Sealing in the Palestinians: The Story of the Most Controversial Border Wall in the World | World An excerpt from Rene Backman's book, “A Wall in Palestine,” which lays bare an international human rights controversy. March 13, 2010 | The following is an excerpt from A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backmann (Picador, 2010). Who invented the...
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Why Are We Afraid to Tax the Super-Rich? | Civil Liberties We are told that we’re already living well beyond our means we’ve got to cut back on government programs at all levels. Meanwhile, the super-rich are still having a ball. March 12, 2010 | Our nation is already deeply in debt. How can we possibly...
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Coffee Party? Tea Party? Join the Brewvement! Tea Partiers, make room. The Coffee Party is about to steal some of your media thunder. Around for only a few weeks, it officially launches March 13th, having already attracted 109,000 Facebook fans, slightly more than the Tea Party, around about a year. The Coffee Party expects about...
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Why the Left Should Ignore the Right As Barack Obama continues to reach out to the Republican party only to be rejected time after time, it may be a good moment to reconsider the whole notion of bipartisanship. If Obama and other Democrats simply stuck to their guns and clearly articulated a progressive agenda, they...
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A new article just posted to SSRN examines Best Practices in the field of land use law. The article, “Practically Grounded: Convergence of Land Use Pedagogy and Best Practices” is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education. (One can downloand at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540713). The authors (my colleague Dean Patricia Salkin from Albany Law School and...
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Book Burning Great Success! We wanted to say that the Book Burning was a great success. It was a success because God's Word was glorified and uplifted. God magnifies His Word above His name, and so do we. The video of the entire service will be up in a few days. We wanted to thank...
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As a Canadian, who works full time dealing with a major American insurance company, I'd take my wait to see a specialist any day over the circus American's call health care, because you're getting gouged on all ends. The insurance companies have all these foolish, and arbitrary, “pre-existing conditions,” and they're going to make...
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