Right-Wingers Gone Wild

Oklahoma's new "Save Our State" amendment declaring that courts cannot consider international or Islamic law - dubbed by one expert "an answer in search of a problem" - has in fact run into problems . Last week, the head of a Muslim group filed a lawsuit against it. Today, a federal judge issued a restraining order against it. Now it turns out the law may unwittingly ban courts from referencing the 10 Commandments, at the heart of much of U.S law and way popular in Oklahoma. "Many of us who understand the law are scratching our heads this morning, laughing so we don't cry." - law professor Rick Tepker

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Dear American Jews, The Town Is Burning

With the U.N. General Assembly opening, Ha'aretz ' Gideon Levy calls on U.S. Jews to use their political power to protest Israel's occupation, atrocities and Gaza assault that have rendered it "a country... despised." If you love Israel, he charges, criticize it. "Your beloved Israel is addicted. It is addicted to occupation and aggression, and someone has to wean it from these addictions. Like any other junkie, it is incapable of helping itself. Thus the job falls to you."

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