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I wanted to question Petreus about #39;successes #39; in Iraq, but got arrested - Ray McGovern
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern will not let his First Amendment rights be infringed upon by the New York City Police Department or any other organization, the prominent anti-war activist told...

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George Mason University

George Mason Universitys STEAM Table forum will present three theatrical works in February, March and April, relating science and the arts, as part of a season of innovation.

A few years ago, Daniel Beck, a member of the board of the now defunct Theater of the First Amendment at George Mason University, mentioned a pressing and growing problem that involved both the arts and sciences.

Beck, who works for Boeings Office of Defense, Space & Security, worried out loud to fellow board members about the retirements of what he called the creative working class.

According to Beck, many of the younger Boeing employees, although highly skilled and knowledgeable in their various fields, were far too specialized. Unlike their older, now retiring counterparts, they lacked exposure to the liberal arts, which combined with the sciences and math seems to engender more creative, often out-of-the-box thinking.

Among those actively listening were Kevin Murray, program manager for and faculty member of GMUs School of Theater as well as an actor, and Rick Davis, executive director of GMUs Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas and former co-artistic director of The Theater of the First Amendment.

Also a playwright, Beck, Murray said, is someone who truly gets it, gets the symbiotic connection between the arts and sciences and the need to reintegrate them in education.

Murray and Davis not only heard Becks concerns but also acted on them, thanks in part to a generous gift from Boeing dedicated to exploring ways to significantly include the Arts in educations growing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) movement, turning it into STEAM.

One of their first steps was to establish an ongoing The STEAM Table forum (whimsy intended in naming). Sponsored in addition by GMUs College of Visual and Performing Arts, a goal of the STEAM Table, which has a website (www.steamtable.org) and newsletter, is to bring together individuals and organizations that are engaged in varied aspects of the arts and sciences to share their thinking.

For Davis, 57, who also teaches theater, directs and acts, the STEAM movement is not looking backward but a sorely needed return to something that worked better than todays too frequent demand to teach to the test.

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The First Amendment Bubble National Constitution Center
The growth of the Internet has made it ever harder to distinguish public from private, news from titillation, and journalists from provocateurs. Author Amy Gajda examines media today and its...

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Breaking Windows and Burning Protesters
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Story highlights Supreme Court term opened by deflecting big cases But that quickly as the Court is poised to decide major issues

How things have changed.

By November, the Court accepted yet another challenge to the Affordable Care Actthe signature legislative achievement of the Obama administration. In a matter of weeks, the justices heard arguments concerning pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and the First Amendment implications of threats made on Facebook.

In January, they decided to take up a challenge to gay marriage, and for good measure, also agreed to hear a case regarding Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol.

"The term went from being one of the more uneventful terms in recent years to potentially one of the biggest ones in a generation" says Supreme Court expert Amy Howe who is the Editor of Scotusblog.com.

Here's a glimpse of some of what has been decided, what has been heard and what is to come:

WHAT HAS BEEN DECIDED

Religious freedom in prison: A unanimous Court ruled in favor of the religious freedom claims of Gregory Holt, an Arkansas inmate who wanted to grow a beard in accordance with his Muslim faith, but was blocked by the Department of Corrections' policy that forbid beards except for diagnosed dermatological problems. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion holding that the prison policy violated a federal law designed to protect the religious exercise of prisoners. The Becket Fund for Religious Freedom proclaimed the decision a "huge win for religious freedom" for all Americans. But in a very brief concurring opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, distanced the case from last year's Hobby Lobby decision.

WHAT HAS BEEN HEARD

Separation of powers: A 12 year old American boy, born in Jerusalem, is caught in the middle of a significant dispute between Congress and the executive branch. The disagreement began in 2002 when the parents of Menachem Zivotofsky sought to have "Israel" recorded in his passport as the place of his birth pursuant to a federal law passed in 2002. Sounds simple right? Not according to the State Department, which refuses to implement the law. The executive branch says that because Israeli and Palestinian leaders have long been engaged in a dispute over the status of Jerusalem, it avoids any official act that might be perceived as taking sides. The current policy is to list "Jerusalem" as the place of birth instead of "Israel." The Zivotofskys seek to compel the State Department to follow the law. They argue that Congress has broad power over passports, and that this case is about the identify of a passport holder. A lower court disagreed holding that the law "impermissibly intrudes" on the president's authority to decide whether and on what terms to recognize foreign nations.

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