Sep 24, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Education, mic, Race and Racism
Published: The Good Men Project (September 24, 2015) Once upon a time, I was a Republican. It was only a few years after the September 11th terrorist attacks and, despite my reservations about the war in Iraq, I believed that maintaining a strong national security apparatus was America’s foremost priority. Because I bought the Bush administration’s line of bull that Democrats were isolationist...
Sep 14, 2015 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Scandals
Sep 10, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, History, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Race and Racism, Religion and Religious Issues
Sep 1, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, mic, Religion and Religious Issues
Published: The Good Men Project (September 1, 2015) Matthew Rozsa deconstructs the dangerous logic being used by the anti-gay rights movement in America today. — Over the last week or so, there has been a growing problem with the logic of the anti-gay rights movement. Let’s see if this article from the right-wing blog InfoWars about Vester Lee Flanagan, the African-American gay man who shot two...
Jun 24, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Science and Technology
Published: Daily Dot (June 24, 2015) The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution may not have as much political cachet as the First or Second, but it’s a safe bet you’re familiar with one of its most important phrases (italics added for emphasis): “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This brings us to Barrett...
Jun 9, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, mic, Race and Racism
Published: Daily Dot (June 9, 2015) Note: This article discusses themes of suicide and police abuse. On Sunday, Kalief Browder took his own life. You may have first heard about Kalief Browder last April, after the New Yorker obtained exclusive footage of the then teenager being beaten by prison guards and fellow inmates during his three-year stay in prison. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the...
Jun 4, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, mic, Original Source Salon.com, Political Parties, Republicans, Terrorism
Jun 2, 2015 | Civil Liberties, mic, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State
Published: Daily Dot (June 2, 2015) A recent internal investigation revealed that the Transportation Security Administration failed 95 percent of its security checkpoint tests. When the Department of Homeland Security made 70 attempts to smuggle explosives and weapons past the citadels of American airport security, they succeeded 67 times. This is part of a larger pattern of post-9/11...
Mar 31, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, General Advice
Published: Daily Dot (March 31, 2015) If there was any doubt that Jeb Bush would repeat his brother’s mistakes on the use of torture if elected president, it has been decisively dispelled. Last December, the Senate published a report that harshly criticized the use of torture by George W. Bush’s administration. Although it noted that the president himself wasn’t informed of the details of these...
Mar 30, 2015 | Civil Liberties, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, General Advice, mic
Published: Good Men Project (March 30, 2015) It is time to bring the nonviolent protests of the 1960s civil rights movement to anti-gay Indiana. I don’t live in Indiana, and because I don’t own a car, there is little chance I’ll be visiting anytime soon. Nevertheless, like most decent people, I am horrified by Indiana’s recent so-called “religious freedom” bill that would allow businesses to...