Tag: justice
member name: Ann Weaver Hart
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October 19, 2009 07:02 PM EDT --
Larry Langford is in trouble with the law. The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has been accused of accepting bribes to steer business to friends when he was president of the Jefferson County Commission. . . .
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September 28, 2009 07:30 PM EDT --
A number of large, hardbound books can be found at most County Clerks’ offices bearing the title, Drunkards, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts . Notwithstanding the fact that most people could fit into . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Here in the United States of America we have free enterprise in every conceivable area, even when it is not appropriate. Medicine is one of those inappropriate areas.
Why is medicine an inappropriate . . .
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October 05, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
The perky lady with the video camera made her way around the tables at the high school reunion. She explained that she was making a YouTube video.
“What would you like to say to the kids in . . .
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December 29, 2008 06:53 PM EST --
Imagine waking up tomorrow and learning that the United Nations has decreed that everyone living west of the Mississippi River had to move to the east of it. No one except American Indians could . . .
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January 12, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
The honeymoon may already be over in Washington. Last week, Senator Arlen Specter voiced doubts that Eric Holder will make a good Attorney General. Senator Diane Feinstein complained that Leon . . .
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April 27, 2009 06:48 PM EDT --
Imagine the Prime Minister of Canada, telling U.S. citizens that they ought to overthrow their national government. It isn't very likely that many people would act on such advice. Canada is, after . . .
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June 08, 2009 06:43 PM EDT --
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) released its opinion in the case of Brent Benjamin today. Benjamin is the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court. In 2004, when the story began, . . .
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June 22, 2009 06:36 PM EDT --
In case you missed it last week, here are Six Silly Stories from the Right about Universal Health Care .
Continuing the discussion from last week, here are nine more fairy tales from the right about . . .
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September 14, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
A passing snippet from the radio: “We, as Christian parents, have to become counter-cultural.”
There is a difference between being counter-cultural and having oppositional-defiant disorder, . . .
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October 17, 2007 11:27 PM EDT --
My sainted mother saddled me with a name that many people find lovely, but after years of having it mispronounced, misspelled, and misunderstood, I changed it. For most of my adult life, I have been known . . .
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June 30, 2008 06:25 PM EDT --
We can all sleep easier now that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held a raid at Action Rags USA, a Houston rag-sorting facility on Wednesday of last week. The raid rounded up 160 highly dangerous . . .
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July 07, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
In his book, Winning Through Intimidation, Robert Ringer says that there is really only one type of person in the business world. They use different techniques, but their modus operandi is to make sure . . .
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July 14, 2008 06:14 PM EDT --
Let's all give a hearty hoo-rah for the Federal Reserve, which is expected to approve rules that protect homebuyers and investors from dishonest lenders. Give Mr. Bernanke the big blue ribbon for being . . .
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August 11, 2008 06:49 PM EDT --
For the second time in two months, the Iraqi government has publicly asked the United States to create a timeline for us to withdraw our forces, and for the second time, American negotiators have balked . . .
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January 19, 2009 06:30 PM EST --
Some people thought it was a good idea to prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying in California. In fact, they thought it was such a good idea that they gave money to help pass Proposition 8. Now . . .
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May 12, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:07 PM EDT --
On Saturday night, Rick Warren, pastor and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life , sat down with Barak Obama and John McCain at his megachurch in California and asked them some tough questions. . . .
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September 01, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
Over the last few years, this last holiday of summer has all but faded away. While banks and government offices close, fewer and fewer laborers find themselves able to celebrate.
The local school . . .
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November 17, 2008 05:32 PM EST --
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore last week, one of the discussions centered on the fact that in spite of their efforts to defeat him, a clear majority of Americans . . .
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