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Letters at 3AM: He Took the Cat to Texas
This is the final story in the many-storied life of Mayer Vishner
Michael Ventura
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Letters at 3AM: The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation
Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent
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Letters at 3AM: Just Since April
Secret surveillance efforts fly in the face of our Constitution
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An Arbitrary Nation: Part 7
Journalists and political commentators largely ignore the facts they know
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An Arbitrary Nation, Part 6
The Ninth and Tenth are the invisible Bill of Rights amendments – universally ignored
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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5
Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country
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Letters at 3AM: The Patriot Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is the American equivalent of the man who stood in front of that tank in Tiananmen Square
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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4
With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law
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Letters at 3AM: Obama’s May 23 Speech
Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies
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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 3
The Fifth Amendment no longer exists as a functioning law of the land
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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2
Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws
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Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 1
We are governed today by an arbitrary legal hodgepodge