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Category: Legal issues/Law

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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What about the freedoms not related to guns?

August 2, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Democracy, Guns, Human Rights, Legal issues/Law One comment

If you watch enough news, if you listen to enough talk-radio, if you even read mainstream press, you might think that the only part

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The First Church of Cannabis, and other unintended consequences

July 1, 2015 Glenn Koenen Food, Legal issues/Law, Missouri region, Poverty, Religion in Politics, States Leave a comment

Indianapolis hosted the 100th Anniversary Convention for Kiwanis International these past few days. As is the norm, I represented my Valley Park [Missouri] club.

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Addictions: Coffee, cocaine, and U.S. policy in Colombia

June 9, 2015 Christopher Burke Foreign Policy, International, Legal issues/Law One comment

We are in love with our morning coffee. What could be more American? Coffee more than pie? Just possibly! What if our morning caffeine

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Department of Education promotes racketeering and Jim Crow in schools

April 13, 2015 Arthur Lieber Children, Education, Ethics, Federalism, Legal issues/Law One comment

There is so much that the federal government could do in education. Besides taking the obvious first step of reducing student loan rates to

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This church – state thing gets curiouser and curiouser

April 3, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Human Rights, Legal issues/Law, LGBT, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

Republican legislators and Governor Mike Pence in Indiana have presented us with the latest incarnation of church – state relations in the United States.

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On Fox, Ferguson is a media sport and a blood sport

March 11, 2015 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Courts, Crime/Violence, Ferguson, Guns, Legal issues/Law, Media, Violence Leave a comment

They had to do it; they just had to do it. They had to gloat about the findings of the Justice Department’s Report on

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Red-light camera refund

January 13, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Cities, Corporations, Legal issues/Law, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Sometime between 2005 and 2014, I got nailed by a red-light camera. I don’t remember the date or the time, but I do remember

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Rooting for the grand juror in his lawsuit vs. Bob McCulloch

January 6, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Ethics, Ferguson, Legal issues/Law, Missouri region Leave a comment

A member of the Darren Wilson grand jury is suing St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, claiming that McCulloch publicly mis-characterized the grand

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Men get raped, too, but no one talks about it

December 1, 2014 Mary Di Valerio Crime/Violence, Gender issues, Legal issues/Law 2 comments

I recently administered a survey to a group of students at Truman University on the topic of sexual assault. The results showed that most

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