Month: April 2005

Anyone familiar with the 1939 Cary Grant film Gunga Din knows that our word “thug” comes from “thuggee,” word for members of a Hindu fundamentalist movement dedicated to sneak attack and murder. Here in...

Apart from the daily dishings on Tom DeLay, there’s not much encouragement in the news these days.  The economy is faltering and the stock market tanked the last three days of last week – bonddad’s diary....

On April 14th, a Texas House committee unanimously approved a bill, HB 254, restructuring sentences for possession of low amounts of marijuana (under two ounces) in Texas.  Fines and drug abuse awareness classes would...

Lethal Injection Execution ‘Cruel’ – U.S. Researchers (Yahoo) American researchers have called for an halt to lethal injection, the most common method of capital punishment in the United States, because it is...

The definitions: -the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints -exemption: immunity from an obligation or duty -Freedom is the right, or the capacity, of...