More police abuse videos, to start off 2013

Happy new year, or I hope you had a happy old year, based on if you are reading this in 2013 or 2012. Well, a topic of mine has been police abusing their authority and yes, once again, this will be one of those columns. In this video police in Chicago are writing a guy a...

It's O.K. to change your sex and police abuses once again

A number of different issues today. I. There is a woman who was born a man playing basketball for a small woman's college basketball team. A talk show host asked rhetorically, did she have the right to have this operation to go from a man to a woman. Well, it's her body. The...

Couple arrested for reporting found drugs to the police

The War on Drugs is stupid and stupid cops like to enforce it. Yes, there stupid cops, and they never seem to be fired. A couple in Clayton County Georgia (the Atlanta area) who owned a property were arrested for "tampering with evidence" after reporting to police illegal...

Police take away anti-Romney yardsign from man's lawn

Can the government suppress your speech anytime it wants? I ask this because an Officer Short of the Keene, New Hampshire Police Department, illegally took a Romney campaign sign from a James Walters. The sign, which Walters wrote over to mock Romney, was on his property....

Todd Akin of "legitimate rape" fame, on evolution

Todd Akin, the Missouri Congressman who wants to be the next U.S. Senator from that state and who believes that women who are "legitimately raped" don't get pregnant, has a few thoughts on evolution. Well, very few because it is obvious he has never really thought about it...

Lies about same sex marriage and cross on a football helmet

In a month, state of Washington voters will approve marriage equality for gays and lesbians in that state. Well, Catholic Bishop Joseph Tyson wrote a statement urging Washington Catholics to remember to take marching orders from the Catholic Church. Bishop Tyson wrote about...

Apple computers apple icon banned in Russia because of religion?

Apple Computers is one of the most famous corporations in the world. Unfortunately they have had employed contractors who make their products, who employ sweatshop conditions. Such as in China. Well in Russia the Russian Orthodox Church, which has become a de facto arm of the...

In Brookfield, WI, there is opposition to the building of an Isla

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...

Local right-wing Christian host has play banned at Summerstage

"“Vic Eliason raised a stink. Eliason is an evangelical clergyman in Milwaukee who runs the VCY (Voices of Christian Youth) America Radio Network. He has a show, “Cross Currents,” in Milwaukee, and on August 9, he dedicated his hour-long program to condemning the play...

Police commit arrests to reach quotas and man illegally tased

The police are sometimes wrong. Sometimes often. Police in New York City demanded quotas for NYPD patrol officers. Innocent young men are often arrested for mild conduct, in order to reach quotas. But before being brought before a judge, these arrestees are often released,...

Is there a 3 hour time limit on free speech in Texas?

Is there anything in the First Amendment which only guarantees a right to freedom of speech for three hours or less? See, I bring this up because in Austin, Texas, a protest at the state capital was stopped because there was a three hour time limit on free speech. It was a...

Should women have the right to go topless in America?

Should the government ban, as happens in most places in the U.S., topless women in public? Of course the religious right-wing in the U.S. would oppose any such right by women, because let's face it, they are the anti-sex police. They want to imprison gay men for sex in their...

Public school football coach abuses his authority to win converts

If you have students in the local public school, do you want him or her taken to a local mosque to listen to the Quran by the government? I am guessing probably not. You would probably be mad if some coach, because of his/her Islmaic religious beliefs, thought it was O.K. to...

Man illegally arrested for exercising freedom of speech rights

It disgusts me when the police actively violate the First Amendment rights of individuals, even if I don't agree with a darn thing they believe. For example, anti-abortion protestor Peter D'Attilio of Massachusetts, who I probably won't agree with on pretty much anything....