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Ugly and Mean
Almost half the states are considering bills or other mandates that would make drug testing for welfare recipients mandatory. Wyoming Republican House Speaker Ed Buchanan summarized the argument and reflected the sentiments of those who favor the measure, “I don’t mind helping you out, but you need to show that you’re looking for work, or…
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Mirror Image
The headline read Hungarian Law Criminalizing Homelessness! Some 30,000 to 35,000 men, women and children are pushed into living in the street in Hungary because of economic conditions and are now subject to criminal sanction. The law has all the earmarks of being inhuman, punitive, out of another era, belonging to an authoritarian regime. It…
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Confronting Ourselves
The new film of well known filmmaker Werner Herzog is about those who live on death row in the United States. Herzog, 69, says that the purpose is to humanize murderers not to excuse their crimes. “The crimes of the persons in the film are monstrous, but the perpetrators are not monsters.” To illustrate the…
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