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Constitutional Law

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    NATO 3: Accused Terrorist Jared Chase Rapped About Guns, Drugs, and "Bitch-Ass Cops"

    Before his arrest for alleged terrorism in Chicago, the NATO 3's Jared Chase was a talented aspiring rapper, DJ, and sound engineer who claimed affiliation with a bevvy of record labels around the U.S., including Miami's own Slip-N-Slide Records.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Boring Moderate Bill Nelson's Stance on Gay Marriage is Vaguely Boring and Moderate

    There are worse things for politicians to be than boring moderates, sure, but Bill Nelson is a boring moderate through and through. So, it's really no surprise that his stance on gay marriage is predictably off in some vague, boring, moderate middle land.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Strip Club Company Sues North Bay Village Over Their First Amendment Right to Naked Dancing

    Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2012

    Miami Police: Jury Finds a "Policy" of Abuse

    Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>

  • News

    April 5, 2012

    Trayvon Martin's Legacy: Maybe Blacks Will Start Voting

    Isle of Dreams, a company that hopes to put a strip club in North Bay Village, just wants to pay some girls to shake their tatas, but the city keeps cock-blocking them at every turn. So now the company has filed a lawsuit against North Bay Village, and claims the city is infringing on their First Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Marco Rubio Hates Disco Music, Says Civil Rights Movement Was Part of "A Scary Time"

    Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>

  • News

    March 29, 2012

    Federal Trayvon Martin probe is just a coverup

    Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    The Federal Investigation Into Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Bound To Fail

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke scoffs at the Justice Department's investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin.Ever since I heard the 911 tapes of 17- ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 24, 2011

    Faith Ringgold's 1960s paintings at Miami Art Museum through January 1

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke scoffs at the Justice Department's investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin.Ever since I heard the 911 tapes of 17- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Bill Clinton Calls Rick Scott's Felon Disfranchisement Rules Racist and Politically Motivated

    Not very many people in Florida like Governor Rick Scott, so we really didn't expect former democratic President Bill Clinton to like the guy much either. While speaking at a conference for young progressive activists in D.C. today, Clinton called out Scott's effort to strip voting rights from convi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Florida Senate Passes First Round of Anti-Abortion Bills

    ​The major issue of the 2010 election was the economy, and Florida voters chose to further entrench Republican power in Tallahassee. Of course, you can't put a bunch of Republicans in a legislative chamber and not expect them to pass a bunch of anti-abortion, anti-woman legislation. It's just what ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2011

    ACLU Chief Howard Simon Recalls MLK and Bloody Sunday

    Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

    Photo by Jacob KatelHoward Simon​American Civil Liberties executive director Howard Simon took part in the last century's most significant freedom march with Dr. Martin Luther King. Then he was part of lawsuits that indicated our own government might have played a role in one of the civil rights m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Florida Judge Worried Obama Might Make Us All Buy Broccoli

    via​A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Jim Morrison Pardon Coming This Morning, But Local Rockers Ask Crist Not To Stop There (Update: It's Official)

    No longer a suspected dong-dangler.​At last, our long national nightmare is over: the long deceased Jim Morrison will no longer have a record for drunkenly dangling his dong at a Miami concert. But while Morrison's pardon -- which should be made official at 9 a.m. -- closes a sordid footnote in ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Koran Burning Cancelled, Pastor Claims Deal with Park51 Imam

    Pastor Terry Jones​The tiny Gainesville, Florida, Dove World Outreach Center ignited an international controversy when they announced plans to burn Korans on the ninth anniversary of September 11. The story stirred the same strong feelings surrounding a planned Muslim community center near Ground ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    MIFF: Interview with Brigitte Berman, Director of Hugh Hefner

    PRNewsFoto/Playboy Enterprises, Inc.​Hugh Hefner is old. He's so old that Hollywood types have started projects based on his legacy. There are the rumors (tweeted by Hefner himself) that Diablo Cody is writing a movie about him. And one of the documentaries at this year's Miami Film Festival is Hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Feds Bust Dade Correctional Institute Guards on Civil Rights Violations

    ​No matter how cynical you've grown about the American justice system -- let's say, from watching a few too many episodes of The Wire -- there are still stories coming out of Miami's prison system that will make your jaw drop. Today, through a federal indictment, comes a tale of casual civil right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Timoney Loses, Freedom Wins, Taxpayers Pay

    Miami Police Chief John Timoney screwed up, and we taxpayers are just gonna keep paying and paying.Back in November 2003, the City of Miami shut down some protests against a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting being held here. The cops beat some protesters and illegally jailed others. Jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Amazing, Someone is Actually Protesting The Crist Wedding

    Riptide works on a self imposed quota system, and in order to meet our goals we have to make at least one "Charlie Crist is gay" joke a week. So it was only natural when reporting on Charlie Crist's upcoming nuptials to lay it on thick, especially while we were still fuming from the travesty of Amen ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 3, 2008

    God Complex

    The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2008

    Feds Investigate Miami-Dade Jails

    The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Remember Old Jim Crow

    The M Ensemble aims at a moving bio and misses the mark.

  • Calendar

    January 11, 2007

    Still Dreaming

    Celebrate MLK Day by candlelight

  • Culture

    June 22, 2006

    Stage Capsules

    Current shows

  • Culture

    June 15, 2006

    Stage Capsules

    Current shows

  • Culture

    November 17, 2005

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

    When the price of freedom borders on insane

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    High & Mighty

    What do you do when some morons criticize you in a news report? If you're the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, the top federal cop, the answer is easy: You blackball the news reporter

  • Diversions

    May 13, 2004

    BEST OUTDOOR ART

    Greenpeace Human Art Protest

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of December 11, 2003

    Greenpeace Human Art Protest

  • Film

    November 13, 2003

    On Edge

    A local documentary film festival takes on topics not for the timid

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Barred for Life

    The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Pro-Gay Pressure?

    Divisions from within: Allies skirmish over free speech

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of August 29, 2002

    One cop would rather resign than compromise his integrity

  • Music

    August 23, 2001

    Shake

    If it ain't your party, you better fight for your rights

  • News

    April 19, 2001

    Fair Weather Freedom Fighters

    The Latin Grammys got the headlines, but brave and bruised theater director Alberto Sarraín got the honors

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Frank Talk About Free Speech

    Attorney Victor Diaz chats up the ACLU's Howard Simon

  • News

    March 9, 2000

    Riptide

    So that's why it's called copy!

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Speak Your Mind, Lose Your Job

    So that's why it's called copy!

  • News

    April 8, 1999

    A Historic Dip

    Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Saviors of Virginia Key

    Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

  • Calendar

    February 4, 1999

    Night & Day

    February 4 - 10, 1999

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Free to Speak Her Mind

    February 4 - 10, 1999

  • News

    June 1, 1995

    Carmen (Among Others) vs. Carmen (Among Others)

    Hialeah residents Omar and Carmen Corzo sue Councilwoman Carmen Caldwell (among others) for violating their civil rights

  • News

    September 14, 1994

    Lard Corps

    Local black leaders are wondering why the U.S. Justice Department called them together to chew the fat about Guantanamo

  • News

    November 27, 1991

    Stonewalled

    FIU's first gay-rights group finds disciples of Anita Bryant alive and well on campus

  • News

    October 23, 1991

    Letters

    FIU's first gay-rights group finds disciples of Anita Bryant alive and well on campus

  • News

    October 23, 1991

    Chiles Pornography

    Hear ye! Hear ye! The state gets into a righteous - dare we say fundamentalist? - huff

  • News

    September 11, 1991

    Tie Me Up! Tone Me Down!

    Lewd magazine publisher Dugent experiences the ultimate masochistic thrill - a spanking from its neighbors in prim and proper Coral Gables

  • News

    September 11, 1991

    Letters

    Lewd magazine publisher Dugent experiences the ultimate masochistic thrill - a spanking from its neighbors in prim and proper Coral Gables

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