Court OKs Ban on Anti-Islam Bus Ads
Should a public bus agency be allowed to reject this controversial ad on the sides of buses?
Author: Lisa Bloom, Avvo Legal Analyst
Do Police Dogs Pass the Smell Test?
Police dogs are one of the most used weapons in America’s War on Drugs, but researchers now believe the dogs snapped to attention based on subtle cues from their humans. Oops.
Opinion: The Road to Marriage Equality
With the majority of the American public supporting marriage equality, I am confident that future generations will look back upon our time as the beginning of the end of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans.
Block the Vote
Millions of American citizens are already barred from voting in the upcoming presidential election, or in any election, because of their criminal history. And with the new rash of voter ID laws, a million more Americans may be disenfranchised as well.
George Huguely Sentenced to Just 23 Years for Death of Yeardley Love
A young man is convicted of beating a young woman to death, and he’s sentenced by a Virginia judge to just 23 years behind bars. How is this possible?
Mississippi Abortion Ruling
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant unsuccessful in “the first step in a movement to do what we campaigned on: to end abortion in Mississippi.”
How Squeamishness About Using the Right Language to Describe Child Rape Protected Jerry Sandusky
Reading today’s blistering Freeh Report, which lays bare the shocking absence of concern for children being abused by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State since 1998, detailing how everyone from the president of the university on down to the janitors protected this serial predator, I’m reminded of the children’s game of telephone. One kid whispers a […]
The Naked Facts on Healthcare Reform
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. It’s been over two years since the Affordable Care Act became law, and almost two weeks since the Supreme Court confirmed that the law is constitutional. Find out what this all means and how it may affect you!
Mass incarceration of our own people is damaging us all
The United States incarcerates more people than any other country, at the expense of its citizens. One in eight men in the U.S. are in prison or on parole, leaving me to think “we can do better”.
DREAM Deferred
Originally sponsored by Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Orin Hatch, the DREAM Act would have provided a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were brought to the US as children, who had otherwise obeyed our laws, and who were in school, the military, or had graduated or been honorably discharged.