An amendment was passed to stop other women from suffering the same fate as a young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones.  Fours days into working for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, she was drugged and then vaginally and anally gangraped by her co-workers.  When she reported the incident to her employers, they imprisoned her in a crate with armed guards ( Read more... )

I swear, Dick Cheney is somewhere between a Sith Lord and a Batman villain.  Darth Sidious meets the Penguin - and not the campy, Burgess Meredith '60s Penguin.  The creepy Danny DeVito, Tim Burton one.