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Category: Legal issues/Law

remote notary

Need a notary for your document, but quarantining? Do it online.

May 1, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, Coronavirus, Legal issues/Law Leave a comment

Many documents require a signature verification by a notary public. But if you’re social distancing, going to the bank or your lawyer’s office is

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Comey-Mattis

A Tale of Two Jameses

September 10, 2019 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Activism, Democracy, Ethics, Hillary Clinton, Impeachment, Legal issues/Law, Trump Leave a comment

John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning book (with much help from speechwriter Ted Sorensen) , Profiles in Courage, focused on eight white men (yes,

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PEN

PEN writers’ group sues Trump over abuse of First Amendment

October 21, 2018 Renee Shur Activism, Constitution, Legal issues/Law, Media, Trump Leave a comment

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

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hostage

The hostage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border

June 7, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Immigration, Legal issues/Law, Trump Leave a comment

The Trump administration is holding children hostage. They can call it “family separation.” They can say that it’s meant as a “deterrent” to illegal

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Gun laws

Gun laws: the irony, the agony, the insanity

March 7, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Children, Congress, Guns, Legal issues/Law Leave a comment

America’s gun laws are shot through with irony and illogic. Some would want you to believe that our national attitude regarding guns reflects a

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lexicon

A lexicon of sexual misconduct: There’s a word for what he did to you

November 21, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Legal issues/Law, Violence, Women Leave a comment

When a 94-year-old ex-president gropes your backside, is it sexual assault, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching or what? As women, at long last, feel confident

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Trump flunks US Army’s own leadership checklist

June 18, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Legal issues/Law, Military Leave a comment

How unfit for the presidency is Donald Trump? The term “unfit” has been bandied about quite a lot since January 2017, when Trump was

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Triad-01

Trump, it’s the triad again!

May 18, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Corruption, Government, Justice, Legal issues/Law, Media, Trump Leave a comment

Donald Trump has had trouble understanding the nuclear triad. He may now want to get a little more familiar with the triad that can

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Robert Spencer

Tension mounts with Islamophobic speaker scheduled at Truman State

April 10, 2017 Mary Di Valerio Activism, Civil liberties, Democracy, Ethics, Justice, Legal issues/Law, LGBT 8 comments

When I woke up this morning, I was outraged to discover that $3,050 in Truman State University funds (taken from the non-optional “student activity

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Neil Gorsuch

Approve Gorsuch – contingent on him answering the questions

March 28, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Civil liberties, Courts, Democracy, Good government, Justice, Legal issues/Law, Senate Leave a comment

We’ve all heard that it’s better to deal with the devil you know rather than the one you don’t. In the United States, we

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