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Recently, by filing a petition for certiorari (definition) in the Supreme Court of the United States, Julius Jones, a black man condemned to death in Oklahoma, threw the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass in football — one last desperate, prayerful attempt imploring our...
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Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you. C. Kennedy, Ómorphi It’s a sad commentary on a 63 year (so far) life that I can finally report that I have no abusers in my life. It’s the first time I can recall being able...
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So have you had enough of the sideshow? How will you take two years of “I told you so?” Did you even prepare for the possibility that Mueller would not find a bunch of smoking guns, load the bullets, and aim it for you? Did...
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I’m recently returned from the Cairns Mosque, Queensland, Australia where I attended an open day.  Not only was there food on offer (always lovely for nibbles) but more importantly there was a show of faith, faith in the community. For a congregation of approximately 100...
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As a full-time freelance writer – having transitioned from law practice at midlife, accursed with all the selfish, self-doubting sensibilities that kind of crisis entails – Twitter brings out my absolute worst self. With my insuppressible, hereditary, Type-A personality, coupled with my raging but not...
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Recently, the appalling spectacle of a black man condemned by a Georgia jury, a jury that included a racist bigot, reentered the American consciousness. If you haven’t heard about this travesty of justice (yet), or, if you’ve forgotten its details, all you need to know...
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Because I know you have all been waiting with bated breath, here is my “Best and Worst Dressed” list for the 2019 Oscars. At the outset, I have to say this was a terrible year for Oscar’s fashion. I had to edit the “worst dressed”...
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Giving a speech at Georgetown University, late Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., said: “The Constitution is a sublime oration on the dignity of man.” However, after the Supreme Court’s February 7 refusal to stay devout Muslim Domineque Ray’s execution – despite Ray’s unrebutted claim that...
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