North Carolina voters approve anti-marriage equality amendment, until they learn what it does
Every state but one in the South has banned marriage equality by outlawing unions between two people of the same sex. In fact, they all had an amendment to their state constitutions barring such marriages by 2008. The hold-out is North Carolina.
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Indefinite detention: Can we ask how the United States got here?
Bipartisan BFFs in enabling indefinite detention: Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin.
(Office of Senator Patrick Leahy/Wikicommons)
There has certainly been a lot of sturm und drang surrounding the indefinite detention provisions codified into law in t...
Sending some hope
(All photos courtesy of Just Detention International)
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Please send a message of hope to survivors of sexual assault who are usually forgotten by those of us who are not be...
Who are we?
California's death chamber (Wikimedia Commons)
By bizarre historical coincidence, on the same day that Georgia executed Troy Davis for a murder he almost certainly did not commit, Texas executed Lawerence Russell Brewer for a murder he certainly did....
Libya Says It Will Free Missing New York Times Journalists Today
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NATO to Libya: What Seems to Be the Problem?
Filed under: Humor, Foreign Policy, Chaos Theory, Middle East, Human RightsNext thing you know they'll be asking for human rights. Talk about a can of worms! Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Florida Homeless Advocates Claim 1st Amendment Right to Meet, Eat in Park
Filed under: Supreme Court, Human RightsAn Orlando city ordinance restricting how often homeless people can be given free meals in parks is being challenged in federal court. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&...
Julian Assange and Bradley Manning: A Tale of Two Arrests
Filed under: National Security, Woman Up, International, United Kingdom, WikiLeaks, Human RightsThe WikiLeaks scandal has entwined two men who seem like bookends to the same story. But Assange is on house arrest and has book and film deals, while Manni...
