We’ve heard a lot recently about the militarization of police in the United States, but little about the secretization. Would you believe it if I told you that there are very limited statistics kept on police shootings? Believe it: “The nation’s leading law enforcement agency (FBI) collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide, but […]
SCOTUS Gives Into Hypocrisy
This past week, the Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts law that kept abortion protesters at least 35 feet away from abortion clinics. The law set up a parameter with a permanent line painted to designate the buffer zone as it was called. It should be noted that Rachel Maddow had a terrific segment on […]
Proud to be a War Criminal
The war criminals have been crawling out of the woodwork lately. Boasting about being part of the Bush administration Ministry of Torture seems to be the thing to do lately. First there was former VP Dick Cheney in a speech at American University (who must be really desperate for guest speakers) on March 28 making […]
An Unreal Dream: A Film About Wrongful Conviction and Corruption
This weekend, the Houston Cinema Arts Film Festival was held in venues all around the downtown area with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston at its center; in its final session last night the festival screened An Unreal Dream, the story about Michael Morton, who was wrongly convicted of his wife’s murder in 1986 and […]