I have written a number of posts about the draconian laws against sex offenders that make it extremely difficult for many of the offenders to ever be rehabilitated. For example, see this about a teenager in Iowa who was put on the sex offender registry because, at age 16, he had sex with a girl [...]
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Right wingers such as Republican Congress members , “patriots,” and tea partiers have learned that it helps them with their “base” to use the words like “killing” and “killers” and “death.” For instance, they used “baby killer” to refer to abortion providers and, in particular, Bill O’Reilly and many others used “Tiller the Baby Killer” [...]
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Fox News president Roger Ailes, in an interview with Russell Simmons, said that any attempts to connect his network or the tea party to the Gabrielle Giffords shootings are “bullshit.” He thinks that “both sides” are responsible for the hate rhetoric that has pervaded the country since 2000. Nice try, Ailes, but it’s not going [...]
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Most politicians are now talking about how the “heated” political rhetoric needs to be “toned down.” But, of course, not much is expected to change. Does anyone really believe that Sarah Palin will no longer talk about “targeting” someone? Does anyone really believe that tea party supporters will not do something as obscene as screaming [...]
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I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the TV reports yesterday of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting went out of their way to avoid mentioning the political party that she belonged to, at least in the lead-ins to the stories. Was there a conscious effort to try to avoid offending (or exciting) members [...]
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To coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a paper titled Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry. The paper concerns the exploitation of mostly undocumented immigrant women who work in the U.S. food industry and is based upon interviews with 150 women. The women [...]
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Well, this is classy: The Republican website for a Minnesota Senate race posted a video, highlighting the latest reason you should vote for a GOP candidate this election cycle: Republican women are hot; Democrats are dogs. The YouTube clip shows photos of Republican women in flattering glamorized poses (frequently in bikinis), juxtaposed with purposely unflattering– [...]
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It was only last December that the HRC released its “Buy For Equality” report on corporate equality practices, highlighting Target’s 100% rating on LGBTQ rights. But now the gay rights group has issued a clear repudiation of the retail giant, calling on them to seriously reevaluate their donation policies, or lose all support of “fair-minded [...]
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In perhaps the most telling example yet of the consequences of the Taliban’s increasing return to power, a 19-year old woman and a 25-year old man were stoned to death pursuant to Taliban orders. The two were in love. They eloped when the man was unable to persuade family members to allow him to marry [...]
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In May, I wrote about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that the United States would not abandon the women of Afghanistan by allowing President Hamid Karzai to make any deals with the Taliban. Clinton told three senior female Afghan officials that “we will not abandon you. . . . [I]t is essential that women’s [...]
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