Word: alabamas
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When the court of the Judiciary in Alabama tossed state supreme court Chief Justice Roy Moore out of office last week over his refusal to remove the Ten Commandments from his courthouse, you had to wonder whether his fondest wish had been granted. After all, if his goal were simply to reaffirm the spiritual foundations of the law, he could have done that the way countless other judges and lawmakers have been doing it for decades. Sessions of Congress open with prayer, the Attorney General holds prayer meetings each morning in his office, the Supreme Court routinely asks that...
...NPR’s “Morning Edition” and is the author of several books on the civil rights movement, was in town to speak at the Kennedy Library last night—40 years after George Wallace stood in the door of the University of Alabama to block its desegregation...
...wildfires has hardly ended the risk to U.S. forests. Years of drought and insect epidemics have also left millions of dead and dying trees across the Southeast. An infestation of the southern pine beetle that began in 1999 has killed a million acres of pine trees from Virginia to Alabama. Those dead trees--most either still standing or cut down and left to decay--are a potential tinderbox. A wetter, more humid climate makes a California-size conflagration unlikely. Still, there are dangers...
...happens every Friday and Saturday night, in college hockey rinks from Alabama to Alaska...
...that if the woman visits a clinic where abortions are performed, the doctor clearly has a financial interest in her choice: if she chooses to carry, he makes no money, but if she aborts, the clinic earns hundreds or thousands of dollars. Joy Davis, a former abortion provider in Alabama, said of her experience, “A very short time after working there, I realized one thing: we were not there to help women. We were a business—a money-making organization.” Carol Everett, who worked at abortion clinics in Texas, described the situation...