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Texas DA, Lawmaker Disagree on “Veterans Court“
A Texas district attorney and a state senator differ on how a veterans court should be implemented in Bexar County, which includes San Antonio. Sen. Leticia Van de Putte …
An Inside Outsider Takes On Wall Street
Wall Street banksters — who could possibly love them? OK, presumably their mommas do, and possibly their pet dogs, but that's it. The general public loathes them and would …
Ruth Marcus | The Criminalization of Bullying
Washington - My heart aches for the parents of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Massachusetts high school student who committed suicide in January after being relentlessly bullied at school and …
Social Fault Lines: The Disaster of Poverty in Haiti (Part 1)
Laura Wagner, a US anthropologist who survived - barely - Haiti's earthquake in January, writes, "Social scientists who study catastrophes say there are no natural disasters. In every calamity, …
Connie Schultz | Non-Catholics Are Grieving, Too
As a columnist who isn't Catholic, I used to feel that whatever happened in the Church was a whole lot of none of my business. It was as if …
Deb Price | For Rent – Just Not to You
A transgender apartment-hunter thought he'd found a perfect place in Baltimore. But when he showed up, the woman raised the rent by $100 over the advertised price, said she …
Guantanamo War Court Resumes Hearings Amid Uncertainty
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Still operating under Bush-era policies that President Barack Obama last year called “a mess,” the Pentagon will resume military commission hearings for accused terrorists Wednesday …
Massey Energy: West Virginia Mine Explosion Site’s Checkered Past
This isn’t the first time that West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine has had safety issues. An explosion Monday that left at least 25 miners dead (four are still …
US War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off
In my 1950s childhood, Ripley's Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If …
Are Parents Too Involved With Their Children?
While being involved in your children's lives and studies is intuitively (and statistically) smart, some techniques are better than others. Despite media fondness for reports of hyper- and helicopter …