Author: aahpat

Thanks to the folks at TalkLeft blog for finding this tidbit on GOP wanna-be ‘Jim Crow Joe’ Biden. The Associated Press reports in the Wilmington Star that Delaware’s United States senator, ‘Jim Crow...

The Christian Science Monitor has produced a massive three part report, Rethinking Plan Colombia, on the status of Plan Colombia, one of America’s forgotten wars that still lingers on. Endlessly killing and sucking...

Last week it came to light that a Northampton Co. PA juvenile court judge, the Hon. William F. Moran, told a white kid he was lucky because minority kids would probably get treated worse in court for the same crime. He was...

Ira Glasser, the retired head of the American Civil Liberties Union, is president of the board of the Drug Policy Alliance. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060710/glasser (link may or may not be temporary. google Ira Glasser for...

Gun violence in Philadelphia will not subside with more police. Ed Rendell knows this. More police have only made it worse up till now and will only make it worse going forward. Police only take the weaker gangsers off the...