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You've probably come across this already in whatever daily news you choose to read.  So, I don't feel the need to post a link here.  This case will go down in our nation's history.  What it will go down as will vary by the person.  Me?  I think justice was shot and killed with this verdict, just like Trayvon ( Read more... )

As an incurable bleeding-heart, I’m always on the lookout for someone suffering, and that includes people with whom I disagree. The sight of human pain should cause us all to put aside our differences. Megyn Kelly is suffering right here, on national television.She’s thrown this Fox News Alert about presumably explosive remarks from Attorney ( Read more... )

Recently conservatives and others were upset at the restrictions of liberty in NYC, which banned drink sizes over a certain amount, most arguing that just because government can do a thing, does not mean they should do a thing.

Last week the North Dakota House passed their stringent "fetal personhood" amendment with a 57-35 vote, which, when ( Read more... )

Ukraine postpones summit after 13 EU countries pull out

The diplomatic clouds are gathering over Ukraine these days because of the treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko while in prison. But the cancellation of this summit is just a minor part of the pain Ukraine is about to endure, and certainly the lesser among several sources of trouble. There could be ( Read more... )

So after 400+ comments I'm back for more, things like "Human rights" and "moral imperative" get thrown around an awful lot but nobody really seems to agree on what such things actually entail so with that in mind I ask...

What exactly are we all entitled to?I freely admit that my own answer is bleaker than most. In my mind anything beyond ( Read more... )

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/st-petersburg-gay-communities-living-in-fear-7604065.html
http://en.ria.ru/society/20120402/172554599.html

Following the example of St. Petersburg, now other big Russian cities are preparing to adopt a new law that is set to impose fines for those who openly discuss homosexuality, let alone those who ( Read more... )

The Libyan rebel forces who ousted Gaddafi are responsible for numerous war crimes and human rights abuses, this was the "sensational" conclusion of a report made by the expert commission appointed by the UN, published by AP earlier this month. The report was done under the chairmanship of Philippe Kirsch, a Canadian judge, and it investigated the ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/26/world/meast/israel-human-rights/index.html

Israel has severed ties with the UN Human Rights Council on grounds of butthurt about being called out on breaking particular statues of international law it shamelessly breaks, but a particular subset of international law that can never seriously be enforced. Otherwise, to use ( Read more... )

Via Raw Story

Colin Heaton, 1/16/12 speaking to the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention, on how to finance building a secure wall between Mexico and the United States: You take all these incarcerated illegal aliens, even some of the guys who are US citizens in the prison system who make about 27 cents a day doing ridiculous work, kick ( Read more... )