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Ubiquitous misstatements in the United States Senate
May 27, 2016 | By JAMES BURLING
caption id="attachment_41883" align="alignright" width="300" Senator Whitehouse calls PLF a "creepy front group" from Senate floor/caption On May 17 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave a 17 minute speech to a largely empty Senate chamber attacking Exxon for that company's alleged climate change denial. You can see the Senator's speech here at the 9 ho ...
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Should we send dissenters to jail?
September 18, 2015 | By JAMES BURLING
Is it time to jail dissent? When faced with an existential crisis, the needs of society may outweigh the rights of individuals, right? Under that theory, of course, it was perfectly acceptable for the politicians in charge of the early Republic to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts, making it a crime to criticize the President and the government. ...