After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the immigration detention system.
The alleged abuse took place in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, near Austin, Texas. The resident supervisor, Donald Dunn, 30, was charged Thursday with three counts of official oppression and two counts of unlawful restraint, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The facility is managed by Correction Corporation of America, a private detention and corrections contractor.

CONCLUSION
Proposition 8 falls to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the Callfornia Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

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Yesterday, to honor Hemp History Week (who knew?), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) used the occasion to promote his proposal, co-sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), to legalize the domestic production of industrial hemp, a genetic but non-psychoactive relative of marijuana. Paul’s sprawling speech touched on more topics surrounding the plant than you knew existed.
The history: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew industrial hemp and used it to make cloth. During World War II, the federal government encouraged American farmers to grow hemp…

Recovered memories are memories of traumatic events that have been partially or fully forgotten, and then were later recovering into one’s conscious mind. There is very strong scientific evidence that recovered memories exist. The content of these memories have fairly high corroboration rates. The idea of repressing memories has been explained as a common way the mind deals with pain, by trying to push them out of awareness.
There are many studies that have proven that the recovered memories of traumatic events exist. Brown, Scheflin …

Ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of crimes against children and adults.

Yesterday may have been International Blasphemy Day but this story is no joke.  In response to accusations of covering up child abuse and violating many provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Catholic Archbishop Silvano Tomasi sought to counter-attack and deflect criticism.
According the Guardian:
In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN human rights council in Geneva, the Holy See said the majority of Catholic clergy who committed such acts were not paedophiles but homosexuals attracted to …