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The cost
According to the Joint Economic Committee, this is the per-home monetary cost of a typical repossessed house: Owner: $7,200 in lost equity and moving expenses. Neighbors: $1,508 in lost property value. Local government: $19,227 in lost property tax... -
Truth and the Gitmo detainees
'Islamic terrorists have constitutional rights," lamented one conservative blog when the Supreme Court said Guantanamo inmates can challenge their detention in court. "These are enemy combatants," railed John McCain. The court, charged former federal...Tags: Court Administration, Prisons, John McCain, Trials, Islam
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Working without a net
Economists -- and what few friends the Bush administration still has -- seem flabbergasted at how bleak Americans have grown about their economic prospects. True, gasoline has shot past $4 a gallon. And house prices keep dropping. And unemployment is...Tags: Court Administration, Government Health Care, Federal Reserve, Health and Safety at School, Retirement
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We need to re-examine Second Amendment
Re the Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights: The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights reads, "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall...Tags: Court Administration, United States of America, Defense, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Unrest
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Second Amendment is finally getting its due
"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." That's the operative clause of the Second Amendment — nearly erased from the Constitution in 1939 by a muddled and confusing Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Miller. On...Tags: Court Administration, Punishment, Antonin Scalia, Defense, Personal Weapon Control
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Road congestion
Voters (and drivers) who want some action when the General Assembly's special transportation session reconvenes this week had better let their delegates and senators know they want leadership now, not political trench-digging and sloganeering for 2009....Tags: Government Health Care, Transportation, Sales, Political Candidates, Elections
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'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe story was already written: Vividly rendered on those young faces -- excited, angry, naive, fearful, idealistic. But it was only the first leg of their journey. That's what first struck Eric Etheridge when he first laid eyes on a trove of old mug shots...Tags: Stokely Carmichael, Ku Klux Klan, Assault, Demonstration, Photography
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Reaching To Stifle Students
Let's start with an unremarkable proposition: teenagers have constitutional rights. If they're charged with a crime, they have the right to legal counsel and trial by jury. They can't be stopped by the police and searched without justification. The...Tags: Court Administration, Censorship, Prosecution, Academic Progress, Harwinton
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Employers use law to hold back benefits
The Associated PressDying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer. "He was obsessed with dotting every 'i' and crossing every 't,'" Melissa Amschwand-Bellinger...Tags: Charles Schwab, Court Administration, Trials, Judges, Death and Dying
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History's on their side
Special to the Chicago TribuneRestoring his Kenwood home to its "original grandeur" was rewarding for Daniel Aucunas, who retained the quality architecture and history in the 102-year-old, Queen Anne-style house. The two stages of renovations, begun in the late 1990s, were extensive...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Plainfield, Allen Johnson
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