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Original Technorati articles tagged “rights”

• in Film
  Death With Dignity: How to Die in Oregon (2011; now on DVD)
  Would you want the right to choose when it’s your time?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 6, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Is a Zygote a "Person"?
  Mississippi amendment aims to classify every life form - from fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof- as a 'person'
  by isabeltravelsreads / on Oct 27, 2011
• in Politics
  The Death of the 5th Amendment
  Finding someone guilty is easier than ever! Now the government can just say it is so!
  by lukestanek / on Sep 30, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “rights”

 

• Austin Police Chief Trash Talks 2nd Amendment Supporter on Twitter

  
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  Austin Police Chief Trash Talks 2nd Amendment Supporter on Twitter AmmoLand Gun News Washington DC - -( Ammoland.com )- The lack of civility coming from gun control advocates was made apparent again over the weekend when Austin, Texas Police Chief Art Acevedo described a pro-gun twitter user as having  a ...
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• Talking Biopolitics is Back!

  
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  A series of live web-based conversations with cutting-edge thinkers on the social meaning of human biotechnologies will be kicking off tomorrow. RSVP now to join the conversations! read more
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• Gun Bills Pass in New Jersey

  
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  From ANRPC: This afternoon, the New Jersey Assembly passed 4 gun bills, as follows: A3797 (Requires NJ State Police to disclose confidential ATF trace data in violation of federal law). This bill now moves to the Governor’s desk. A3796 (Reopens “assault” firearms compliance window for only 180 days; fails ...
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• March to End Anti-LGBT Hate Violence

  
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  Im at work this evening, but here are some photos I grabbed off my friends FB pages of the march getting started outside The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Greenwich Village. Wilson Cruz, GLAADs national spokesperson said: "While our community has made progress, this is a stark and ...
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• Thein Sein becomes first Burmese president to visit US since 1966

  
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  Former generals trip sparks human rights protests as President Obama uses controversial name Myanmar for country Former general Thein Sein became the first Burmese president to visit the White House in almost 50 years on Monday – a visit human rights groups protested was premature, citing alleged ethnic cleansing ...
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• Ex-Arg. dictator Videla died after shower fall

  
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  Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a hemorrhage suffered in a fall in the shower while he was serving a life sentence for human rights violations. The 87-year-old was found dead Friday in his prison cell, five days after he fell. The ...
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• Do Americans Really Care How Their Clothes Are Made?

  
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  Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good. Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli Akhter, 20, made decent money — about $140 a month — by the impoverished standards of rural Bangladesh. But she missed the family benefiting from ...
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• Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment

  
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  Labour leader votes against amendment extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples after appeal by Tory whips The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings ...
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• Virginia Republicans Have a Vagina Problem

  
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  On Saturday, Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain clinched his partys nomination for attorney general in the November election. And much like the rest of the GOP ticket, hes got some baggage. Think Progress swiftly unearthed a bill he authored in 2009 that would subject women to legal penalties if they fail to ...
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• Church of Scotland to Allow Gay Clergy in Historic Shift

  
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  The Church of Scotland today narrowly approved a rule which would allow gay and lesbian ministers, reports The Guardian : The churchs ruling general assembly voted to allow congregations to admit gay ministers but only if they specifically elect to do so, in a radical departure from more than ...
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• This Is Not Your Grandmas Humane Society

  
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• Fla. Asst. State Attorney Prosecuting High School Senior for Same-Sex Relationship

  
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  Fla. Asst. State Attorney Prosecuting High School Senior for Same-Sex Relationship There is a petition here at change.org urging th eIndian River County (Florida) State Attorney and Assistant Attorney to stop the prosecution of 18-year old Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year old high school senior in a consensual ...
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• Loretta Weinberg on Guns: Confiscate! Confiscate! Confiscate!

  
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  Hell hath no fury like an anti-gunner who doesn’t get her way on gun control. Loretta Weinberg Confiscate! Confiscate! Confiscate! NRA – ILA Charlotte, NC - -( Ammoland.com )- The Star-Ledger reported last Friday that after a closed-door hearing on gun control in the New Jersey Senate the previous ...
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• Is the Nova PBS Premier of “Manhunt – Boston Bombers” similar to “Debunking 9/11 Bomb Theories”?

  
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  Is the Nova PBS Premier of “Manhunt – Boston Bombers” similar to “Debunking 9/11 Bomb Theories” Clearly, the rationale for this form of Political censorship occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. This is often done to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression ...
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• Lessons from Kokeshs kidnapping

  
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  If you can be kidnapped ("arrested") for- and charged with- "assaulting an officer" or for "resisting arrest" when you have clearly done neither , why not fight the cops like your very life depends on it? Because it does , you know. .
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• Federal judge blocks Arkansas abortion ban

  
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  A U.S. judge temporarily blocked an Arkansas ban on abortions at the 12th week of pregnancy, amid continued constitutional debate of the measure. The Arkansas law sets one of the strictest abortion limits in the country. Judge Susan Webber Wright of the Federal District Court in Little Rock issued a…
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• 2010 federal census shows same sex households on the rise

  
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  The 2010 Federal census revealed that there were 600,000 gay households of which 115,000 were raising children.  Whether Scotus votes favorably on the same sex marriage issues, the nation is beginning to open their eyes and see for themselves that what they thought they knew is far from the truth about same sex ...
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• NRA Supports Lawsuit Against Gun Control in Colorado

  
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  Joining 55 Sheriffs, Disabled Individuals. National Rifle Association FAIRFAX, Va. - -( Ammoland.com )- The National Rifle Association is proud to support a lawsuit filed today in federal court by 55 Colorado county sheriffs, the firearms industry trade association, several firearms retailers, individuals ...
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• Here’s Why Christians Are Not The Victims When It Comes to LGBTs

  
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• The “public safety” exception to Miranda then and now

  
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  By Yale Kamisar In 1984 a 6-3 majority of the US Supreme Court established the “public safety” exception to Miranda in a case called New York v. Quarles . Unfortunately, the factual basis for the exception the Court made in this case was quite weak. A woman told the police she had just been raped, that the ...
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