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    Court Accountability and Court Corruption

    FEBRUARY 3, 2012 8:08AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: courts, government, corruption, checks and balances, accountability

    • 0 Ratings
    • 183 Views
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    Short Story: "Double Agent" (6th in a series)

    MAY 27, 2011 9:38AM

    By P. Orin Zack


    Topics: fiction, short stories, afl, bankruptcy, big labor, c.c.c.p., checks and balances, communist sympathizer, double agent, intelligence agency, iww, pravda, protected speech, revolution, sabotage, subversive, supreme court, terrorism, treason, wobblies

    • 0 Ratings
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    Ten Things You Need to Know About the Infowar

    APRIL 4, 2011 4:12PM

    By auralee13


    Topics: anonymous, balance of knowledge, checks and balances, class war, infowar, knowledge is power, balance of knowledge, media ownership, media reform, p.r., privacy, wikileaks, politics, technology, economy

    • 4 Ratings
    • 719 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Mental Health and Corruption

    JANUARY 24, 2011 3:34AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: mental health, corruption, abuses, checks and balances, official power, unofficial power, family court, abuses of power, corruption, oversight

    • 1 Ratings
    • 414 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Communitarianism and Creeping Totalitarianism

    JANUARY 21, 2011 2:17AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: checks and balances, mafia, coverups, murder, corruption, law, business, government, old-boy networks, community, communitarianism

    • 24 Ratings
    • 839 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Afghanistan, through the Looking Glass

    OCTOBER 12, 2010 5:04PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, afghanistan, free association, thinking aloud, centralization, vulnerability, founding fathers, distributed control, separation of powers, checks and balances, privacy, patriot act, states rights, original intent, tribal, tribes, vulnerability, tactics, military, shock and awe, war, afghanistan, afghanistan war, iraq, iraq war

    • 13 Ratings
    • 1643 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Big Government, Little Government

    DECEMBER 10, 2009 5:27PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, business, corporation, hierarchy, states rights, states' rights, state's rights, big fish, little fish, mergers, acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, competition, competitiveness, trust, anti-trust, antitrust, many minds hypothesis, distributed, distribution, safeguard, checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism, federation, confederation, sovereign, multiple sovereigns, organization, power, control, governance, government, autonomy, autonomous, corporatism, corporate states rights

    • 4 Ratings
    • 774 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    A new, new world financial order?

    OCTOBER 1, 2009 8:30PM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: checks and balances, congress, ron paul, the free market economy, government regulation, current financial meltdown, ben bernacke, federal reserve board

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 1599 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Disobedience, Civil and Not-So-Civil

    APRIL 26, 2009 9:07AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: recourse, impeachment, impeach, informed electorate, re-election, election, democracy, we the people, democratic rule, checks and balances, dick cheney, cheney, george w bush, george bush, bush, frost/nixon, frost, nixon, lincoln, abraham lincoln, 24, time bomb, ticking, torture, ticking time bomb scenario, war, co, conscientious objector, unjust law, civil disobedience, politics

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1398 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Did the Supreme Court cause our Economic Woes?

    FEBRUARY 9, 2009 7:08AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: global warming, climate change, depression, recession, economic woes, economy, separation of powers, executive power, court appointments, obama, due process, checks and balances, chief justice, supreme court balance, balance of the court, strict construction, original intent, court appointment, confirmation, replacement, appointment, stepping down, step down, retirement, retire, cancer, justice ginsberg, ruth bader ginsberg, bader ginsberg, ginsberg, judges, judge, justices, justice, supreme court, court

    • 8 Ratings
    • 2372 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Toward a Fair and Balanced Supreme Court

    FEBRUARY 6, 2009 7:21AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: 3-3-3, separation of powers, executive power, court appointments, obama, due process, checks and balances, chief justice, supreme court balance, balance of the court, strict construction, original intent, court appointment, confirmation, replacement, appointment, stepping down, step down, retirement, retire, cancer, justice ginsberg, ruth bader ginsberg, bader ginsberg, ginsberg, judges, judge, justices, justice, supreme court, court

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