Month: June 2011

Kader Asmal and former president Mary Robinson at a meeting of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties in September 1976. Kader Asmal, founder of both the British and Irish Anti-Apartheid movements, Cabinet Minister in...

. Mobile phone ‘links Osama to Pakistan intelligence’ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (NY Times) — The cellphone of Osama bin Laden’s trusted courier, which was recovered in the raid that killed both men in Pakistan...

I was born in North Carolina. I’m 2 years younger than Elaine Riddick, who after she was raped and bore the rapist’s child, was deemed “promiscuous” by the state of North Carolina and was ordered to be...

The following needs to be read in full, but I’ll provide you a beefy excerpt. The setting is the Senate HELP subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The topic is the human...

In the war on women Indiana may be outpaced by Kansas. In fact, it is not unlikely that Kansas will soon be the only state in the country where literally no one will perform a legal, safe abortion. And that’s just fine...