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Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?

Adam Hosein Boston Review
The ban raises a fundamental moral question that has recurred throughout U.S. history: what rights, if any, do people considered outsiders have?

The Saintly Dr. O'Leary

Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly
During the contentious 1983 mining strike in Morenci, a part-Irish, part-Yaqui man stood up for the little guy,

2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump's Latest Travel Ban

ALEXANDER BURNS The New York Times
But in a pointed decision that repeatedly invoked Mr. Trump’s public comments, Judge Derrick K. Watson, of Federal District Court in Honolulu, wrote that a “reasonable, objective observer” would view even the new order as “issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion, in spite of its stated, religiously neutral purpose.”

Neil Gorsuch Helped Defend Bush Torture Policies

Charlie Savage The New York Times
After visiting Guantanamo, Judge Gorsuch offered the prison operation commander a glowing review. "Being able to see first hand all that you have managed to accomplish with such a difficult and sensitive mission makes my job of helping explain and defend it before the courts all the easier.”

A Rare Success Against Alzheimer's

Miia Kivipelto, Krister Håkansson Scientific American
A gold-standard clinical trial provides evidence that diet, exercise and an active social life can help prevent cognitive decline

Friday Nite Videos -- March 17, 2016

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'St Patrick Was an Immigrant': Message to Donald Trump. Tickling Giants | Movie. John Oliver | American Health Care Act. Colbert | A Team of Experts Get Started on Trump's Wall. Trump's Cruel Budget Caps off Bad Week.

The Actor and the Anarchist

Pauline Murphy Morning Star
When Irish left-wing labor leader James Larkin arrived in the United States he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) and the Socialist Party. A supporter of the Bolshevik Revolution, Larkin was arrested during the 1919 Red Scare and sentenced to hard labor at Sing Sing. There he was visited by Charlie Chaplin who described the prison as "grimly medieval," and wondered "what fiendish brain could conceive of building such horrors."

Trump's Race-Baiting Bromance with Andrew Jackson

Adele M. Stan The American Prospect
Jackson is regarded as the first populist president; his purported connection to the ordinary people from which he sprang is the stuff of legend. Hailed as an economic populist for having opposed the creation of a centralized bank, instead he favored local banks. And it was local banks that backed Jackson and his friends, who all reaped rewards from the Indian removal policy.