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Tag: States’ rights

Blueprint for a federal takeover of national elections

December 3, 2012 Madonna Gauding 2012 Election, Democrats, Good government, States 2 comments

Some Democrats in the last election had a hard time voting. Republicans, like Secretary of State John Husted of Ohio, worked overtime, using a

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FEMA: another example of why states’-righters are wrong

November 5, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Good government, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Politics, Public safety, Republicans, Romney, Science, States Leave a comment

The current conflict regarding FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is essentially about whether the federal government should have primary responsibility for addressing disasters, or

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Obama had to debate with one hand tied behind his back

October 11, 2012 Arthur Lieber 2012 Election, Economy, Health care, Infrastructure, Obama, Politics, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama of favoring a policy of “trickle-down government.”  Indeed it was a zinger for Romney. It handcuffed Obama, although this

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I support vouchers, except in 50 states

August 20, 2012 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Education, History, Human Rights, Religion in Politics, States Leave a comment

Back in the 1970s, when the presumed (though not necessarily true) reflections of the 1960s still shined a bit, I was involved in the

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Stupid legislative tricks: Missouri edition

May 21, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Courts, Government, Health care, Humor, Missouri region, Politics, Religion in Politics, Reproductive rights, States One comment

The silly—and nasty—season in Jefferson City, Missouri came to a merciful end last night [May 18, 2012], with the customary cheers and sophomoric tossing-in-the-air

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A governor says: “State solutions need an active federal government.”

March 6, 2012 Arthur Lieber Business, Campaigns, Civil Rights, Economy, Employment, Good government, States Leave a comment

There was a time when the term “states’ rights” was simply code for racial discrimination. In the early 1960s, Governors Ross Barnett of Mississippi

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How states’ rights affected the assassination of JFK

December 9, 2011 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, Government, History, Violence Leave a comment

I thought that I had gotten over it; the connection between the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and where it happened – Dallas,

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Are states labs for experimentation–or chaos?

October 31, 2011 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Republicans love to bash the federal government and assert that social and economic policy out to be developed by and implemented by the 50

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A states’-rights assault on healthcare reform

February 4, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Government, Health care, States One comment

Just as healthcare consumers are beginning to see and like the benefits of the healthcare reform act, Republicans have launched yet another attack designed

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A new book by Arthur Lieber. Political Introverts: How Empathetic Voters Can Help Save American Politics.  Buy it here.

Gloria Shur Bilchik’s new book, Election Insiders: Behind the scenes with the people who make your vote count. Kindle edition now available at Amazon.

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