BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

I had no illusions.  I didn’t kid myself that he was perfect.  From the start, there were things that bugged me.
He supports the death penalty even as he acknowledges it does little or nothing to deter crime.  (He’s credited with working to reform its application here in Illinois, but from my POV, this is a [...]

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After a couple of atypical decisions the SCOTUS is right back on BushTrack with a decision that ignores the language of the Second Amendment - a No-No for these so-called “strict constructionists”, but then there’s nothing new about them going against their own supposed “legal philosophy” when an ultraconservative ideology needs to be confirmed - [...]

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