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U.S.

Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin Law Requiring Photo ID at Polls

By MONICA DAVEY and STEVEN YACCINO | Apr 29th 2014

The judge found that the 2011 law, which required voters to produce state-approved photo identification cards at polling places, violated the 14th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

Fourteenth Amendment (US Constitution); Voting Rights Act (1965); State Legislatures; Decisions and Verdicts; Identification Devices; Voter Registration and Requirements 

A judge to honor.

 

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Opinion

The Wire Next Time

By SUSAN CRAWFORD | Apr 27th 2014

Municipal networks are the answer to the end of net neutrality.

Net Neutrality; Computers and the Internet; Local Government; Urban Areas 

The fight is far from over.

Municipal networks in any form are opposed by the same forces as oppose "net neutrality".

I understand that Verizon has recaptured the backbone monopoly.

The proper regulatory response is to reimpose the "common carrier" rules.

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U.S.

Optimism as Detroit Makes Pacts on Finances

By STEVEN YACCINO and MONICA DAVEY | Apr 28th 2014

While many issues remain, a deal with representatives of current city workers is one of a number of agreements the city is making to climb out of bankruptcy.

Pensions and Retirement Plans; Collective Bargaining; Bankruptcies; Government Employees; Organized Labor 

Happy talk about Republican losses.

Detroit should not emerge from bankruptcy without an feasible operating plan to industrialize.

It will take real and continuing income.

 

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Magazine

Behind the Cover Story: Charles Siebert on the Fight for Animal 'Personhood'

By RACHEL NOLAN | Apr 28th 2014

Charles Siebert, a contributing writer for the magazine, on the possibility of animals gaining some of the same legal rights that people enjoy.

Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare; Animals; Monkeys and Apes; Suits and Litigation (Civil) 

Any extension of "personhood" will be a taking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canibalism

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Business Day

Video: ‘Dripping’ and E-Cigarettes

Sean Patrick Farrell | May 3rd 2014

Trey Hudson of Oklahoma City, Okla., demonstrates how he drips nicotine solution onto the heating element of his tank-system e-cigarette.

Nicotine; E-Cigarettes 

This looks like addiction.

 

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Opinion

Energy Incentives

May 3rd 2014

Get the rates right.

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Business Day

A Ghost Town, Going Green

By DIANE CARDWELL | Apr 30th 2014

no

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Opinion

Will Liberal Cities Leave the Rest of America Behind?

By THOMAS B. EDSALL | Apr 29th 2014

Wrong and badly reasoned.

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World

In Spite of the Law, Afghan ‘Honor Killings’ of Women Continue

By ROD NORDLAND | May 3rd 2014

They are not ours or our problem.

 

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World

U.S. and Philippines Agree to a 10-Year Pact on the Use of Military Bases

By MARK LANDLER | Apr 27th 2014

A good thing.

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U.S.

Tennessee: Governor Signs Bill Targeting Drug Use During Pregnancy

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Apr 29th 2014

Bad science, bad law.

Fetal alcohol syndrome is real.

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World

On Bridges in Paris, Clanking With Love

By ALISSA J. RUBIN | Apr 27th 2014

Know I love you.   I will tell you as often as you wish.

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World

Vowing Changes, South Korean Leader Apologizes for Ferry Disaster

By CHOE SANG-HUN | Apr 29th 2014

She was not responsible.

The changes are needed.

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Fashion & Style

Oakland: Brooklyn by the Bay

By MATT HABER | May 2nd 2014

Emerging from the shadow of San Francisco, Oakland has found its own style, shopping and food. But gentrification is a growing concern.

Gentrification 

Time to find a better place.

 

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Business Day

Toyota Will Shift 4,000 to New Offices in Texas

By BILL VLASIC | Apr 28th 2014 

A Texas sized purchase by Texas Republicans.

 

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Opinion

Voter ID Is the Real Fraud

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Apr 29th 2014

A federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s voter-identification law, making it clear that the law was a harmful solution in search of an imaginary problem.

Identification Devices; Voter Registration and Requirements; Voting Rights Act (1965); Editorials; States (US) 

Yes.

 

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In Our Pages: April 28

By INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE | Apr 27th 2014

Highlights from the International Herald Tribune archives: Events to popularize French cheese are held in New York in 1939; United States restricts advertising for cigarettes in 1964.

Advertising and Marketing; Cheese; Smoking and Tobacco 

I do not use tobacco.  If you do I will try to help you quit.

I do like cheese.

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Opinion

Values and Data Meet at a Vatican Workshop on Sustaining Humanity on a Flourishing Planet

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Apr 30th 2014

The Vatican hosts a meeting considering the mix of science, technology and values-laden choices that will determine the quality of life — human and otherwise — on Earth in coming decades.

Economics (Theory and Philosophy); Environment; Global Warming; Religion and Belief; Science and Technology; Sociology; Sustainable Living 

Good.  I am happy for them.  

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Health

A New Benefit for Heart Failure Patients

By PAULA SPAN | May 2nd 2014

Medicare now pays for cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure patients. But will they use it?

Elder Care; Heart; Medicare; Therapy and Rehabilitation 

It is too late for my mother and far too early for me.  

I do not believe I am in heart failure.  I have just seen it run its course.

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World

At Least 3 Die in Collapse of Gold Mine

By WILLIAM NEUMAN | May 1st 2014

The collapse of the illegal gold mine occurred late Wednesday night in western Colombia, and rescuers were searching for other miners believed to be missing.

Mines and Mining; Accidents and Safety; Deaths (Fatalities); Gold 

Gold is "a barbarous relict"  

Despite the financial group's faith we do not have significant inflation.

The price of gold is a speculative bubble.

The trench cannot be more than about eighteen feet deep.

The length of a backhoe arm at full extension.

Deep enough to kill the workers at the bottom in a fall of wall.

This is a placer operation.  They are not digging quartz.

         

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