Amtrak has an annual photo contest that has been running since 2003. Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York’s Penn Station, taking photos to enter in next year’s photo contest, when he was approached by Amtrak police. They asked him to delete his photos immediately, and he refused. He was subsequently [...]
Christopher Handley is a collector in Iowa. He’s been charged with the alleged possession of obscene manga, and faces up to 20 years in prison.
He received a package containing seven manga, which was intercepted by the Postal Inspector and determined to contain obscene content. Authorities seized his collection of over 1,200 manga volumes, hundreds of [...]
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12 year-old honors student Dymond Milburn was beaten by plainclothes police officers in front of her house. The officers mistook her for a prostitute (they claimed she was wearing “tight shorts”), drove up in a van, jumped out, grabbed her, telling her “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.” She resisted, yelling “daddy, daddy.” One [...]
Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, “What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!”
Yup, this actually happened. This [...]
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These sorts of stories really bother me. This kid, raised as a Jehova’s Witness, decides to turn down a blood transfusion that would have saved his live, on the grounds that it would make him “unclean and unworthy.”
Of course, when I say “he decided,” I’m simplifying things a bit. There’s no way a young teenager [...]
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The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
In addition, the report disclosed government plans to build a new database to assess the risk posed by people identified as potential or suspected terrorists.
Remember, this is the country where a you can be [...]
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