A scandal has recently hit the New York Police Department, members of which have been convicted of planting drugs on innocent people and then arresting them for possession. This practice, called “flaking,” leads to impressive arrest statistics for a police department. The side effect: massive miscarriages of justice. The practice of false accusation is not [...]
Ann Marie Buerkle says that “the jury is still out on global warming”, but that’s not true. It’s been years now since the professional jury of climate scientists rendered a solid, thoroughly tested judgment that global warming is happening.
Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the worst parts of the Patriot Act can expire, as they were originally intended to do.
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