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SYNDICATED COLUMN: No Man is Above the Law — Except on College Campuses
Freshman orientation, Columbia University, New York City, Fall 1981: Now as then, there were speeches. A blur of upperclassmen, professors and deans welcomed us, explained campus resources and laid...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Here’s the Constitutional Amendment We Need But Never...
Amendment XXVIII: No law governing a basic human need shall be passed in a jurisdiction whose government fails to provide citizens with the means to fulfill that need. Start gathering petition...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: By Law the President Should Have to Give Daily Press...
News conferences are a double oxymoron. Pressers aren’t conferences; conferences involve back-and-forth communication. Nor do they have anything to do with news. News is neither created nor conveyed...
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Hacking Dirty Government Secrets Is Not a Crime
British goon cops acting at the request of the United States government entered Ecuador’s embassy in London, dragged out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and prepared to ship him across the pond....
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Billionaires and Corporations Love anti-SLAPP Laws. Why Does John Oliver?
Why does this multibillionaire need a cartoonist’s money? John Oliver recently dedicated his HBO show to why we need a federal anti-SLAPP law. Like most of his stuff, the episode was witty...
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If There’s a Warrant for Your Arrest, the Government Should Have to Tell You
There ought to be a law. I read about Eric Barrier, half of the classic rap duo Eric B. and Rakim, and how he recently wound up in jail. The story is interesting not because...
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Adult Crime, Childish Thinking Time
Once again a child has been subjected to the legal absurdity of being charged as an adult. This time the target is Ethan Cumbley, suspect in a mass school shooting in Michigan. If you can pretend that...
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Clean Our Mess: Release Guantánamo Detainees in the U.S., Close the Camp
Parents teach their children: you make a mess, you clean it up. Twenty years ago, the United States government transformed its naval base at Guantánamo Bay into a legal, moral...
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Make Text Messages Private
Nearly a decade ago, the Edward Snowden revelations prompted a national debate about data security. Polls show that a growing number of Americans take data-security precautions like...
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Supreme Court to Progressives: Wake Up
The Supreme Court just sent us a wake-up call. Pro-reality Americans, i.e. the 40% of voters to the left of the Democratic Party, should be grateful. A freedom essential to...
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