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Teaching students their rights can be dangerous to your career
If a survey is asking students to effectively identify themselves by name and if they have engaged in illegal behavior, is it a bad thing if a teacher advises them of their Fifth Amendment right to not...
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Paul LePage is a Dolt (Censorship! Freedom! Guns! Edition)
Dear Governor-of-Maine LePage, Parliamentary gameplaying is not censorship. It's frustrating (when on the receiving end), and perhaps even rude (or perhaps not), but it's not censorship. And a state...
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The Persecution of Christian Americans (or … not)
As a Christian-American myself, let me say: 1. Welcome to the club. Non-Christian Americans have been (and still are) railed against, insulted, mocked, threatened, suspected, denigrated, looked askance...
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You have the right to remain silent (use it)
I actually probably agree with the ruling in this case. Person was being questioned by the police (but was not under arrest, and thus not subject to the Miranda ruling). He was chit-chatting freely,...
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The US Civil War was the worst war ever
… except for all the others that have been fought. Was the Civil War necessary? Could it have been avoided? Was it a great failure, or "just" a great tragedy? Did its blood-soaked horror, and the...
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These aren't the droids you’re caring for
On the horrifying tales and subjugation of sentient, feeling robots in the Star Wars universe. "We seem to made to suffer. It's our lot in life." Not quite so funny as it once seemed. Inequality in...
View ArticleRT @pourmecoffee: On this day …
RT @pourmecoffee: On this day in 2003 SCOTUS struck down state bans on gay sex, and you know what happened?!?! Nothing. Gay people who want…
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Huzzah! RT @BoingBoing: Supreme Court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act in 5-4 vote http://t.co/dC8C5Hm8bI
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MT @Popehat: Called wife, asked, since marriage meaningless now, can I nail an aerobics instructor? She says no…doesn’t get constitution.
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RT @scalzi: Congratulations to my married friends whose marriages now count to the IRS.
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RT @dresdencodak: Dissenting Justice Scalia: “We’re doomed! If a poorly remembered idealization of history doesn’t dictate civil rights, wh…
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RT @DavidCornDC: Ten years ago today, Scalia wrote an angry dissent saying if sodomy laws were rejected it would lead to…gay marriage! We…
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SCOTUS and DoMA and Prop 8 (Oh, My!)
I have a lot to say about this (beyond the lengthy rewtweeting), and will say it anon … but for the moment, let me just say that I am overall pleased with both rulings, and gobsmacked / wildly amused...
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Dolts, DOMA, and DOOOOOM!
Alert! Alert! The Gay Wedded Couples Are Coming! It was the day America died. Or marriage. Or marriage in America. Or Americans’ marriages. Or something. See also, The End of Christendom and Jesus...
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God's Law trumps the First Amendment
This is really a shocking story — not that it happened so much as that the person who did it was so open about it. Pennsylvania's first openly gay legislator, Brian Sims, stood up to speak about the...
View ArticleThe Pledge of Allegiance and the “Persistent Appetite for Orthodoxy”
The Pledge of Allegiance and the "Persistent Appetite for Orthodox" Tribalism is a hard habit to break, or even tame. Tribes demand common clothing, common rituals, common oaths, common symbols. And...
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New York City raises the cigarette sale age
NYC will raise the age at which people can buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. The only good thing about this is that it brings the age in line with the age of drinking. But, c'mon, folks — if someone can...
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The US Catholic Bishops and ENDA
ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act) is a proposed law that would make it illegal for nonreligious employers to discriminate in hiring and firing based on sexual orientation or gender...
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"We don't serve their kind here"
If the Civil Rights Act had a "any individual or business who feels, from a religious motivation, that they cannot serve people of a protected class — woman, blacks, Jews — then they are exempt from...
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Bryan Fischer Is a Dolt (ENDA Daze Edition)
Bryan Fischer, Dolt Oh, Bryan. It’s been way too long since I’d engaged in faux dialog with you on one of your zany screeds. What’ve you got for me today? The rush is on for Congress to pass the...
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