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Civil Disobedience

By Richard L. Connor and CQ Guest Columnist
Posted August 20, 2009 at 12:00am

“Civil Disobedience.”
Mohandas Gandhi
Sen. Joseph McCarthy,
current town meetings,
Sen. Arlen Specter,
Richard L. Connor is CEO of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Publishing Co. and MaineToday Media, owner of newspapers in Portland, Augusta and Waterville, Maine. A newspaperman for 40 years, he has served on two Pulitzer Prize for Journalism nominating committees.

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