Category Archives: Constitutional Law

Is It Time To Make Fundamentalism A Crime? Part 3

By Mark Esposito The following is the third installment in a multi-part series exploring religious fundamentalism and the means of checking its excesses. You can read the first part here and the second part here. The discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in 1939 … Continue reading

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Is It Time To Make Fundamentalism A Crime? Part 2

By Mark Esposito The following is the second installment in a multi-part series exploring religious fundamentalism and the means of checking its excesses. You can read the first part here. The clash between fundamentalism and modernity was an inevitable historical … Continue reading

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Not So Curious George Back In Court

By Mark Esposito Heeee’s Back. Put-upon, misunderstood, citizen George Zimmerman, acquitted of gunning down unarmed  Florida teenager Trayvon Martin on a rainy common area between apartments is back in court and being held in jail.  In a Sunshine State courtroom … Continue reading

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Is It Time To Make Fundamentalism A Crime? Part 1

By Mark Esposito The horrific events that played out in Paris certainly will bring fundamental change to that society. Much like our 9/11, the massacres at Charlie Hebdo and a kosher deli have mobilized the French nation to  a new awareness … Continue reading

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St. Louis Man Arrested For Tweeting Alleged Threats

By Gene Howington Jason Valentine, 35, of St. Louis, Missouri, was charged with ten counts of making a terrorist threat. That is one count for each of ten tweets Valentine allegedly made during the month of December with the intention … Continue reading

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How I Went From Casablanca To Hoosiers On The Republican Party

By Mark Esposito A fascinating trope making the rounds on the right-wing blogs this week (here‘s one from the Mothership) concerns Michigan Communications Professor Susan Douglas and her provocative article originally entitled I Hate Republicans. In it, Douglas lays out her indictment … Continue reading

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Mike Brown Shooting: Open Discussion, December 3, 2014

Documents Released in the Ferguson Case Here are documents and evidence presented to the grand jury in Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown.

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Why Shawn Parcells? — “Don’t You Dare Kick That Dog” III

By Bob Stone Benjamin Crump hired world renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to perform a second autopsy. Yet Crump also hired Shawn Parcells to “assist” Dr. Baden; when Dr. Baden requested no such “assistance.”   So what does Shawn Parcells … Continue reading

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While Truth Was Pulling Her Boots On: “Don’t You Dare Kick That Dog!” II

By Bob Stone “If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.”  – Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte On November 6th, if you were paying close attention, you would have noticed a story about Mike … Continue reading

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The Grievance Syndicate’s Push For An Indictment Based On Ideology

Posted by Bob Stone Here’s an interesting article summing up how the grievance syndicate corrupted the thought process of the protesters and much of the country.   Justice Was Served in Ferguson—This Isn’t Jim Crow America ‘Civil rights’ figures decided long … Continue reading

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