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  • Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..

    ... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008

  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007

  • Re: False Dichotomies

    And I contend that Ford's other point re the older of model of civil rights protests is obsolete for this case. Neither you nor Ford not anyone else can maintain whether or not the punishments were harsh or just enough. There are people who disagree not only with the Jena protests but also with the entire idea that structural racism exists. So ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Paula26 on September 26, 2007

  • Re: If you want intellectual neatness...

    I don't think the writer is construing some perfect vision of what a movement should be. It's just that this particular case is overburdened with questionable elements that make it difficult to, ahem, ''sloganize''. If it took 30 posters to stretch out the exact penalties that the situation warranted for both the white and black students, then ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Paula26 on September 26, 2007