7Vote!
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
New York – Long criticized from within and without for being silent on real issues, the monolithic Agudath Israel organization, a pillar of America’s Orthodox Jewish right wing, now seems to have taken “a step in the right direction,” says VIN News Editor-in-Chief. VIN News, is referring to recently-appointed Agudath Israel of America Executive Vice President [...]
7Vote!
Gay Geeks.Org (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
After cancelling Adam Lambert for being too raunchy, Good Morning America instead decided to book Chris Brown, currently on parole for beating up Rihanna. Way to go with the American Values there, ABC.
+Vote!
Providentia (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Legend has it that when Judge Melville B. Gerry handed down a death sentence on Alferd Packer, he used these words, "There was seven Democrats in Hinsdale Country but you, you voracious man-eatin' son of a bitch, you ate five...
4Vote!
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
"Pulp Fiction" co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been removed from a prison work furlough program and locked up, authorities say. Avary was sentenced in September to a year in jail and five years' probation for causing a drunken driving car crash that killed a...
7Vote!
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those of us in law enforcement are getting pretty good at finding repeat, violent offenders and locking them up so they can't do any more harm for a while. That doesn't undo the pain victims endure. Far too many lives are still being lost to crime and violence in America.
4Vote!
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
MINDEN (AP) -- A Minden man charged with four misdemeanors involving a rollover accident that left one man dead is asking a judge to restore his driving privileges.
7Vote!
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Jersey – Evidently, addressing child molestation in Orthodox communities is no longer a quiet process. From the back channels of private dialogue and in-house cleaning, it has in recent months swelled into a flash flood of popular debate. Panel discussions moderated by rabbis and led by victims’ testimony attract crowds in the hundreds from [...]
7Vote!
YesButNoButYes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phew. Finally, we get to do a story about Brittany Spears that doesn't involve singing, child abuse, or unshaven private parts. And a story about Whitney Houston that doesn't involve singing, crack abuse or unsavory crack dens. This Brittany...
+Vote!
Kmareka.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
This isn’t a game of ‘ain’t it awful’ because we all know that people do awful things. What we don’t understand well enough is the paralysis that afflicts people who have a responsibility to protect the powerless, and the network of complicity that arises around centers of power… Ireland’s police colluded with the Catholic [...]
4Vote!
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Sadly, Thanksgiving's feast lasts but a few days, depending on how fast you plow through leftovers. But at Dave's Chillin-n-Grillin in Eagle Rock, a city district north of downtown, the traditional holiday meal is served every Thursday - on a bun. It's...
+Vote!
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Report: Murphy follow-up investigation planned | BreakingNews.ie...
3Vote!
Head Rambles (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Like most Irish, I have been following the fallout from the Murphy Report on the child sex abuse in the ‘Catholic’ Diocese of Dublin. To say that I am sickened by the whole affair is a gross understatement. Let’s just look at the facts to date. There was systematic and widespread child abuse for at least the last [...]
+Vote!
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
All through this recession our government keep telling us about certain actions by groups will damage Irelands international reputation abroad....
+Vote!
Caron's Musings (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A couple of days ago, Tom Harris published this posting in which he basically took Alan Johnson's line that Asperger's Sufferer Gary McKinnon should be hung out to dry and be extradited to the United States for trial. I think he's wrong, as I have posted before for both humanitarian and legal reasons, and here's why. Tom outlined what he saw as a series of myths in the debate about what should happen...
8Vote!
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Since we're in the middle of the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence , I thought today I'd take a look at domestic violence. It's certainly not something to be proud of that a quarter of American women are victims of domestic abuse, or that only half of such incidents get reported to the police. Or that a estimated 15-25% of married women have suffered marital rape -- which was legal in every...
3Vote!
child abusewatch | yesterday
Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel presents 2009 Child Advocate of the Year award Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel presented Child AbuseWatch’s Child Advocate of the Year Award on Friday, November 13th, 2009. This was the first time that this honor has been awarded. The recipient, Vicki Tucci Esq, Circuit Director, Guardian ad Litem Program, 15th Judicial Circuit spoke of the importance of all aspects of the
4Vote!
child abusewatch | yesterday
Child AbuseWatch, the national child abuse prevention organization, today published an open letter to the National Football League and CBS. In the correspondence they asked the NFL to drop Pete Townshend from the Super Bowl half time entertainment line-up. The reason? Pete Townshend’s record as a sexual offender on the British Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR). Townshend was on the UK register
3Vote!
aasiada6w6 | yesterday
SAN FRANCISCO – A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnapping her. In a statement Tuesday, family spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer called a plan to make a movie about Dugard's life "exploitive, hurtful and breathtakingly unkind." The statement came after Shane Ryan — the director...