personal Data Collection, Immigration, Republican Party, Voting
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Et Tu, John Roberts?
Another supposed conservative Supreme Court justice has turned to the left. Chief Justice John Roberts has joined the ignominious list of Republican Supreme Court appointments who betrayed the conservative movement. The Supreme Court Justice Hall of Shame...
Tags: Paul C. Broun, Justice System, Health Insurance Cost, Politics, Laws
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By George, ‘Leighton Courthouse’ shows how to play the naming game
Change of SubjectGeorge N. Leighton, 6/29/2012. Tribune photo by Terence Antonio James In a startling break with tradition, Cook County has just named its central courthouse after former Judge George N. Leighton. The tradition I’m referring to isn’t the long-... -
Obama to honor Medal of Freedom recipients
WASHINGTON (AP)— President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will honor a diverse cross-section of political and cultural icons — including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn, basketball coach Pat...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, DC, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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