This enlightening juxtaposition is via Frank Pasquale whose entire post on the moral authority of Occupy Wall Street is well worth the read. That about sums it up.
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Topeka Kansas Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence
In Topeka, Kansas city officials are considering a controversial move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city after the Shawnee County government offloaded domestic violence enforcement on to city governments. Cities facing budget cuts and lost revenue are turning to many different cost-cutting measures, but this is perhaps the most extreme. Already, the county government […]
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Does Occupy Wall Street Need a Better Slogan?
An Occupy Wall Street campaign demonstrator protests in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street in New York. Slogans can be tricky. Occupy Wall Street is learning this. There’s always a balance to be struck between catchy, memorable slogans and meaningful ones. When you start using a slogan to actually talk policy, that’s when this balance becomes […]
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Alabama’s Disgraceful Immigration Law is Bad for the Economy
Alabama’s tomato crop is rotting due to the mass exodus of immigrant workers following that state’s draconian new anti-immigrant law. Contrary to popular sentiment, immigration is good for the economy. I wish people could understand this very simple fact: immigration is good for business. Indeed, an open-borders policy that freed up movement of labor across […]
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Obama Administration Shatters Campaign Promise, Escalates Crackdown on Medical Marijuana
Despite promises to the contrary on the campaign trail, the Obama administration has announced an escalation in its war on legal medical marijuana dispensaries in California and elsewhere. Federal prosecutors have sent letters to landlords and owners of dispensaries across California warning them to halt sales of marijuana within 45 days or face property seizures and […]
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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Women’s Rights Activists, Not President Who Authorizes Secret ‘Kill Lists’
It’s probably not a good idea to take the Nobel Peace Prize all that seriously to begin with, but at least this year the prize is going to people who have actually earned it: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three champions of women’s rights in Africa and the Middle East on Friday in […]
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Hank Williams Jr. Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment
Hank Williams Jr. caused a ruckus earlier this week when he compared President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to Adolf Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu. The country singer was dropped from ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’ show almost instantly after the comments. Now Williams is upset and thinks that his rights have been violated by the […]
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What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been: From the Apple IIe to India’s New $50 Tablet
Students display Aakash, which means sky, dubbed the world’s cheapest tablet computer, after its launching ceremony in New Delhi October 5, 2011. All things tech and gadgetry this week have fallen into the long shadow that Steve Jobs cast over the world of innovation. For every tech story there’s a Steve Jobs angle, and in many […]
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Frightening Revelations About the US Government’s Secret ‘Kill List’
When Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen and radical Muslim, was killed by US special ops in Yemen recently many Americans assumed the kill was authorized by president Obama. This was either praised as bold foreign policy or decried as a bridge too far depending on where you turned. But the story might actually be much […]
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The Death Penalty and Pop Culture
Since I’ve covered the death penalty on this blog quite a bit, here’s a little public service announcement: Pop-culture blogger extraordinaire Alyssa Rosenberg is going to be hosting an ongoing series on the death penalty in film and literature and television at her blog. It kicks off on October 19th. You can get a full […]
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