How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations

In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are affecting residents of an Indian reservation that has been decimated by alcoholism. The reservation is dry, but th …

Mother Sentenced To Jail For 9 Years For the Death Of Her Disabled Daughter In The "Worse Case Of Neglect The County Had Seen"

The mother of a 14-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who weighed 28 pounds when she died has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Angela Norman, 43, was sentenced in a Dayton, Ohio court on Thursday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Her daughter Makayla No …

Why Mitt Romney Is No Fan of Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is having another moment. Thanks to Time magazine's creepy cover pic of young mom Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her three-year-old son, the nation has once again gone tits-up over how mothers opt to feed their young. The choice is not an easy one: …

The United States: Where Pregnancy is Probationary and Your Body Is a Crime Scene

Prosecuting women based on the outcomes of their pregnancies violates their constitutional rights and is cruel and unusual punishment. And yet, this is what is happening. Last week, the Indiana Supreme Court declined to drop feticide and murder charges against a woma …

How Casual Cyber Sex Became My Most Intoxicating Drug | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet

I would still have been a sex addict without the Internet, but it’s hard for me to picture because those two tweaky compulsions are so tightly wrapped together for me. I even discovered my sexuality and the World Wide Web at the same time.  Online, I wasn’t ov …

Pregnant Woman With Child in the Car Tased Three Times After Being Pulled Over for Speeding

What is it with cops and tasers? Why do so many of them seem compelled to use them in highly inappropriate ways? "Highly inappropriate" is about the only way to describe what happened to Malaika Brooks, who was seven months pregnant and driving her kid to school one day in 2004 …

How the Christian Right's Homophobia Scares Away Religious Young People

Christian Right activists who give money, pressure politicians and organize against gay rights may think they’re accomplishing a couple of goals, like rolling back gay rights and asserting their religion’s primacy in American culture. Unfortunately for them (but for …

Facebook Founder Eduardo Saverin Could Be BANNED From U.S. After Renouncing Citizenship

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin may not be allowed to return to the United States after he renounced his citizenship to save millions in tax. The 30-year-old, who has a $3.64billion stake in the social networking site, migrated to Singapore ahead of the company's massive s …

Malnourished boy, 2, Found at Washington Home Weighing Less Than 10lb - On Life Support

A two-year-old boy was in intensive care today after being found so malnourished that he weighed less than half as much as a normal child his age. The toddler, whose heart had stopped, weighed between 8 and 10 pounds and had no hair or muscle tone when emergency responders arr …

John Travolta Tried To Perform Oral Sex On Grease Co-Star Jeff Conaway While He Was Sleeping

John Travolta tried to give his Grease co-star Jeff Conaway oral sex while he was sleeping, it has been claimed. Travolta allegedly tried to perform the act at Conaway's home in the 1990s, Conaway's former fiancée Vikki Lizzi told the National Enquirer. She a …

If You Thought Michele Bachmann Was Out There..

Quist's platform and ideology bears a close resemblance to another Minnesota conservative with a huge family and a love-hate relationship with modern science—Rep. Michele Bachmann. That's no coincidence. Beginning in the late 1990s, the duo worked together to take do …

5 Things That Put America to Shame

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" These words, from poet Emma Lazarus, were inscribed on the Statue of Liberty over 100 years ago. Today the golden door has a lock on it, paid for with record profits from the health car …

I Am (Not) That Mom: Raising a Kid with Cardiomyopathy

Sometimes I want to be that mom. Not the mom that wakes up and first thing disconnects a tube from her son's belly that just administered medication. Sometimes I'm tired of it. I'm tired of sitting and pumping food and medications into my son while we watch Monsters Inc.& …

Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man--Again

Even for Justice Antonin Scalia, the crassest of the current United States Supreme Court justices, it was a particularly callous piece of writing. In 2006, in a case styled Kansas v. Marsh, the Court's five conservatives had just upheld a portion of Kansas' capital punishm …

Millions Of Baby Red Crabs invade Cayman Islands - Roads, Buildings, AC Ducts, etc.

- Hundreds of thousands of red baby crabs are invading the Cayman Islands in a seasonal migration that residents say is unusually heavy this year. The crabs are blanketing roads, scurrying across yards and scratching their way up homes and buildings in a process that scientist …

John Travolta Hit By A New Gay Accusation As New Masseur Claims To Recall '1997 Hotel Encounter'

Another hotel masseur is claiming he had a homosexual tryst with John Travolta. Unlike the first two – one of whom withdrew his lawsuit on Tuesday and the first accuser who dropped his case – this latest man to come forward with gay sex claims involving the actor i …

Paul Ryan Deficit Flimflammery Exposed on Morning Joe

It can't be repeated enough: Republicans really don't care about debt or deficits. Case in point, Mittens gave a big speech on Tuesday in Iowa attacking the President over the national debt -- and yet, he wants to make it $2.6T larger in 10 years. And on Wednesda …

Kansas Pharmacists Can Refuse To Fill Some Contraception Prescriptions

The Republican governor of Kansas has signed a law allowing pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs they believe may induce abortions, a move opponents said could hinder some women's access to birth control.

Newlywed Husband 'Stabs PREGNANT Wife Killing Her and The Unborn Baby Boy'

A newlywed man is being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police station with a stab wound to her chest and collapsed. Emergency responders rushed Celestia Duffin, who was nearly seven months pregnant, to a local hospit …

Washington University Study Has Shown That People Have Built In 'Gaydar"

First impressions are said to play a big part in how we are perceived by romantic interests and potential employers. But people can tell more about you than what can be gathered from a firm handshake and a warm smile, according to new research. People have an inbuilt 'gaydar' …

Fox News co-host: Obama Is Bigoted For Suggesting His Name Makes His Winning Harder

Fox News contributor Monica Crowley on Wednesday called the president of the United States “bigoted” for his suggestion that a name like “Barack Hussein Obama” made winning elections more challenging. In an interview that aired on Tuesday, The View …

On Mothering a Black Boy in America - If You Want To Sleep ....Don't

Jabran was ten years old when I gave him the first racial profiling speech. We were engaged in the obligatory back-to-school shopping. He wanted a sweater that had some hip hop insignia. I looked at him and said, “Honey, if I buy you this sweater, NYPD is going to pick yo …

Tea Partiers Backing Scott Walker May Run Afoul of IRS

The tea party movement is kicking into gear again, buoyed by the success of Richard Mourdock in defeating longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in Indiana's GOP primary. They're intent on proving that the movement is not dead, as so many commentators have declared. To that …

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayers Bee-Decimating Pesticide

 As I've written before, Bayer's neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder  One of my biggest comp …

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