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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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Comey firing is worse than Watergate

May 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik History, Justice, Trump One comment

Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is worse than Nixon’s 1973 Saturday Night Massacre. Sure, just as Trump is doing now, Nixon acted out his

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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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Comey

Theory: Comey’s Pre-Election Letter Was Well Intentioned

March 25, 2017 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, Corruption, Democracy, FBI/NSA/CIA, Hillary Clinton, Justice, Legal issues/Law, Politics, Trump, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Rep. Chris Stewart, a Republican from Utah made this statement on Monday at the House Intelligence Committee, “Every media organization, every political organization, every

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Smoking gun

Arrests: What’s missing from Trumpgate

March 21, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Corruption, Justice, Trump, Uncategorized 2 comments

It unfolded so differently. The first that we heard about it was the announcement of the arrests, not rumors. Watergate began with the weird

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A Bill of Rights for refugees and host countries

February 26, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Immigration, International, Justice One comment

Fifty St. Louis-area high school students dived into the international refugee crisis yesterday and created something that, apparently, no one has previously considered: a

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Inflating the jobs of Supreme Court justices

February 7, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Community/Common good, Courts, Democracy, Federalism, Government, Justice, Supreme Court [SCOTUS] Leave a comment

Suppose that you were judging a bake-off among contestants who didn’t know the difference between sugar and salt. Suppose that you were a judge

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Would Trump nominees support the 25th Amendment?

January 30, 2017 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Ethics, Justice, Republican Brain, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

Some Republicans are seeing the light about Donald Trump in the White House. While he may have led a Republican tsunami in 2016, his

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With Trump, is there a line between business and government?

December 13, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Environment, Good government, Government, Justice, Labor and unions, Taxes Leave a comment

The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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