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2 Dec 2020, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
But when the abolitionist John Brown seized the largest Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October of 1859, Garrison saw the value of Brown’s martyrdom. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 6 Lawmakers in 5 Days: New COVID-19 infections put spotlight on Congress’ loose guidelines USA Today – Christal Hayes | Published: 11/18/2020 As rampant nationwide coronavirus spikes force states to reexamine reopening efforts, Congress is still struggling to maneuver around the pandemic as it encroaches on legislative business and endangers its members. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 2:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
Five novels had been challenged in Burbank: Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," Theodore Taylor's "The Cay" and Mildred D. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 12:30 pm by John Ross
That includes home bakers like IJ client Cindy Harper, who was excited about the prospect of selling her delicious sugar cookies to friends in Lincoln. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 6:37 am by carlyubll
  Yesterday, the American Library Association (ALA) released the Top 100 Banned and Challenged Books of the Past Decade – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieCaptain Underpants (series) by Dav PilkeyThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherLooking for Alaska by John GreenGeorge by Alex GinoAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter ParnellDrama by Raina TelgemeierFifty Shades of Grey by E. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Behind Trump’s Turkish ‘Bromance’: Lev Parnas, oligarchs and a lucrative lobbying deal NBC News – Aubrey Belford, Adam Klasfeld, Andrew Lehren, and Dan De Luce | Published: 9/22/2020 On January 19, 2017, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, sat down with Brian Ballard, a well-connected lobbyist serving as vice chair of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 4:00 am by James Romoser
Reyes-Torres argues that Chief Justice John Roberts’ crucial concurring opinions “might have offered a road map for future cases aiming to dismantle Whole Woman’s Health, or worse, to overrule it. [read post]
The Wall Street Journal, in contrast, published an op-ed by former Los Alamos laboratory official John C. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 5:21 am by James Romoser
” Also in the series, Michael Harper contends that, after Comcast v. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 5:50 am
If people fear for their livelihoods for relatively minor ideological transgressions, it may not violate the Constitution — the workplace is not the state — but it does create a climate of self-censorship and grudging conformity....John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia who signed the Harper’s Letter, told me that in recent days he’s heard from over 100 graduate students and professors, most of them left of… [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal America’s Governors Get Tested for a Virus That Is Testing Them New York Times – Manny Fernandez, Rick Rojas, Shawn Huber, and Mike Baker | Published: 7/13/2020 Governors have always been judged on their disaster responses, but the coronavirus wreaking havoc across the country these days does not recede like floodwaters and cannot be tamed by calling out the National Guard. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 1:53 pm by Stephen Bates
One reply to the Harper’s letter says that free speech issues can’t be understood apart from “the problem of power: who has it and who does not. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 3:38 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Hill, Harper Neidig and John Kruzel highlight “the five most-anticipated decisions pending before the court. [read post]
5 Jul 2020, 5:46 pm by Howard Bashman
” And Harper Neidig and John Kruzel of The Hill have a report headlined “The five biggest cases awaiting Supreme Court decisions. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
John Hickenlooper won the Democratic Senate primary in Colorado and will face U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 3:56 pm by David Kopel
A radical theorist, Spooner was a hero to many antislavery activists, including John Brown, whose raid on Harper's Ferry was inspired by reading Spooner. [read post]