The police have arrested and intruded upon media freedom in America. It happens quite often, and ironically, it is mostly ignored by the media at large. In a case in Philadelphia at an anti-military recruiting protest in 2008, a reporter was singled out for arrest, after the...
If you are a medical marijuana patient with a legal prescription, should you have to suffer harassment and intimidation that other valid prescription holders for other prescribed drugs, never do? Unfortunately, this happens all too often. The federal government interferes in...
A claim made about America's vast prison population is that such is the price for having "a free society." Of course that is nonsense. Netherlands has a free society, and it has one tenth America's incarceration rate. The real reason for America having the world's...
Are we surprised or not? Frankly I'm not sure. Naive or not, I tend to see the good and the innocent in people unless I hear factually, or see otherwise. I guess the opening photograph tells her story...
Those areas being, those considered with higher than normal crime rates. In Cincinnati it was illegal,before a court ruling, to be in certain areas of the city even if only arrested. Even if the arrest did not meet the standards of probable cause, which is required for an...
Should ex-teacher Roger Payne have lost his job? What happened to Mr. Payne is that he befriended a former student who is now an adult. That ex-student's brother broke into the ex-teacher's house and stole a sum of money and some marijuana. Mr Payne (a teacher in...
Here is a winner for the audacity award. A citizen named Matthew Stewart growing marijuana for personal medical reasons in Utah, has police break into his house after a knock, and a cop unfortunately is shot and killed by him. This is not the first time that someone has been...
If you follow the news, you have likely stumbled upon the recent national news about of the outrageous amount of psychiatric drugging of foster children. The US General Accounting Office did a two-year investigation of the drugging of foster children (those with no parents...
No one has ever seen the real Santa Claus. Of course, around Christmas, there are as many Santa Clauses as there are shopping malls in the country. But they all are copies of the same myth. Interestingly enough, that sounds very much like Mister Right,...
There are many people in the religious right who had lived, before they supposedly found their deity, a screwed up life. They were alcoholics. They were on drugs. Cocaine, heroin etc. They were depressed and suicidal. Well, once they find religion they judge gays as...
Have you ever had the desire or even felt the utter necessity to change parts of what you are to please someone? Have you ever wondered whether he or she would love you more or finally see you, if you were to change your attitude, parts of your physical appearance, or...
Washington, DC - A Congressional panel that’s searching for ways to save the crumbling US Postal Service has recommended that the agency increase its profits by becoming the nation’s narcotics distribution...
Every time I hear doctors affirm that depression is a brain disease that they can easily treat thanks to loads of anti-depressors, it truly frightens me. Put yourself in the shoes of an individual who has been feeling down for a while, and who is being told that he or...
There is a way to solve America's gang problem once and for all. This solution is twofold:(1) Legalize guns in America's cities;(2) Legalize drugs and prostitution.Because the laws in many cities forbid law-abiding citizens from having guns, the only people who...
The Makers of Chinooks and Ospreys This isn’t good news. I hope that Boeing and the authorities purge their employment of these lawbreakers. Workers should lose their security clearances and be banned from...