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Archive for September 4th, 2008
Fact-Checking Palin’s Speech
Thank you, CBS News. On their Political Animal blog, find the whole run-down of contradictions in last night’s speech. Many people aren’t familiar enough with her to be able to know, for example, whether she supported the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ For Newsweek’s report on Obama’s acceptance speech, see Obama’s Speech Sometimes Stretched the Facts.
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A Charge of Double-Betrayal in Williamsburg
Marci Hamilton has fought for the abolishment of statutes of limitations [SOL] pertaining to childhood sexual abuse.
The SOLs limit the time that the abused have to take an abuser to court. They usually expire before people molested as children are ready to talk about what happened. This hit close to home recently, as Jewish [...]
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