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• Chan Lowe: Florida speeds up the death penalty process

  The Florida Legislature has passed a bill called the “Timely Justice Act,” and has sent it up to Gov. Scott for his signature. This piece of legislation is designed to address the frustrations of law-and-order hawks who believe that the death penalty appeals process is too time-consuming and expensive. It [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Florida Legislature sticks it to the teachers

  The legislators just couldn’t bring themselves to do it. The idea of an across-the-board raise for teachers— union members —stuck in their collective craw. Because the state’s teachers haven’t received a raise in several years, they felt a certain amount of pressure to deliver (particularly from a reelection-happy Rick Scott) [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Tim Tebow dropped from the Jets

  That’s right, I just drew two sports-themed cartoons in a row. You aren’t likely to see that again—not in my lifetime, at least. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Jason Collins comes out

  When the news first broke that Jason Collins—an active NBA player—had announced he was gay, I had to ask some of my more sports-minded colleagues whether the story justified the full-court press the media were giving it. [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Barbara Bush says we've had enough Bushes

  Barbara (or “Bar,” as her husband calls her) Bush is not the wife of one former president and the mother of another because she is a slouch. She’s a savvy woman, strong-willed and well educated. I know how well educated she is because her alma mater, Smith College, happens to [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The immigration debate

  Immigration is an emotional, hot-button issue in our politics, because some people see it as a stand-in for a more abstract concern: the slow erosion of American culture (as they have come to know it) by outsiders. If you are a politician and you have chosen demagoguery as your route [...]
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• Chan Lowe: The Bush Presidential Library

  Barbara Bush, the family matriarch, probably echoed the national sentiment most succinctly in an interview when she said, “We’ve had enough Bushes.” [...]
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• Chan Lowe: FAU conspiracy professor does it again

  Academic freedom is a cherished concept. Educators ought to be given as much latitude as possible to say what they wish in the classroom; each has his or her particular method of instruction. To restrict speech, which is one of the tools they use to impart knowledge, is to shackle [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Diana Wasserman-Rubin pleads guilty

  “Guilty in my best interest.” [...]
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• Chan Lowe: Charlie Crist, the great Democratic hope?

  It’s nice to see that, in spite of my paper’s subscriber pay wall, some of The Lowe Down’s old “friends” have returned to weigh in on my posting about loyal American Muslims being among the victims of the Boston Marathon tragedy. Thank you for proving my point so eloquently through [...]
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