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Horror of Syria’s war displayed at UN

PreviousNext WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Horrific images of corpses from Syria’s civil war, including shriveled bodies of detainees starved to death and others with their eyes gouged out, were among some 55,000 photographs smuggled out of Syria and presented at the…

Bulger parents speak of pain over Venables release

Denise Fergus stands with her husband Stuart as she speaks to the press after addressing a parole hearing for Jon Venables by video link from Crosby on May 22, 2013. The parents of the murdered two-year-old toddler expressed their anguish…

What Same-Sex marriage decisions tell us about America, Constitution

American University students Sharon Burk, left, and Molly Wagner participate in a rally for rights for gay couples in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP2013) The preservation of explicit inequality in the law is hard to defend and…

Marriage equality, the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice’s cousin

Chief Justice John Roberts. (AP) Today, the Supreme Court considered a case about whether voters in a state can pass a law that arguably violates the Constitution of the United States of America. ; The case about to decide the…

Obama jokes he doesn’t perform flawlessly night after night

LOS ANGELES, California – At a star-studded concert in Hollywood, President Obama joked that unlike the rock stars who were on stage before him, he doesn’t always perform perfect each night. The president praised the stars for performing on stage…

Continuing The Fight Against Rogue Websites Post-SOPA

The online firestorm that erupted over the consideration of SOPA and PIPA — the federal ant-piracy bills — effectively killed the legislation for 2012. Yet it’s imperative that the push for serious legislation addressing online piracy continue. But, likewise, the…

Why voter ID should matter to Americans of all races

The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state’s voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry…

Qaddafi’s Demise Is Straight Out of Shakespeare

For once, a fitting end: Justice both done and seen to be done in the streets of Sirte. Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, after no less than 42 years of brutal, corrupt, despotic, vicious and murderous abuse of power, was hauled…

Fast and Furious Screw Up Hurts Innocent Americans

There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a New York City-style “rubber room.” Yesterday, the Justice Department announced it was shuffling Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,…