Feministing.com Teenage girl beaten, expelled and arrested…for dropping cake This is going to ruin your day. A young woman of color in Los Angeles had her wrist broken by a school security officer after not cleaning up a piece of dropped birthday cake to his satisfaction. During the attack he said, “hold still nappy head.”…
[Congressional Quarterly lists five Democratic House members “facing serious primary challenges”. Is it a coincidence that three out of these five are consigners onto H. Res. 333 to impeach Vice President Cheney and a fourth is its author, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio? Is the Democratic Party nationally conspiring with Republicans to keep Cheney and Bush…
NYDailyNews.com Gotbaum kin’s plea before dying: I’m not a terrorist! BY SOO YOUN in Phoenix and ETHAN ROUEN and ADAM LISBERG in New York DAILY NEWS WRITERS The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the…
Special to IFP by Mikael Rudolph – cofounder, ImpeachforPeace.org Relying on the old credo that one wins more bees with honey than with vinegar, I came bearing gifts. Immediately upon meeting Bill Harper, Chief of Staff for Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN 4th) in her St. Paul offices today I handed him a humorous button I…
