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Opinion: The Dangerous Distortion of “Fairness” in the Student Loan Forgiveness Debate
Biden’s plan is an effort to create fairness and equity when it comes to access to higher education.
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Opinion: Joe Scarborough’s Ignorant Anti-Socialism Exposes Dangers of Conservative Ideology
Scarborough’s logic is exactly that which also enables the anti-vaccination movement and, frankly, movements to undermine democracy.
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GOP Legislatures Invoke Civil Rights to Prevent Fictitious Vaccination ‘Mandates’
Why are republicans so opposed to COVID vaccines? Claiming it is “political” is reductive. Perhaps the motive is more insidious.
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Opinion: Biden’s Support For Labor Unions Is Unprecedented Promotion Of Democracy Itself
When President Joe Biden recently voiced support for unions, encouraging workers at Amazon currently involved in a vote to unionize or not to take part in this process, Biden was really just standing up for democracy itself.
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Decrying Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Justices Thomas and Alito Endorse Trump’s Assault on Civil Rights
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former country clerk who, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage, who refused to issue certificates for such marriages because of her religious objections to…
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Trump-Barr-DeVos Triumvirate See Privatization As Backdoor Route To Destroying Civil Rights
Walking down Main Street, couples, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, cannot be legally denied the right to hold hands, share a hug, or kiss–if Main Street is part of the public square, that is. Move Main Street onto private property, in our America that as a general rule gives precedence to property rights…
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Trump even Defies Supreme Court in Inflicting His Hate on Transgender Americans
The American people, polls indicate, have not been buying the bill of goods Donald Trump has been selling in his strenuous attempts to represent himself as the “law and order” candidate. They seem to understand Trump is the creator of chaos and the one disrespecting and defying the nation’s laws at every turn, not Biden….
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John Lewis Appeals for National Redemption in Powerful Posthumous Article
John Lewis made one final appeal to the American people on Thursday in the form of an op-ed written before he passed away. The column was published on the day of his funeral. The New York Times published the piece, entitled “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” on the very day the Civil Rights…
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Bittersweet Week in Supreme Court Underscores Trump’s Threat to Civil Rights and Basic Humanity
When Donald Trump appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavannaugh to the Supreme Court bench, hopes certainly dimmed substantially for a court majority that would vigorously protect, much less expand, basic civil liberties, especially for women, LGBTQIA people, people of color, and immigrants. Worries abounded, with good reason, that the court might function effectively as…
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Trans Lives Matter, Too: November 2020 Will be a Reckoning on Civil Rights for All
Amidst the recent mass nationwide uprisings, dominated by the sentiments of the Black Lives Matter movement, an effective reincarnation of the Civil Rights Movement, the Trump administration has continued its efforts to deny transgender people civil rights, denying them equal protections under the law. Let’s look at just two recent examples of the Trump administration…
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Opinion: Does America Really Value Equality? What Women and Transgender People Might Say
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.” This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…
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Opinion: “Judicial Modesty” Is The New Legal Fig Leaf For Denying Civil Rights To LGBTQ Americans
While we don’t yet know how the Supreme Court will decide the major civil rights question before it regarding whether or not gay and transgender people are protected under federal legislation that outlaws employment discrimination “on the basis of sex,” the nature of the debates and the questions raised from the bench last week when…
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How Civil Rights History Can Guide Democrats in Impeachment Decision
We need to know, and the nation’s knowing depends on Congress taking the lead, not waiting for the people’s will to catch up.History shows that’s not how we realize our ideals and uphold the Constitution.
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Roman J. Israel, Esquire, a Film that Connects Us to Our Radical Past to Challenge Trump’s Malevolence
Dan Gilroy’s 2017 film Roman J. Israel, Esquire, starring Denzel Washington and still lingering in theaters, has either been critically panned or just plain overlooked.
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DHS Goes After First and Fourth Amendments With Expanded Social Media Surveillance
The DHS is ready to put digital Star of David armbands on every immigrant, and every naturalized American, according to Buzzfeed.
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From Rauner to Trump, GOP Practices Politics of Erasure
The problem is, again, that those constituents you and I might call people, the GOP, federally and at the state level, have decided are “not even people.”
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Jeff Sessions Makes An Unbelievable Promise to Protect Civil Rights For All Communities
On Thursday, Attorney-General Jeff Sessions told Federal Prosecutors he is committed to prosecuting hate crimes. Why don’t I believe him? During Sessions’ speech he pledged “to protect the civil rights of all Americans — and we will not tolerate the targeting of any community in our country” I feel so much better about the rise…
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Pro-Life Justice Neil Gorsuch Votes For Death in Capital Punishment Case
In a sign of votes to come Justice Neil Gorsuch set aside his regard for human life and cast his vote to deny the stay of execution for death-row inmates in Arkansas.
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Opinion: Federal Appeals Court Rules it Is Illegal To Fire People Because They’re Gay
No one should be fired for being lesbian, gay, or transgender like happened to me and it’s incredibly powerful to know that the law now protects me and other LGBT workers.”
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Opinion: North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill Repeal Is Sham
“This ‘deal’ does NOT repeal HB2. It’s HB2 dressed up in a way desperate lawmakers hope will save the state’s economy. There will be consequences for Dem and Rep alike.
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Opinion: Trump Unleashes Hell By Rescinding Transgender Kids’ Protection
By following evangelical preachers’ edict to legalize discrimination against school-age children, Trump unleashed his theocrats and set a dangerous precedent.
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Trump Administration Strips LGBTQ Rights Just Days After Sessions Confirmation
After only three weeks of this new administration, the fears of the LGBTQ community are becoming a reality.
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Al Franken’s Dramatic Exposure of Sessions’ Civil Rights Record Gets Crickets
Through his questioning, Senator Al Franken exposed Jeff Sessions’ lies about his civil rights record in his questionnaire to the committee.
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Too Racist to Be Federal Judge in 80s, Jeff Sessions to be Trump’s Attorney General
“I told you the shit show would become so intense that the Bannon fiasco would soon seem like distant memory.”
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In a Microcosm of National Politics, Bigotry May Cost Republicans Dearly in North Carolina
“I wouldn’t vote for anybody that does something like that. The logic, I just can’t figure it out at all. It’s not comprehensible for me. It’s just too stupid.”
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Civil Rights Museum Rejects Trump for Being Aggressive, Rude and Racist
The approach, the disrespect, and bullying to use the museum was inappropriate and reflective of the insensitivity [to] civil and human rights reflective of Trump over the years.
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Racist Republicans Crusade To Keep Dr. Martin Luther King’s Dream Unfulfilled
Despite the Civil Rights Movement, racism is as rampant in America as it was when Dr. King marched and revealed his dream.
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Dirty Liar Charles Koch Campaigns As An Advocate For the Poor
The only regard Charles or David Koch have for the poor is keeping them in poverty and subjugated to the rich at any cost
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Texas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Denying Citizenship To US Born Hispanic Children
Texas has been violating the 14th amendment, by refusing to issue birth certificates to American-born children of undocumented immigrants.
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Racist Republican Leadership Absent From 50th Anniversary of Selma
One group that was glaringly absent from Selma on Saturday was any substantial representation of racist Republicans; most notably Republican leaders in Congress.
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Racists Demand Punishment For African Americans Exercising First Amendment Rights
For decent Americans it is beyond comprehension that it is acceptable for white supremacists, whether they are St. Louis-area cops or owners of a sports bar, to demand that African Americans suffer punishment for exercising their constitutional rights.
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Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights
Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.
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Eric Holder Calls Out the Rampant Subtle Racism in American Culture
In Holder’s commencement speech, he noted that racially-motivated outburst from the likes of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling were much less of a threat to equality than the more subtle, everyday racism such as what he sees in the criminal justice system.
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King Ended the Reign of Terror So Now It’s Time For the Truth About White Privilege
White people have largely ended violence. Now, it is time for telling the truth about privilege and facing what it means to lose it.
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Conservatives Call For The Lynching of President Obama
A racist conservative Facebook group “America the next generation” created a photo-shopped image of President Barack Obama with a hangman’s noose around his neck.
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Water Fountains: Memories From the Jim Crow South Remain Vivid In a Cartoonist’s Mind
Those of us who were destined to become cartoonists started remembering visual images at a very early age. Those images are often the source of certain cartoons.
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For Many Americans There is Little To Be Thankful For On Thanksgiving
There are plenty of things for all Americans to be thankful for, but sadly, a substantial segment of the population has little reason to be grateful on this official “day of thanksgiving.”
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The Mainstream Media Continues to Ignore Rampant Republican Fueled Racism
Instead of a public outcry against blatant racism, main stream media failed to report the story on every evening newscast across the country.
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Obama Understands Thomas Jefferson Better Than So Called Republican Patriots
Obama clearly understood the need to remind Americans of Jefferson’s words at the beginning of his speech, and it is evident that Republicans need to be reminded that “all men are created equal.”
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Republicans Are Doing Their Best to Kill Dr. King’s Dream
It’s good that Dr. King is not around to see his dream set back 50 years because it is contrary to Republicans and their supporters’ dream who still judge a man by the color of his skin
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Note to Republicans: Americans Know Not to Trade Cookies For Their Civil Rights
The American people are not stupid, and can’t be tricked by Republicans carrying plates of cookies into giving up their civil rights.
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White House Petition calls for Civil Rights Charges Against George Zimmerman
A new White House petition is requesting prosecution of George Zimmerman for depriving Trayvon Martin of his constitutional rights of life and liberty.
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Free Speech Is an Unclear Concept to the Tea Party
Like most things including the second amendment, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party has a special way of understanding those other provisions – especially the first amendment.
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Why Recognizing Marriage Equality Shouldn’t be Left to the States
Roger Gorley and Allen Mansell’s story shows that being in a socially recognized committed relationship extends way beyond the equivalent of a corporate merger.
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Rob Portman Continued Casting Anti-Gay Votes Long After His Son Came Out
No one denies that Portman loves his son, but the senator continued casting anti-gay votes long after his son revealed he was gay.
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Conservatives and Religious Fanatics Demand that Gay-Hate Remain a Part of Boy Scout Policy
The gay-hate being defended by the right is not part of the Boy Scout’s motto or any of Christ’s teachings, and fortunately, there are Boy Scouts and “real” Christians who have finally figured it out.
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If Elected Romney Promises to Borkize the Supreme Court
Mitt Romney gave us ample warning of what he would do to the Supreme Court’s balance when he chose Robert Bork as the head of his judicial advisory team.
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Extremists Listen to Republican Rhetoric and Prepare for Race War Against Obama
America is fracturing apart and when these heavily-armed groups begin shooting it is all down to Republicans inciting opposition to President Obama and violence against the government.
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Romney’s Fail Causes Conservative Call to Vote for Ron Paul for Jesus
On the heels of Romney failing to consummate his relationship with conservatives properly, they are calling on their fellow Republicans to vote third party for Jesus.
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The Republican Platform Aims at a Time Before the Constitution
Republicans don’t want to take back our country; they want to take our country back, back to a time before the United States, before the Constitution to the unworkable Articles of Confederation, to pre-Constitutional religious intolerance and oppression of minorities and of women.
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The Media Drops The Ball With Same Sex Marriage Moral Equivalence Argument
The media hasn’t gone far enough in arguing against a referendum on same-sex marriage in New Jersey.
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Chris Christie’s Dangerous Attack on the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution was written by 55 men and signed by 39, but Chris Christie says 121 men and women can’t give New Jersey a marriage law
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Chris Christie Endorses the Popular Tyranny Founding Fathers Feared
Chris Christie has shown himself to be a proponent of the popular tyranny the Founding Fathers feared and wrote the Constitution to address
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As Simple As Black and White: The GOP’s Secessionist Dream
It has been 150 years since the Confederacy of Southern States seceded from the United States of America starting the deadliest war in American history. It should be a time to reflect on the disastrous turn of events that ripped America apart with a view toward never taking that terrible path again, but instead, some southern states are celebrating secession with balls and celebrations. As if celebrating America’s darkest times wasn’t bad enough, new talk of secession and nullification signals a long standing hatred of the United States of America by racists in the South, and the hate is spreading across the country.
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Americans Are Less Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage, Poll Shows
“The shift in opinion on same-sex marriage has been broad-based, occurring across many demographic, political and religious groups,” Pew announces.