This is absolutely horrendous. Rape victims in Texas are getting billed for their medical treatment, and specifically the forensic rape kits. To make matters even worse, the fund that is supposed to pay these bills has been ending every year with a surplus. Is this the type of conservative governing that Republicans and their heroes […]
A new report has been released by the EIA saying that our demand on oil is decreasing: U.S. oil consumption is expected to level off with virtually no growth between now and 2030 because of increases in energy efficiency, greater use of renewable fuels and an expected rebound in oil prices, the government said Wednesday. […]
I’m starting a new post on this since the story is constantly growing. For background, check out my earlier post. So the skepticism is really growing now with this latest story: When Ms. Todd reported the incident, “nowhere did she say to the officer that [the assailant] made reference to the bumper sticker. I don’t […]
A brilliant post by Andrew Sullivan: In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. […]
This is absolutely absurd: The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a lawyer’s request Tuesday for immediate access to the medical files of a Guantanamo prisoner who says he has AIDS. Chicago attorney H. Candace Gorman said she needs access to her client’s records as she wages a legal fight to make sure he gets adequate […]
This is totally disguising and needs investigated now: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, […]
Remember back to the summer of 2003? We could not find those WMDs the administration swore Saddam had stockpiles of. Slowly the reasoning of our invasion turned from WMD to freeing the people from the rule of an evil tyrant. We heard stories of rape rooms and people being tortured by different means that made […]