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Eric Beckman

Voter ID laws in all 50 states - in 1 map - 0 views

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    Map shows the state of voters ID laws across the states with links to a larger version of the map and two different briefings on the issue
Eric Beckman

UFO Sightings Are More Common Than Voter Fraud | Mother Jones - 0 views

  • The GOP says election fraud is rampant. A close look at the numbers shows there's no evidence of that.
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    This page contains graphs, maps, and links to articles.  From the progressive magazine Mother Jones, the data and links are skeptical of laws that restrict voting
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Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

  • On January 16, the Ukrainian government, headed by President Yanukovych, tried to put an end to Ukrainian civil societ
  • But a maidan now means in Ukrainian what the Greek word agora means in English: not just a marketplace where people happen to meet, but a place where they deliberately meet, precisely in order to deliberate, to speak, and to create a political society
  • protests, until then entirely peaceful, became violent. Yanukovych lost support
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  • Yanukovych rescinded most of the dictatorship laws, lawless violence by the regime, which started in November, continued into February
  • h the hope that Ukraine could one day join the European Union, an aspiration that for many Ukrainians means something like the rule of law, the absence of fear, the end of corruption, the social welfare state, and free markets without intimidatio
  • a rival project, based in Moscow, called the Eurasian Union.
  • Putin wants Ukraine in his Eurasian Union, which means that Ukraine must be authoritarian, which means that the Maidan must be crushed.
  • dictatorship laws of January 16 were obviously based on Russian models
  • The Eurasian Union is the enemy of the European Union, not just in strategy but in ideology.
  • Rather than rejecting totalitarian ideologies, Eurasianism calls upon politicians of the twenty-first century to draw what is useful from both fascism and Stalinism.
  • taken Putin’s campaign against gay rights and transformed it into a weapon against European integration
  • Apart from the Jews, whose suffering was by far the worst, the main victims of Nazi policies were not Russians but Ukrainians and Belarusians.
  • After Stalin’s death communism took on a more and more ethnic coloration, with people who wished to revive its glories claiming that its problem was that it had been spoiled by Jews. The ethnic purification of the communist legacy is precisely the logic of National Bolshevism, which is the foundational ideology of Eurasianism today.
  • Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia. To set its own course, Ukraine needs normal public debate, the restoration of parliamentary democracy, and workable relations with all of its neighbors.
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    Written just before the crisis in Ukraine really blew up, this article by a leading academic 
Eric Beckman

Exit Polls 1972-2008 - 0 views

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    Great data breaking down voters by party, race, sex, etc.
Eric Beckman

Annenberg Classroom - All Videos - 0 views

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    Several videos feature Supreme Court Justices discussing constitutional issues.
Eric Beckman

The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Authored by center-left blogger Kevin Drum
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Teachers | iCivics - 0 views

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    The teachers homepage at iCivics.org lists all of the lessons, webquests, and games for different subjects. Lots of good looking resources.
Eric Beckman

The Crimescene Game - 0 views

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    Branching game where students choose questions to ask of an eye-witness to a bank robbery. Text-voice animation.
Eric Beckman

Cases | www.streetlaw.org - 0 views

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    Case studies and materials for students and teachers on Landmark Cases
Eric Beckman

newsmap - 0 views

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    News story collector. Most covered stories are the largest on the page.
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