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Alter Net
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The first Amendment right of free speech and the Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination are well known, but the Ninth Amendment is ignored. Pity, because it bears directly on abortion, the right to die, and gay rights.
The enumeration in..
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Alter Net
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The radical Christian Right is coming dangerously close to its goal of taking over the country’s military and law enforcement...
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Alter Net
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Jon Soltz: My challenge to you, Rush, is to have me on your show so you can say all of this again, right to the face of someone who served in Iraq.
As Media Matters reported today, Rush Limbaugh, on his show said that those troops who come home and wan..
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USA Today
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He was the founding father of the religious right.
When Jerry Falwell created the Moral Majority a quarter-century ago, many Christian fundamentalists eschewed the world of politics. But the Southern Baptist minister from Lynchburg, Va., launched a pol..
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Alter Net
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A look at the Christian Right's legal muscle leading the fight to end the separation of church and state.
On a dismal, rainy afternoon, over tea and Pepsi and a plate of fries at the Bob Evans restaurant in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, Bill Scaggs, a retired..
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Herald Tribune
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John Coffin won't spend any more time in jail for beating up two sheriff's deputies inside his house, striking one in the head with a Taser gun he took from the other.
Circuit Judge Rick De Furia said at Coffin's trial Tuesday that he doesn't condone t..
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Yahoo News
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Anyone who's read Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" or seen the movie based on it knows about the mental and emotional stresses astronauts face as they train for space travel. But those trying to explain the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak say the pressu..
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