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The Details: Devils or Angels?
Last week, we learned that there is, indeed, now a fundamental right for individuals to keep and bear arms, supplied by the US Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 (the precedents, ... |
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on Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Supremes should play the Prop 8 case 'straight'
The cause of gay rights is a generational thing. That is, if you’re over 60, your synapses may have ossified to the point where you can’t get past the unfamiliarity of homosex... |
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on Apr 4, 2013 at 11:51 am by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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RC Holiday Bonus: Vote for the Best Fiscal Ciffhanger!
If you'll return with us now to the tales of yesterweek, you may recall that the Concord Coalition's game of Principles and Priorities invites players to resolve the Fiscal ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 23, 2012 at 10:41 am by The AlaMojos, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Respect your food, and know from whence it came
If you knew that other animals experience ‘human’ emotions, and that they act with what we call moral sense, would that knowledge change your view of how they ought to be trea... |
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3 hours ago by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Absolute, on the rocks
Wow – and I’m referring not to the privately paid-for Inaugural gown, which was stunning enough, but did anyone happen to catch the actual Inaugural speech – especially since ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 28, 2013 at 6:07 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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W(h)ither Voting Rights?
Human nature being competitive and ethically flexible, if voting was essential to the invention of democracy, could vote-rigging have been far behind? Nope. There is eviden... |
Tom Cushing |
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on May 7, 2013 at 6:50 am by Mr Know-it-all, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Sustainability 1: The Commons
Picture in your mind’s eye a thriving medieval farm village. Each household owns its personal plot of land for tilling, and there’s a large common area – The Commons – on whi... |
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on Apr 17, 2013 at 8:59 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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What have we learned (so far) from Boston?
The nation can now catch its collective breath, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and speedy, live capture of at least one perp. We'll now enter a much longer an... |
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on Apr 27, 2013 at 3:15 pm by American, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Sustainability 2: Green Tyranny?
According to one popular philosopher, “Life moves pretty fast.” But has the world really gone from ‘Silent Spring’ to ‘Green Tyranny’ in three generations? Some folks would ... |
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on May 10, 2013 at 9:59 am by Citizen Paine, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Syria: Several Options, all of them Lousy
Humanitarian crises tug at the heartstrings. The pennies-a-day campaigns of CARE have been working on TV since Lassie was a pup. ASPCA cranks up the Sara MacLachlan songs on... |
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on May 18, 2013 at 6:52 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Serve AND Protect?
That popular slogan reflects what citizens expect from their government: protection from harm and service to the common good. It appears on crests and cop cars across the lan... |
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1 hour ago by JT, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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