Author: catnip

(Please don’t knock newsworthy and special diaries off the reco list for this one, since this is just a playground diary. Those who want to play will find it. Thanks.) Okay. I promise not to break into my really, really...

Due to the extensive coverage of the London bombings, other important news has been placed on the back burner. zander provided a round up yesterday of key Iraq stories and I’ve compiled a list here of other developments I...

Today has been a tough day. Many of us have reacted in a political fashion, and rightly so. But, I think we need to take a moment to get away from the politics and focus on the lives lost and the hundreds who have been wounded...

I ask that question every single day. Today, after hearing about the London bombings and the horrific deaths and horrible woundings, and after watching the director of the US Homeland Security Department, Michael Chertoff,...

Even after findings that have shown that innocent people have been sentenced to death, the Republicans have decided they want to speed up the process – in effect denying proper appeal rights of death row inmates. The...