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Duke Loses at Basketball and Law

The Duke Law School Blog just coughed up this airball:

“Whatever else we might say about the signing statement that President Obama issued, each of its objections could be raised by a President who disagrees with [the] expansive theory of presidential power that the Bush Administration accepted.”

That shot is rejected by a review of the objections Obama raised. No doubt Obama describes his expansive theory of presidential power read more

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Watching the Obama Online "Town Hall"

By David Swanson

Obama’s “town hall” featuring questions submitted online produced some interesting comments from our president. In response to a question from college students he explained that making student loans directly, without passing them through banks and giving profits to banks from public money, makes more sense. But he claimed that giving far more money than we’ve ever loaned to students to banks to loan to businesses is the only way to save our economy.

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Townhall Talk and a New Way Forward

By David Swanson

Obama’s Thursday “town hall” featuring questions submitted online produced some interesting comments from our president. In response to a question from college students he explained that making student loans directly from the government, without passing them through banks and giving profits to banks from public money, makes more sense. But he claimed that giving far more money than we’ve ever loaned to students to banks in hopes that they will loan it to read more

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hears Complaints Against United States

By David Swanson

Leading human rights organizations in the United States on March 20th presented charges of human rights abuse and torture against the U.S. government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which can recommend actions, including prosecutions, to the U.S. government, other nations’ governments, or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Colleen Costello of the World Organization for Human Rights USA, Michael Ratner read more

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Congress: Tell Them in Person April 4 – 19

By David Swanson

It’s just spring, when the world is puddle-wonderful, and your representative and your two senators pack up their lingerie and come dancing from hop-scotch and toy soldiers to make the trek outside the Beltway for a well-earned vacation sponsored by corporations completely indifferent to legislative news and dedicated to appreciation of nature’s bounty in this season of new birth — er, I mean, to begin a District Work Period dedicated to discovering exactly read more

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NY and MA Events on Accountability, Prosecution, and War Crimes

Is it Still a Crime if a President Does it?
If Obama Keeps the Powers Bush Seized, What Powers Do We Have?
If War Criminals Walk, What Will Prevent Wars?

Join the conversation and get organized to take action at these April events in New York and Massachusetts:

April 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m. New York, NY, panel at the Left Forum at Pace University, One Pace Plaza, organized by Seven Stories Press: David Swanson, Erna Paris, and Minky Worden:
http://www.leftforum.org

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Method to March Madness

By David Swanson

(In which I scientifically prove the outcome of the NCAA tournament, sort of.)

Maybe they should call it ESP and drop the N. Apparently it’s possible — at least in basketball — to predict the future with significant, though far from perfect, accuracy, by being very familiar with the type of event being predicted, and without necessarily understanding how you do it. A recent study by neuroscientists, of which I have only read this read more

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What More in the Name of Love?

By David Swanson

United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the largest coalition of peace groups in the United States, is organizing a national march on Wall Street on Saturday, April 4, to “End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Address the Economic Crisis by Cutting Military Spending.” A separate coalition is organizing marches on Wall Street on April 3 and 4 with a very similar read more

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