Renzo DowneyJanuary 27, 2022
5min0
Democrats argued the bill may unconstitutionally discriminate on the basis of sex.
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Renzo DowneyJanuary 27, 2022
Scott PowersJuly 2, 2019
7min474
'Plaintiffs’ eligibility to vote is based entirely on their financial status', suit argues.
Ryan NicolNovember 1, 2018
8min477
Republican Maria Elvira Salazar appears to be playing to both side of the controversy surrounding Donald Trump‘s proposal to end birthright citizenship via an Executive Order. Salazar is competing with Donna Shalala in Florida’s 27th Congressional District. Trump claimed Tuesday that he was reviewing whether to use an EO to revoke birthright citizenship as a […]
Martin DyckmanJuly 31, 2016
9min196
Thousands of speeches have I heard and forgotten since my first byline 64 years ago. Very few have deserved to be remembered nearly as much as Khizr Kahn‘s 368-word address to the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. Eloquent and powerful in its simplicity and directness, it was timely, to the point, and to the heart […]
Darryl PaulsonApril 13, 2016
6min206
In 1868, Florida passed a law making it illegal for a “Negro man and a white woman … who are not married to each other … to habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room.” Violation of the law was a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and […]
Diane RobertsNovember 25, 2015
7min190
It’s America’s holiday season, when we’re supposed to give thanks for our blessings, when we gather around tables laden with festive food, commemorating a bedraggled boatload of refugees who just showed up one day on our shores, needing a decent meal and a safe place to crash. The Wampanoag welcomed those undocumented immigrants back in […]
Diane RobertsNovember 24, 20157min291
It’s America’s holiday season, when we’re supposed to give thanks for our blessings, when we gather around tables laden with festive food, commemorating a bedraggled boatload of refugees who just showed up one day on our shores, needing a decent meal and a safe place to crash. The Wampanoag welcomed those undocumented immigrants back in […]
Martin DyckmanAugust 31, 20156min410
How don’t we love Donald Trump? Let us count the ways. He is arrogant, artful, audacious, autocratic, avaricious, biased, bigoted, blustering, bombastic, bossy, a braggart, calculating, capricious, chauvinistic, coarse, conceited, cocky, crude, cunning, contriving, cynical, dangerous, deceitful, dislikable, duplicitous, dogmatic, dictatorial, dissentious, domineering, egotistical, erratic, evasive, feckless, haughty, high-handed, hypocritical, imperious, inconsistent, inflammatory, insatiable, insidious, […]
Guest AuthorJune 2, 20147min199
Amidst the Memorial Day barbecues, shopping sprees, sporting events and endless miles of “are we there yet?” there were speeches and commentaries to remind us of the fallen and the freedoms they died to protect. Typically, these tributes mentioned the rights specified in the Constitution: religion, speech, assembly and press. U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross wrote […]