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Marco Rubio: “The Constitution of the United States” Forces Women to Bring to Term Rape and Incest Conceived Fetuses
Marco Rubio thinks “The Constitution of the United States” necessarily forces women to bring to term fetuses conceived against their will by rape and incest. Wow. He really fucked himself here. Fox News Megyn Kelly Grills Marco Rubio On Rape, … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, America, Constitution, feminism, Marco Rubio, Republicans, women's equality
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“I Don’t Consent To Searches”: Calm Constitutional Pushback To The Security State
One step toward not being a sheep.
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Tagged America, Constitution, freedom, law, police, security
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Tea Terrorism: Joe Stack (1956-2010) Draws Tea Party Populism into a New Round of Violence and Celebrations of Violence
And as Jonathan Capehart reminds us, it’s not the first time that the so-called “Constitution patriots” have moved down this road: In the 1990s, there was lots of talk about the excesses of government power, a U.N.-run New World Order … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Constitution, glenn beck, joe stack, patriots, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, tea party movement, Thomas Jefferson
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The Bush-Cheney Years
Nostalgic? From the just declassified May 2004 inspector general’s review of CIA interrogations: Sometime between 28 December 2002 and 1 January 2003, the debriefer used an unloaded semi-automatic handgun as a prop to frighten Al-Nashiri into disclosing information. After discussing … Continue reading
CIA Eight Years: The Plot Thickens
Dick Cheney appears to be at the center of an eight year cover-up from the Congress of a secret CIA program. This today in the NY Times: The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years … Continue reading
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Sonia Sotomayor and “Activist Judges”: Whether You’re Reading the Bible or Reading the Constitution, It’s All About the Framing, Baby!
Can the framers of the Constitution, and the framers of our religious texts, be themselves framed? Berkeley linguist George Lakoff explains why a phrase like “activist judge” exploits a naive notion of what it means to interpret a text (like the American Constitution). And … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Bible, biblical interpretation, Constitution, george lakoff, Politics, rhetoric, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
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