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• A House Divided Still

  

  By Alan Bean Stephen Spielberg’s “Lincoln” pulled in $34 million over the Thanksgiving weekend, third best behind the new Twilight and James Bond movies. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Mishandling of the Petraeus Case Raises Profound Concerns

  

  FBI agent Frederick W. HumphriesBy Alan BeanCivil libertarians are expressing grave concerns about central aspects of the unfolding scandal involving General... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 MEDIA, SOCIETY

• Osler: Pardon People, Not Turkeys

  

  Ramsey Muniz is a seventy year-old man who walks painfully with the assistance of a cane.   He once ran for Governor of Texas; now he is housed in a federal... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 SOCIETY

• A Latino Christian Responds to Al Mohler

  

  Al Mohler is rapidly becoming the voice of conservative evangelicalism, but he doesn’t speak for all evangelicals.  Like me, Miguel De La Torre is a guest... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Don’t Buy the Hype; Immigration Reform Will Be a Hard Sell in Washington

  

  By Alan Bean A week ago, I asked “Can the Republicans Romance Latinos?”  My conclusion was negative.  Immigration reform will require strong bipartisan support... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Normal Republicans Have Always Favored Immigration Reform

  

  Although you would never know it from watching television during the past five years, Republican report for comprehensive immigration was strong before the Tea... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 SOCIETY

• The Military Scandal Nobody Wants to Talk About

  

  By Alan Bean As I write, America is mesmerized by the sins of General David Petraeus, the man who reportedly turned around the Iraq fiasco. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 SOCIETY

• The Conservative War on Prisons: How an Unlikely Coalition of Evangelicals and...

  

  By Alan Bean I heartily commend this well-crafted article on the unlikely evangelical-libertarian coalition that created the Right on Crime movement. David Daga... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 SOCIETY

• The Southern Strategy Breathes Its Last

  

  Melinda Henneberger’s analysis is a strong version of the standard take-away analysis coming out of this week’s election. You can still win big by appealing... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Now, This is Encouraging . . .

  

  By Alan Bean An exit poll conducted for the Associated Press contains this surprising result: Only 3 in 10 voters said that most illegal immigrants working in... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 SOCIETY

• I Said ‘amen’ to This

  

  “… the spirit that has lifted this country from the depths of despair to the great heights of hope, the belief that while each of us will pursue our own... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Can Republicans Romance Latinos?

  

  By Alan Bean Like many of you, I switched to a different network on election night whenever a commercial came along (I hate commercials as much as I hate... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Why White People Like Republicans

  

  By Alan Bean The American electorate is more racially divided in 2012 than at any time in the recent memory. This encourages the simple conclusion that white... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Talking Politics in Church

  

  By Alan Bean When four year-old Abigail Evans burst into tears for no apparent reason, her mother asked what was making her so sad. “I’m tired of Bronco Bama an... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Crossing Lines to Fight Mandatory Minimums

  

  It is extremely encouraging to see progressive, libertarian, and evangelical organizations agreeing on the need for sentencing reform. Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Why Smart Politicians Talk Gibberish

  

  By Alan Bean In a surprising eleventh-hour move, Michael Bloomberg has endorsed Barack Obama. This doesn’t mean the New York mayor is happy with the... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Do DREAM Kids Have a Right to an Education?

  

  There has been a lot of press recently about the plight of illegal immigrants, though most of the coverage on Friends of Justice has centered on basic human... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Work Visas and the New Indentured Servitude

  

  Opportunity in America is often conditioned on a number of outside factors — race, educational achievements, or, as today’s article discusses, citizenship... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Task Force to Host Historic Restorative Justice Conference at Harvard Law School

  

  By Pierre R. Berastain Over the past year, the Massachusetts Restorative Justice Task Force has prepared to convene a daylong restorative justice summit at... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Abortion and White Evangelicals

  

  By Alan Bean An article in the Guardian, a British paper, discusses the challenges the rising tide of Latino voters in the United States poses for the Republica... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 SOCIETY