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I hope that folks will come out for the Human Rights Torch Relay Rally
Sunday, April 20, 10am – Peace Walk followed by Rally
City County Building at Washington Square400 South State Street, Salt Lake City
The Human Rights Torch Relay is an international campaign that seeks to bring an end to all human rights abuses against [...]

The lowest point of the abysmal ABC debate, hosted by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson, came when they inserted a patriotism smear against Barack Obama. Because the smear would have sounded petty and stupid if asked by the moderators, it came instead in the form of a short video featuring Nash McCabe, a Pennsylvania [...]

Despite claims to the contrary, Alan Korwin did make a public statement that is untrue (a lie), and given the opportunity to apologize or correct his statement, has chosen to defend this untruth.
On April 9th 2008, Alan Korwin appeared on C-Span. In that speech, in reference to gun ownership in America, Alan Korwin claimed “hundreds [...]

Today, we learned about a new report on the Iraq fiasco, Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath (PDF) from the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University. The author is Joseph Collins, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations.
Here are the first two paragraphs of [...]

A thrilling aspect of this election cycle is that practically every day I get email from either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Never before have I had this sort of intimacy with an American President and an international celebrity.
Just this afternoon Bill took time out from the campaign to send me the following note:

The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today concluding that the United States has no plan to combat al Qaeda and other terrorist threats in Pakistan. The GAO found that “[t]errorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country’s Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in military and [...]

Update: The original title was “Gun Advocates Lie People Die“.
So,… Alan Korwin did not exactly fib. He repeated a claim supposedly made by professor Gary Kleck. A claim which no one can produce.

I DID however find something else Gary Kleck said:
“..less than 2% of fatal gun accidents occur during defensive gun use.” source

That means that [...]

I’ve sent an e-mail to the man pictured to the right. He is a noted gun advocate/writer.
Hi Alan,
I just saw you on C-Span giving a talk on April 8th 2008.
You said, “Guns save hundreds of thousands of lives a year.”
You said this after describing a situation in which a women killed her intruder.
I think [...]

The massive raid upon a polygamist compound in Texas is one of the major violations of human rights in this country. This atrocity, shocking in its initial sweep, hugely over-broad , of children and their parents, gets worse day by day. Now, the pitiful last means of parents to communicate with their [...]

A gaffe happens when a politician, accidentally or on purpose, speaks the truth in public. That’s what Barack Obama got caught doing.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has something to say about the “bitter” so-called controversy that’s been heavily promoted by the Clinton campaign and the media all weekend.

Male hourly wages began to drop [...]

Some months back, Hugo had a post in the great feminist blogswarm about hair. The basic situation: a group of feminist bloggers found themselves in a complex debate about the relative merits of removing or keeping one’s body hair.
Hugo posted on the debate then added his own interesting take here. [...]

Over at Pandagon, Amanda has an amazing post about the FLDS. She describes the FLDS compound as a rape farm. But, my favorite part where she describes the radical fundamentalist mindset:
It’s really their worldview, that posits that men rule over women and children, that is the path towards growing and swapping teenage girls [...]