Children of lesbian couples do better than those of non-gays

Opponents of marriage equality often say that marriage should be reserved for what the churches say it is. They say it is a religious word. Well, marriage as recognized by the government is civil in nature. If not, than atheists might be banned from marrying, by those on the...

How Stop/Frisk in New York City targets blacks

A federal judge has allowed (not ruled but just allowed) a court case to proceed on the clearly unconstitutional practice of stop/frisk in New York City. Technically stop/frisk are two different things. Stop supposedly needs only reasonable suspicion. The frisk part requires...

Chicago P.D. draws guns on journalists

This is disturbing story out of Chicago. It seems a number of young journalists covering the anti-NATO protests in Chicago were targeted for harassment by the Chicago Police Department. Batteries and external hard drives of theirs were smashed and the cell phone of one...

How civil asset forfeiture allows police to take your money

Civil asset forfeiture is where the government can take your property, even if they never convicted you of an offense. It's a blatant violation of due process. But, we as Americans allow government to get away with it. Why? Well, part of the problem are the anti-drug zealots....

Why were rights of anti-NATO protestors violated by Chicago P.D.?

This is video of four Chicago cops interrogating the political activies a few men who were stopped for turning into a driveway to turn around. Yes, they were stopped for that. Since these men were later arrested for alleged terrorism in a raid with a warrant not even signed...

The life and times of George Carlin

I just finished George Carlin's book, Last Words. It's different than anything else he wrote, because it's his autobiography. Interesting and amusing, of course. Well, when Carlin was younger he knew the comedian and social critic, Lenny Bruce. Bruce was before my time, but...

Bodies dumped in Drug War in Mexico and hypocrisy

In the city of Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico, 35 dead bodies were dumped on a street. Some had their hands tied and some were tortured to death. Do I have to even ask if the first thing that came to your mind, this was because of drug violence? How many nanoseconds after...

The war by the police on your right to film, continues

Ian Van Kuyk is a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. I have been to Philadelphia a couple of times, it is a beautiful city. He, along with his girlfriend were arrested on March 14, 2012. Heinous crime, they committed? Not really, they were arrested because he...

Pro-drug reformer prosecuted for activism?

In New Hampshire in January of 2008, a police officer tried to get talk show host Ian Bernard charged with a criminal offense for the host's promotion of a protest against anti-marijuana laws. A pro-marijuana reformer, James Carroll, held a quanity of marijuana out in the...

President Obama comes out in support of same sex marriage

Lots of news in the gay marriage front. Yes, in North Carolina, the anti-marriage equality folks won with 61% of the vote. But, remember, in Wisconsin in 2006 the same kind of anti-gay actvists got 59% of the vote. That means in six short years North Carolina has become as...

Why is the Christian right-wing opposing a mosque in Brookfield?

In Brookfield, WI, there is opposition to the building of an Islamic mosque. Why? Do people really think that elderly Muslim women are going to be plotting terrorism against the U.S. Bank building? I am a humanist and I am not going to defend Islam as the so called religion...

North Carolina NAACP fights back against anti-gay/ anti-marriage

I wish I could cast a ballot today in the Tarheal state of North Carolina, against anti-gay discrimination in that state. But alas, being from Wisconsin, I can only hope it fails. Amendment 1 would ban same sex marriages in that state by changing that state's constitution....