Month: April 2005

State to Force 13 Year Old to Give Birth

[From the diaries by susanhbu.]She is thirteen. She does not have a home. She does not have parents. She has been in and out of foster homes for years. She is pregnant. And if the state of Florida has its way, the Miami Herald...

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A Moment of Silence for the Fallen

They are our sons, our daughters, our brothers, our sisters, our mothers, our fathers, our nephews, our nieces, our aunts, our uncles, our neighbors, our community members. They are our Americans. Cross-posted at...

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Tell Us About You!: Newbies&Lurkers

Since Mindmouth seems to be busy these days and she is the one who previously posted a Tell us About you diary, I decided to take up the mantle and put up a diary so that those of you who are new to this site (numbers are rising...

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Feds Investigate Ohio Bush Donor

Cross-posted at DailyKos. The Toledo Blade reports that “Gregory A. White, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, confirmed that his office, in conjunction with the FBI, is looking into [Tom] Noe, who was...

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A New Home for the New Mainstream

As many of you may know, former Congressman Chris Bell of Houston is currently exploring the race for governor of Texas.  Bell was the congressman who filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay last summer, resulting in...

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