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Lamar W. Hankins : Ted Cruz’s Opposition to Liberty
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images. States’ rights trump the Constitution:Ted Cruz’s opposition to liberty Cruz’s homophobia is so pronounced that he has criticized other politicians for being too accepting of gays. By Lamar W. … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Peruvian Scholar/Activist Cristina Herencia, UN Observer on Indigenous Issues
Peruvian social psychologist Cristina Herencia in the studios of KOOP Radio, Austin, Texas, Friday, June 14, 2013. Photos by Roger Baker / The Rag Blog. Rag Radio podcast:Social psychologist Cristina Herencia,UN observer on Indigenous Issues Sponsored by the United Tribal … Continue reading
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Turk Pipkin : Remembering James Gandolfini
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano from season six of The Sopranos. Sleep well, Jimmy:Remembering James Gandolfini Though I’d worked a long while in film and television, I never dreamed that a tall drink of water from Texas would end up … Continue reading
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Tagged Actors, Cable Television, Deaths, HBO, James Gandolfini, Television, The Sopranos, Turk Pipkin
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Michael James : Baseball in Moscow and ‘Turf Accountant’ in Belfast
Turf Accountant, a betting parlor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 7, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James‘ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul:Playing baseball in the USSR and drinking Guinness … Continue reading
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Tagged Athletes United for Peace, Belfast, Dublin, Ireland, Memoir, Michael James, Moscow, Pictures from the Long Haul, Soviet Union
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James McEnteer : Escape to Ecuador
Edward Snowden and the flag of Ecuador. Image from Salon.com. Rehanging the crepe paper:Escape to Ecuador Edward Snowden is the latest insider who pulled back the curtain to reveal the wizardry of American Freedom as the diabolical machinations of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Manning, Ecuador, Edward Snowden, James McEnteer, Julian Assange, Surveillance
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Jean Trounstine : Censoring What Prisoners Read
Werewolf erotica: Too sexy for prisoners? Image from The Atlantic Wire. ‘Werewolf erotica’ too ‘sexy’?Censoring what prisoners read The truth is that prisons want to control behavior. They want to ‘reform’ prisoners, which usually means they want to turn out … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Constitutional Rights, Jean Trounstine, Literature, Prison Reform, Prisons
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