High School Sex Ed.

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A quick quiz on drugs and crime. #2 pencils ready? Set, go.

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Happily smoking a joint with some friends at a Hemp Fest in a state where possession is not a crime--what the XXXX happened!?

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The bombings in Boston: heartsick at the carnage; heartened by bravery and compassion.

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Can distributing condoms get you thrown out of college?

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Deporting immigrants to torture.

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Kids teach high school administrators a lesson.

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The crime of walking while black.

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An open letter to Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage.

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Solitary confinement in ICE.

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Windsor v. the United States aka the ACLU v. DOMA

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When an American state wrongfully convicts and imprisons…

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Did you friend the police on Facebook?

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A quiz: which liberal said this? (Spoiler alert: not a liberal).

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One of the dirty, not-so-secret secrets of the criminal justice system.

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Should women be subject to the military draft?

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Want to hear the lie that judges tell jurors every day?

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Censoring license plates? Let’s ask…Spinal Tap.

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Look up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a…drone!

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I was accused of the most brutal murder in Maryland’s history.

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Once upon a time, in our mother’s house…

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The law would be a great profession if it weren’t for clients…like Barack Obama.

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Listen to what just happened in Vicco, Kentucky. Population: 335.

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Should the film Zero Dark Thirty, about the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden, change its content to not endorse torture?

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Republicans recipe for winning the 2016 presidential election?

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Has “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” actually been abolished?

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At airports, does the TSA still need a naked picture of you?

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We salute "The Middle Finger Salute."

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Paranoia and the 2016 presidential election.

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Legal slavery in America in 2013.

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Can a female employee be fired because her male boss thinks she’s really hot?

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Women subjected to full body cavity searches in public for littering--really?

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Winning the vote, but losing the election.

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Police shootings

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What's an "auld lang syne" anyway?

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Would you like to know how radio commentators try to influence your opinion?

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In memoriam: Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee.

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The DOJ v. Colorado and Washington on marijuana.

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In memoriam: George McGovern

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It's the ACLU Holiday Carolers!

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Was Florida guilty of racist voter suppression in the last election?

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What does the recent presidential election tell us about ourselves?

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Why poor people have a chance in our legal system. In memoriam: Warren Rudman.

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Here's your choice: go to church or go to prison.

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How could some Republicans be so sure that Mitt Romney was going to win?

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In 2012, how did the Republicans lose the popular vote for the House of Reps, but end up with the majority of seats?

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In Brown v. Board of Education, which law clerk believed that the segregationists should have won?

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What happens if you flip the bird to a police officer?

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Post-election civil liberties agenda

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The right to vote is under attack...again.

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Dear Mr. President...

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Recidivism rules...unfortunately.

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Don't embalm free speech.

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Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ?

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Are you sure you can vote this November?

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The story of Osama bin Laden's driver.

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In memoriam: George McGovern.

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The case of state drug lab chemist Annie Dookan.

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Can judges lose their jobs for writing a correct opinion?

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If you believe that your vote for President doesn't matter, will you give me a minute to try to change your mind?

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This civil liberties minute - about standing - may be easier to take sitting down.

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In my next life, I want to be an undecided voter in Ohio.

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Let's consider another kind of death sentence in America.

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So you think the government doesn't have a file on you?

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A lawyer you've probably never heard of - almost by herself - may select the next President of the United States.

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Has the time come for Massachusetts to enact a medical marijuana law?

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"If it's legitimate rape, the female body has a way to shut that whole thing down."

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This is the story of how the war on women is now being fought in Texas.

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Does America execute the mentally retarded?

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What are we to make of Julian Assange hiding out in Ecuador's embassy?

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Breaking news! The male bastion Augusta National Golf Club, where the Masters Golf Tournament is played, has admitted its first two women members.

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Today for you friends and lovers of Google, some fun facts...

To what extent are our communications systems being built on purpose to make surveillance easy?

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Some prison wardens try to prevent inmates from receiving and reading "Prison Legal News"--but prisoners have a constitutional, First Amendment right to receive publications.

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Happy birthday, Woody Guthrie. You would have been 100 years old in July.

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If you think you remember the presumption of innocence, you may be suffering from...a flashback.

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Seek shelter immediately. This is not a test. The cell phone you are carrying is not a phone. It is something else. I repeat - this is not a test.

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Will the Supreme Court strike down or uphold the Federal Defense of Marriage Act?

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The interesting question about Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank's marriage is not why the national press is all atwitter, but rather, why it isn't.

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Here's why the ACLU legal challenge to the new Arizona Anti-Abortion Law is so very important.

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"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion."

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The sleepy town of Middleborough, Massachusetts--previously famous for its cranberry bogs--recently has waded into national news by passing an ordinance that imposes a fine for swearing in public.

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The idea seemed unthinkable, absurd, about as likely as the Loch Ness Monster.

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What has been the effect of the Prison Rape Elimination Act?

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"Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no!"

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Today, a quick quiz to see if you were paying attention in your elementary school social studies class!

Is the Fourth Amendment going to the dogs?

The drones are coming! The drones are coming!

Shhhhh!!! Today we go to the U.S. House of Representatives to find out who favors domestic violence.

Does the Constitution give you the right to audio-visually record a police officer making a bust?

Is there a Muslim exception to the First Amendment?

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May the police search your bedroom for telltale signs that you have committed the crime of using contraceptives?

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The Dallas County Medical Examiner Earl Rose became famous due to one autopsy.