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Letters: Smearing Snowden
Re "Bent on shining a light on U.S. security," June 11 The Times' negative portrayal of Edward J. Snowden — mentioning in the first paragraph that he was a high school dropout and a failed military recruit — does a disservice. Snowden's...Tags: Arts and Culture, National Security Agency, HIV, Culture, Social Sciences
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Column: Time to end imposed ignorance of guns
A revealing thing happened in the grief-filled days that followed the massacre of helpless children and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Virtually every conversation about gun control, about any possible remedy for gun...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Personal Weapon Control, Research, Suicide, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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NSA surveillance defeats democracy
"And so the charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air. Built on misrepresentation. Supported by unfounded fear. Held aloft by hysteria. On this and every other tool provided in the Patriot Act, charges of abuse of power...Tags: Security Measures, Politics, Libraries, John Ashcroft , Jarmes R. Clapper
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NSA aftershocks: Leak inspires lawsuit, letters of protest
WASHINGTON — The massive leaks about U.S. spying systems caused sharp political and legal aftershocks Tuesday as the Justice Department prepared to file criminal charges against Edward Snowden, a government contractor who has publicly admitted...
Tags: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Hong Kong, Lindsey O. Graham, Eric Holder, Politics
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ACLU sues Obama administration over NSA surveillance
The American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against key members of President Obama’s national security team over the National Security Agency’s telephone surveillance, the first legal challenge to...Tags: Verizon Communications, PRISM (surveillance program), Jay Carney, American Civil Liberties Union, White House
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Two from Hampton Roads to represent Virginia at Juvenile Diabetes Children's Congress in D.C.
Chesapeake and Virginia Beach residents, Alex Bitterman, 16, and Emmalyne Furman, 4, will be among 150 children from around the country to lobby for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, JDRF, in support of research for Type 1 Diabetes at the biennial...
Tags: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Diabetes, Politics, Hampton Roads, Lobbying
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Democrats seek to avoid repeat of 2010 loss in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another Massachusetts special-election debacle, Democrats are pulling out all the stops for Rep. Edward J. Markey in the contest to keep the Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State John F. Kerry in...
Tags: Polls, Political Candidates, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Marth Coakley, Abortion
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Allan Powell: What gives the U.S. Constitution its legitimacy?
From time to time, I receive an article or book from a reader who was impressed enough with the contents to share it with me. One such gift was a Jan. 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker, with a request to read “The Cult of the Constitution”...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Robert H. Bork, Punishment, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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Column: Scowling face of the state
As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into his campaign to unseat an incumbent...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Federal Election Commission, Executive Branch, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
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Our Take: Rubio's side show
Rubio's side show There are times when Florida's junior U.S. senator, Republican Marco Rubio, makes perfect sense. Like when he's talking about immigration reform. A member of the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight," Rubio is a key player in the...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Marco Rubio, Politics, Immigration
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Obama stumps for 'best chance' immigration bill
WASHINGTON – President Obama said Tuesday that the bipartisan immigration bill now before the Senate is the “best chance we’ve had in years” to fix a broken system and provide a route to citizenship for millions of immigrants who...Tags: Migration, Elections, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), National Security, John Cornyn
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Scientists hope to predict tornadoes by using little drones
With tornadoes, advance warning comes down to minutes. In Moore, Okla., on May 20, it was 16 minutes. In Newcastle, to the southwest, near the spot where the deadly mile-wide tornado that killed 24 people first formed, it was five minutes. Tornadoes...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Research, Technology, University of Oklahoma, Air Transportation Delays
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