LA Times Publishes Boy Scout Sex Abuse Files
1,200 files from 1985 to 1991
Civil Liberties
D.C. Police Looking into NBC Airing 30-Round Gun Magazine
David Gregory showed the magazine on "Meet the Press"
Petition to Have Westboro Baptist Church Labeled a Hate Group Has Considerable Support
Almost 250,000 signatures
Group Offering Free Concealed Weapons Permit Training for Teachers in Utah
Utah and Kansas allow concealed weapons to be brought into schools
Students Protest Ammo Charges Handed Down to Classmate
In trouble for wearing belt made of bullets
Sorry, NRA, Gamers Won This Culture War, But it Doesn't Mean They All Love the Violence
Introspection, not regulation, leads to analysis of video game violence
New White House Counter-Petition Seeks to Keep Piers Morgan in the U.S.
"No one in the UK wants him back."
Vermont State Police Withholding Information in Controversial Taser Death
Epileptic killed after calling mental health crisis line
Who Is Too Unbalanced to Be Armed?
The danger of treating gun violence as a mental health problem
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.
Lockdown in New Delhi over Rape-Related Protests
Angry demonstrators want city made safer for women
2012: From Arab Spring to Early Winter
From Egypt to Syria to Russia, reactionary forces are on the rise.
Faulty FBI Crime Lab Procedures May Have Filtered to States
Errors in methods behind hair analysis could have impacted thousands of cases
Gun Restrictions Have Always Bred Defiance, Black Markets
For reasons of their own, most people, in many countries, defy anti-gun laws
Pakistani Mob Burns Man Alive Accused of Desecrating Koran
30 have been arrested for the murder
Appeals Court Freezes Ban on Gay Cure Therapy
Cannot be enforced while constitutionality of legislation is under review
Swiss President Hints at Surrender on Financial Privacy
May automatically share banking data with other predatory governments
Rand Paul Slams McCain Over Removal of Protections Against Detention
Says the former presidential-wannabe stripped it out of the NDAA in conference committee
Domestic Partnership For Same-Sex Couples Upheld in WI
It's not marriage, but it's something
Cop Fired After College Student Releases Video of Illegal Search
Welcome to YouTube!
NDAA, Including Indefinite Detention, Passes Senate
Called an "abomination" by Senator Paul
NDAA Passes House, Senate By Wide Margins, Amicus Brief Filed by Descendants of Interned Japanese-Americans on 68th Anniversary of Korematsu Decision
Despite efforts to amend it, a provision allowing indefinite detention remains.
MO Lawmakers Plan To Allow Concealed-Carry at Schools
One of the few constructive proposals, so far
Cop Pepper-Sprays, Brutalizes Man With Down Syndrome
The victim's family is not so happy
LAPD, DEA Find Themselves on Opposite Sides of Thin Blue Line
DEA drags feet as LAPD tries to investigate death of drug arrest suspect
New York Sentences Petty Criminals to Sandy Relief
There's nothing like pressed labor for that feeling of community spirit
