What country is this? Mom Sentenced to Jail For Seeking a Better Education...
And racism is dead? An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelly...
View ArticleMormon women calls for loving others, opposes church on gay marriage
I put this video on MormonsforMarriage.com during the Prop 8 debate. At the time, speaking out via this video threatened my temple recommend and calling, and I chose to take it down to protect my...
View ArticleFisk: Bahrain protesters —‘They didn’t run away’
Robert Fisk reports on the protests and the massacres in Bahrain: ‘They didn’t run away. They faced the bullets head-on’ After Egypt’s revolution, the people have lost their fear By Robert Fisk...
View ArticleLondon riots commentary
When riots like those in London occur, it is so hard for people to simultaneously try and understand the social causes without confusing understanding with support for the violence. Here the former...
View ArticleAre the rich less empathic?
Another set of studies provides evidence that the wealthy among us have less empathy for others than the less well off. “We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable,...
View ArticleCriminal charges sought against MA woman who filmed brutal police beating
Springfield, MA police don’t want you to see this video. A Springfield police officer has filed n application for a criminal complaint against the woman who filmed his buddy’s brutality. Because, in...
View ArticleTea Partiers were right wing social conservatives years ago
The researchers David E. Campbell of Notre Dame and Robert D. Putnam of Harvard started interviewing a cohort of 3,000 Americans in 2006. Using this longitudinal data set, they explore the attitudes of...
View ArticleThe British riots apparently about poverty after all
Jack Shalom calls to my attention this Guardian analysis of those arrested during the recent British riots. It demonstrates that those arrested where overwhelmingly from poor or getting poorer...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights: Members of Bahraini royal family beating &...
As Obama and US allies condemn the murderous regime in Syria and bomb that in Libya, they are largely silent on the horrors being perpetrated by US allies Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in repressing the...
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