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Time Magazine Reporter Tweets He Cannot Wait to Defend Drone Strike on Julian Assange 18 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
Submitted by Darren Smith, Guest Blogger In what became a highly charged row, Time Magazine Reporter Michael Grunwald posted on twitter “I can’t wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes...
I, Too, Am America: The Poetry of Langston Hughes 18 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger Recently, we have had some interesting—and at times contentious—discussions about race, racism, and bigotry in this country on this blog. We’ve talked abou...
Resident or Inmate? Mayor Bloomberg Proposes Requirement to Fingerprint Those Residing in NYC Public Housing 18 Aug 2013 | 08:28 am
Submitted by Darren Smith, Guest Blogger According to CBS New York, New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg desires to reduce crime among the more than half million residents of the city’s housing distric...
Jim Crow’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 17 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Although Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) does not believe “there is any particular evidence of polls barring African Americans from voting,” there is plenty...
Getting Down Is The Hard Part 17 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Laddy, a border collie, had been missing for several days when some whimpering caused a neighbor to, counterintuitively, look up. After being rescued, L...
Bigotry Denialism 17 Aug 2013 | 09:28 am
Submitted By: Mike Spindell, Guest Blogger Whenever the subject of bigotry gets touched upon in this blog we see certain readers who will not only disagree with the premise that bigotry exists, but w...
Report: NSA Violated Privacy Rules “Thousands of Times” Under Warrantless Surveillance Program 16 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
While President Obama continues to tell the public that there is no widespread domestic surveillance program and denies the violation of privacy rights, another report again contradicts those statemen...
Kansas Prisoner Released After DNA Evidence Clears Him Of Rape . . . Judge Then Fires Clerk Who Told Prisoner How To Seek Such Testing 16 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
There is an interesting case out of Kansas that first aired late July. Kansas Judge David Byrn (left) was the presiding judge in the case of Robert Nelson, 49, who was sentenced to 70 years for a rap...
Video: Sheriff Deputies Raid Home To Enforce A Civil Fine 16 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
This video was posted by a family who says that they were terrified when Georgia DeKalb Sheriff deputies came to their home around 1:30 am and virtually tore down their door. It turns out that this is...
Round Up The Rodeo Clowns: NAACP Official Calls For Rodeo Employees To Be Prosecuted For Hate Crime 16 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
There was a national controversy created recently when a rodeo clown, Tuffy Gessling, put together an act involving a President Barack Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair. The announcer reportedly c...
