The Wrongfully Convicted. Here are the stories of the 13 men who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Illinois since... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]
If you're in favor of the death penalty, read this and say that it would have been OK to kill these men in our name. And in the same piece, Patrick Leahy proves himself to be an honorable, courageous politician with his innocence protecation act. If you aren't speaking out about this and voting accordingly, you're partly responsible for the killing of innocent people by the state. [Steve's No Direction Home Page]
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The War Against Women. The Bush administration's anti-choice obsession is resulting in a steady march into the past, to a time when pregnancy was more a matter of fate than choice. [New York Times: Opinion]

Our very own Taliban at work.

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Tucked Away in a Corner of Country. Greg Brown, an itinerant Iowa Zen beatnik folkie, with a voice that's deep, rutted and dark, is an authentic creature and interpreter of the Midwest. By Peter Applebome. [New York Times: Arts]

Some time last year my friend Sima visited me in the rehab ward and brought me a copy of Brown's "Dream Cafe." Since then, with the addition of three or more of his albums to my collection, life out here on the ravaged, bleak, windswept terrain has been enriched.

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