Meadmaker, have you ever read Justice John Paul Stevens dissent to the SCOTUS ruling on Citizen's United?
I recommend it, though it is long it is quite interesting.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-205P.ZX
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- Sun May 12, 2024 5:30 am
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- Sat May 11, 2024 10:14 am
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- Topic: Does the Southern Hemisphere still have Boy Scouts?
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Re: Does the Southern Hemisphere still have Boy Scouts?
Where I grew up was very pretty rural Wisconsin, all farmland and old woods where we could go looking for imaginary abandoned German prison camps. Scouting wasn't anywhere on the radar screen.
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:57 pm
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Things are getting strange...
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- Fri May 10, 2024 6:00 pm
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Not too hard to guess what's being indicated here. Oh, the blond woman is Stormy Daniels.
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- Fri May 10, 2024 5:13 am
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- Topic: Does the Southern Hemisphere still have Boy Scouts?
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Re: Does the Southern Hemisphere still have Boy Scouts?
A (mostly) Southern Hemisphere country has about eighteen times the times the number of Scouts the US has according to this map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerakan_Pramuka_Indonesia The Pramuka Movement incorporates both boys and girls. It is an educational movement through Scouting activities, t...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:33 pm
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- Topic: Planet America
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Murdered by a police officer for opening his door...
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- Thu May 09, 2024 6:13 pm
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- Topic: Weather
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Re: Weather
Any big storms in the stankerosa yesterday?
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:25 pm
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- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
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Every free society will have some element of plutocracy, after all. No shit. NZ is held up as a close-to-perfect democracy, where every vote counts, but even when a left government is voted in we end up with the same old shit. Rich people got richer faster under Labour than they did under the prior...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:16 am
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hmmm... does the Press Clause of the First Amendment give the institutional press any freedoms from government restraint not enjoyed by everybody else? Not really. Exactly. It gives them exactly the same amount of freedom. There have been attempts to impose restraints on the press, usually in the n...
- Wed May 08, 2024 12:22 am
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One more note about democracy. When the Founding Fathers got together and wrote the 1st ammendment, they included in it the right to free speech, and the right to a free press. Two different rights. We talk about free speech more often, but the free press is more relevant here. Having a free press ...