Remember mid-summer, when the reports circulated during the two very expensive special sessions of the Texas legislature called pretty much just to force through anti-abortion legislation? Remember the
Does the media convey information clearly, neutrally, accurately, or has it too often become something else, particularly sensationalist? Sadly, I'm finding it to be the latter.
When a
There has been a global trend for decades among free nations with representative government, a decline in voter turnout in elections. In 31 nations, spread over every continent, the franchise
On August 4th, 2011 police in a norther area of London, England shot an unarmed black man, Mark Duggan, leading to protests, which in turn were followed by outbreaks of
This was a suspicious story from the beginning.
We have seen news reports of protesters doing thousands of dollars of damage to be wrong. The claims of separate attacks by
There is an aspect to the Zimmerman trial that has been under-addressed in spite of the attention devoted to it.
That issue is that while following a person is
Although it is a statement widely attributed to Abraham Lincoln relating to a temporary suspension of habeas corpus under the Suspension Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 9, clause
Earlier this week I wrote about the misinformation, and misleading by various law enforcement, media, and bloggers about the Zimmerman Verdict Protesters. We saw it in LA, with false claims
Police disperse protesters in Los Angeles // Credit: Mae Ryan via KPCC
I've seen a few accounts of violence attributed to a backlash to the Zimmerman Verdict over the
I was dismayed and disappointed, to say the lest that someone who themselves benefited from Affirmative Action, Justice Clarence Thomas, voted against it. This was all the more disturbing, as
In Minnesota, the recent decision which overturns the congressional affirmation of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act from the 1960s provoked an inappropriate tweet from a democrat in the
