We definitely need to heed Tim's advice to put away "the safe & sanitized version of this man & his compatriots" & "awaken from the stupor" which our "Ambien-induced haze" has cast upon us in order to deal with the legacies of injustice which MLK against which he spent his life f …

"Count to ten; & take a deep breath!"

A second time around, this expose on the culture of corruption & secrecy that allows Border Patrol officials literally get away with murder was even more rewarding & meaningful: it is an absolute must-read, regardless of your political persuasion.

It does us well to reflect on the stories of our victims....

When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment will cost the State of Missouri.

President Obama's "story"goes like this: adherents of Islam are comprised of two groups, "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims." The "radical Muslims" believe in the use of violence, because they are "against freedom." Fortunately, "radical Muslims" represent a very …

Dear supporters of Proposition 8, Please do not take my words as gloating but rather as a clear and concise analysis of why you may be feeling dejected now over the overturning of Proposition 8.

If you are still reading this you should know there are times when Maddad has got to rant. If you are thin skinned, leave now....just vote me up first...LOL

A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union...

Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia since his 1991 conviction for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, sat in white prison scrubs with chains on his waist, as his lawyers presented their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in a rare innocence appeal Wednesday.

A near unanimous Supreme Court today ruled Washington state can release the names of the roughly 138,000 people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law.

In the ornate Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the US State Department—before a standing-room-only crowd that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as "one of the biggest we've had here"—Clinton recognized Laura Germino, the antislavery campaign coordinator f …

WASHINGTON — For half a century he lived in the United States, finally settling at the end of a cul-de-sac in Panama City, a short drive from the beach.

Questions have been raised about the way children are dealt with by the criminal justice system after two young boys were convicted of attempted rape.

Michele Elliott, of charity Kidscape, said the decision to try them at the Old Bailey was "absolutely wrong".

While I was in Malawi in December, Malawi's first gay couple got married in a public commitment ceremony. Their names are Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza. I read the headlines detailing their wedding and sardonic commentary of the journalists writing the pieces.

in the early 1970s, Cox was tasked with authoring the Los Angeles Police Department's new policy manual. He and his colleagues weighed whether this sort of collaboration between police and immigration officials made sense.

In 2003, before becoming Governor of Arizona, then-Secretary of State Jan Brewer declared Arizona to be a "Golden Rule State." This teaching, common to most of the world's religious faiths, ("do unto others, as you would have them do unto you") was, as a result, imprinted on spec …

The body of a 44-year-old man is a bioterror weapon, according to a Michigan county prosecutor who is charging Daniel Allen, with "possession or use of a harmful biological device" for biting his neighbor during a neighborhood fight.

Mary Katharine Ham takes you on a tour of Durham, highlighting Mike Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case-- as well as other parties' collusion.