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Ferguson Police Officer Wilson Not Indicted, Four Constructive Lessons

Posted on 11/25/2014 by Cliff Satell
Ferguson Police Officer Wilson Michael Brown

Last night St. Louis County officials in Missouri announced that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted on any charges following the shooting death of a Michael Brown, a 17-year old

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John Oliver Eviscerates US Prison System

Posted on 07/21/2014 by Cliff Satell
John Oliver Destroys US Prison System

 
"At least sesame street is actually talking about prison; the rest of us are much happier completely ignoring it.  Perhaps because it's so easy not to care about prisoners.  They are by definition

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Marijuana Does Not Kill Mexican Kids

Posted on 05/01/2014 by Cliff Satell
Marijuana activist for medical marijuana

NOTE: I recently came across an old editorial I wrote while still at Duke that was published in the Duke Chronicle. I was responding to a columnists argument against marijuana use. While that alone would

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Successful Ticket Appeal – Fight the Law

Posted on 08/30/2013 by Cliff Satell

As a graduate of Duke, I'm not a fan of the legal system in general, and particularly the "criminal" side of things, including traffic citations. Here is a story, folks:

After getting into an accident,

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Student Arrest, Jailed for Facebook Joke

Posted on 08/15/2013 by Cliff Satell
Student Arrested Facebook Joke

In the latest reminder of how the US Justice System is too infrequently motivated by common sense, a Georgia student has spent the past six months in jail awaiting trial on charges he made a threat to

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  • • Performance Enhancers in Sports & Society
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  • • Problems & Consequences of Moral Luck
  • • Exit polls & early calls in Presidential Elections
  • • The Reagan Revolution
  • • Slave Resistance in the Last Great Hope
  • • Harry Truman & the Origins of Containment

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