Author: Steven D

Three members of Congress, all Democrats, all members of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote an op-ed and submitted it to various major national newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. Everyone turned...

Tasered While Black. Here’s a good story about a pregnant black woman who was tasered by police in the neck after they already had control of her, and a black male motorist tasered for not being fast enough to produce his...

The House yesterday voted to pass a bill that would prohibit the CIA and other intelligence agencies, as well as the military, from using “waterboarding” and other torture techniques on anyone held in detention by...

Are you listening Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers? Because you should be, oh you should be (via The Raw Story): Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) says he’s hatched a plan that will secure health care for children, help to restore...

I don’t try to offer my opinions regarding the theological questions of Catholicism. First I’m not a theologian, and I’m not Catholic. So why, pray tell, is Pope Benedict preaching to the world from his bully...