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Whats behind the Student Bill of Rights?
July 15, 2005An older generation of teachers may remember the days of California’s loyalty oaths and red scares. During the cold-war, McCarthyite era of the early 1950s, educators accused of being Communists or harboring left-wing views were driven...
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Supremes stand up for big business
July 15, 2005On June 27, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, illegalized peer-to-peer file sharing networks — P2P for short. Motion Picture Association (MPA) moguls, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) giants and other capitalists, who fought...
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A speech about nothing
July 15, 2005To those who advocate a swift end to the disastrous, illegal U.S. war and occupation of Iraq, here’s the good news — we are winning the struggle for public opinion. Yes, the latest polls bear this...
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Can war end terrorism?
July 15, 2005My father called me after the bombings. A World War II “Greatest Generation” veteran, he was shaken by the terrorist attacks on London.
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Letters
July 15, 2005Bring troops home now As I go knocking door-to-door talking about public education issues, including military recruitment in the schools, I meet a lot of parents that have sons or daughters in Afghanistan or Iraq. They...
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