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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Up w/ Chris Hayes: Stop-and-frisk in the NYC race for mayor
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GSA breach highlights dangers of SSNs as IDs | How To - CNET
A recent security breach at the U.S. General Services Administration highlights the dangers of using your Social Security Number for identification. Federal and state laws restrict use of SSNs by public and private organizations.
GSA breach highlights dangers of SSNs as IDs | How To - CNET
Marriage @ the Supreme Court: The homestretch
Last night (which was cold here in DC), the line began to form for seats to hear the oral argument in the two gay marriage cases that the Supreme Court will consider next week. First up on Tuesday morning will be the challenge to Prop 8; on Wednesday, the Court will hear the DoMA case. The ACLU lawyers who brought the DoMA challenge did a moot of their arguments this morning at Georgetown Law Center, and - promising confidentiality - more than 100 Georgetown law students got to listen. Plaintiff Edith Windsor attended, and students lined up afterward to speak with the woman who inspired what may become one of the most important civil rights cases in our lifetimes.
Marriage @ the Supreme Court: The homestretch
Saturday, March 23, 2013
China and Japan Spar Over War Trials, More Than 6 Decades On - NYTimes.com
China and Japan Spar Over War Trials, More Than 6 Decades On - NYTimes.com: "BEIJING – What would international reaction be if Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, were to publicly cast doubt on the fairness of the Nuremberg Trials, which condemned top Nazis at the end of World War II?
Something quite similar may have happened recently in Japan, where, according to media reports, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cast doubt on the Tokyo Trials there (these found about two dozen prominent Japanese guilty of war crimes; seven were sentenced to death).
Here’s a headline from the Japan Daily Press: ‘PM Abe says WWII war crime trials were just ‘victors’ justice.’ ’
‘In a meeting of the House of Representatives Budget Committee last Tuesday, Abe said that what the world now thinks of the outcome of World War II was dictated by the victorious Allied Forces and it is only under their judgement that the Japanese were condemned,’ the Japan Daily Press article said, citing an article in The Telegraph.
World War II is still a sensitive topic not just in China but further afield in Asia, where memories of brutality by the invading Japanese Imperial Army linger and many believe that Japan, unlike Germany, has never entirely faced up to what it did. Memories may be bitterest in China, where millions died and where the government uses anti-Japanese sentiment to bolster nationalism.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer, Dies at 82 - NYTimes.com
He was a great writer. Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God deeply impacted me while in college and afterwards.
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer, Dies at 82 - NYTimes.com
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer, Dies at 82 - NYTimes.com
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Last Word: Restraining orders and the NRA
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages | Politics and Law - CNET News
Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Silicon Valley firms and privacy groups want Congress to update a 1986-era electronic privacy law. But if a law enforcement idea set to be presented today gets attached, support for the popular proposal would erode."
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Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages | Politics and Law - CNET News
Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages | Politics and Law - CNET News: "Silicon Valley firms and privacy groups want Congress to update a 1986-era electronic privacy law. But if a law enforcement idea set to be presented today gets attached, support for the popular proposal would erode."
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Rachel Maddow: Maryland terminates death penalty
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