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In Theory: Should secessionists succeed?
More than 750,000 Americans have signed a petition to let their states secede from the U.S.A. since the Nov. 6 election, including people from Alaska, Maryland, Texas, Iowa and Vermont. And many of them, or at least their leaders, are claiming they're...Tags: Belief and Faith, Human Interest, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice, Salt
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...
Tags: Mike Lee, Social Issues, Abortion, Bob Dole, Treaties
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40 years of Roe and Doe
Forty years ago Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided one of its most important cases: Doe v. Bolton. Never heard of it? Not surprising, but sad. That decision set the divisive tone of American political debate for the 20th century's last quarter...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Family, Social Issues, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Abortion
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Ireland to seek change in abortion law after woman's death
The Irish government announced Tuesday that it would draft new laws and regulations to spell out when doctors can terminate a pregnancy, weeks after an ailing woman was refused an abortion and perished. Exactly what rules will be proposed is still...Tags: Family, Jacob Zuma, Human Rights, Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sundance 2013: 'After Tiller' puts a face on abortion doctors
This post has been corrected. For details, see the note at the bottom. Premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. documentary competition, “After Tiller” is an intimate and heartfelt look at the four doctors...
Tags: Movies, Film Festivals, Medical Procedures and Tests, George Tiller, Social Issues
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Crafting gun laws without the likes of …
"This is a serious time," said the fundamentally unserious former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh during an interview on WTTW-Ch. 11's "Chicago Tonight" program last week. "My side — the side that believes in freedom and limited government; the...
Tags: Government, Joe Walsh, Chicago Mayor, Timothy McVeigh, Clarence Thomas
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Kingsley Guy: Florida voters are not Puritanical
The late Washington Post columnist David Broder, during the Reagan administration, described the GOP as a coalition of "latter-day Puritans and closet libertarians." Broder's description still holds true. When the closet libertarians predominate, and the...Tags: Jeb Bush, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Social Issues
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The war on, for and about women in Charlotte
To reach the Convention Center, you must first walk the gauntlet of dead baby parts. It's one of the newer and more gruesome tactics in the fight over reproductive choice, protesters hoisting large color placards depicting aborted fetuses torn in...
Tags: Apple iPod, The Miami Herald, Medical Procedures and Tests, Democratic Party, Abortion
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Maryland to adopt guidelines for abortion clinics
Operators of abortion clinics in Maryland will have to apply for licenses and meet strict guidelines under new regulations being adopted by state health officials next month. The regulations, announced by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on...Tags: Lobbying, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Roman Catholicism, Social Issues
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Religious leaders forge game plan at Bears' practice site
Tribune reporterOwners of the Chicago Bears hosted religious leaders and politicians Sunday at the team’s practice facility, where speakers lamented the “eroding freedom to speak in the language of faith in the public square.” The Reclaiming...Tags: Belief and Faith, Virginia McCaskey, Chicago Mayor, Gays and Lesbians, Health Insurance
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Anthony Kennedy, Credit and Debt, Gays and Lesbians, The Pentagon
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Ryan Reader Redux
Change of SubjectFound in the surf (Part One is here) The pitch is that these two men are a kind of Geek Squad for the nation: efficient problem solvers who love numbers and analysis. Romney has the executive skills and Ryan knows......
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