Far right-wing political commentator, Jesse Lee Peterson, spoke on the rights of women. Sort of. He was a board member of the California branch of the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson's group, by the way. Well, this is what he said about women and voting:"Women cannot...
Friends of Obert are pleased to announce the petition for Obert Madondo’s ongoing crime Bill C10 hunger strike. Hosted on Change.org, the petition is titled: PM Harper, Parliament of Canada: Fulfill Obert’s Bill C10 hunger strike demands NOW! Your support is...
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Women in the U.S. make about 78 of what men make in society. When it comes to comparing union women workers v. union male workers, that difference is cut to about 88%. This isn't surprising. Unions, though imperfect, have done a good job in supporting well paying jobs for...
Dogs are considered by the courts, as proof of probable cause, in drug cases. But, why? The fact is, it is often hit or miss with dogs sniffing for drugs. Their police handlers, intentional or not, can affect how often a dog gives a false positive for drugs in a car, or other...
PRESS RELEASE OTTAWA, April 13, 2012 - Today is Day 31 of my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new draconian crime law, deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly crime Bill C10. I’m an Occupy...
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Today is Day 28 of my ongoing indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper's universally-condemned and cruel new crime law, deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”. I’m an Ottawa-based Occupy activist and progressive...
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Thoughts on a variety of issues: I. U.S. Rep. Steven King, a Republican from Ohio, believes that we should not have any laws protecting gays from discrimination, becase they can hide their sexual orientation. So, according to King's logic, it is O.K. to discriminate based...
A judge in New Hamsphire, Edward Burke, lies to police and states that a citizen named Ademo Freeman, who was asking him questions in a courthouse that the judge obviously didn't like, threatened him. I didn't have to watch the video more than once to know it was...
Republicans and non-libertarian conservatives often don't like the fact that people can divorce. Some on the far religious rightwing, want to restrict the ability to divorce as much as possible, even ban it. If women are abused and battered, well, to them that is not as...
The conservatives on the Internet and elsewhere are conmen and lunatics who spin paranoias and fictions in order to keep people from noticing their deceptions. When I suggested that young violent offenders should be drafted into the military, a lunatic conservative...
Sarah Palin spent an interview attacking President Obama. Which is of course her perfect right. She called him a man of "radicalism" and "not a man of valor". Again her right. But when the Obama campaign ran an ad countering her comments, she and her defenders engaged in a...
DISGRUNTLED East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer has defected from the Conservative Party to UKIP after becoming disillusioned with David Cameron. Mr Helmer, who has been a Conservative MEP since 1999, has cited...
It is getting harder and harder to find Democratic party politicans who don't support marriage equality for gays and lesbians in the U.S. But there is no guarantee that the Democratic party will have in its' platform this year, a statement in support of marriage equality....
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the U.S. Supreme Court, when asked if Egypt should get a Constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution stated: "You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War...
Many conservative leaders have been attacking Julian Assange, including threatening to murder him. This is entirely inconsistent with what conservatives have been saying for decades about defending the taxpayer and about holding to scrutiny the government that is supposed to...