Cross-posted at DailyKos. Thanks to Georgia10, and thousands of you who sent faxes and e-mails, and who made phone calls: THE life of a 21-year-old mother was spared shortly before she was due to face a firing squad yesterday as...
Read MoreIs Pennsylvania the north’s Florida? A woman alleged in a call to police last fall that U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood had started choking her while giving her a back rub at his Washington apartment, but no charges were filed,...
Read MoreCross-posted at DailyKos. An NGO, the Niger Committee on Deadly Traditional Practices (aka Coniprat) has retrained about 40 circumcisors in Niger since it began in 1992: “It’s not easy to give up a profession passed down...
Read MoreBreaking: The goal of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to eradicate polio by year end is now in grave doubt since a case has developed in Indonesia, which means the virus has jumped an ocean from Ethiopia, Yemen and...
Read MoreFrom David Sirota’s blog: “A Roll Call report shows that the Senate’s resident wild-eyed right-wing lunatic, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R), is starting to get extremely nervous that he is going to get...
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