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Police Raid Wrong House, Shooting 61 Year Old Homeowner to Death

These violent raids are what the government does to to rescue people from their own actions. And they can't even figure out which home they should be terrorizing.

(LEBANON, Tn) - 61 year-old John Adams was watching TV and thought that he was experiencing a (non-police) home invasion.

His wife saw two men who were banging on the door, Loraine Adams, who is 70, says the men did not identify themselves as police.

Intellectuals and Race: Getting it Wrong from Eugenics to `Social Justice`

Intellectuals and Race" can help bring us back to a serious examination of a question which has not received the empirical examination it deserves.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Intellectual theories, which have largely bypassed complex reality, have had a dramatic influence upon the way Americans view race---and racial differences.

In an important new book, "Intellectuals And Race", tests the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed among intellectuals and which have led to a variety of crusades...

False Complaint by Mullahs in Srinagar Rejected

Men arrived with huge stones and sticks and attacked and beat Agape Home guests who tried to escape.

(SRINAGAR, India) - The mullahs of Srinagar in Kashmir lodged a police complaint saying that many foreign visitors come to the Agape Home and try to convert children to Christianity in Shivapura area of Srinagar.

The local newspapers also printed this false story the next day. But after proper investigation, the police have rejected the complaint by the mullahs.

Supreme Court Will Hear Case of `Baby Veronica`

“We’re talking about what happens to people who share with us an extremely important identity. And that identity is the identity of free citizens in a Republic…" - Dr. William Allen, former Chair, US Commission on Civil Rights

(WASHINGTON DC) - In 2009, Christinna Maldonado chose Matt and Melanie Capobianco to love, nurture, and raise her soon-to-be-born child.

The Capobiancos had long wanted to be parents and after seven failed in vitro fertilization attempts, made the decision to enter into an “open adoption” of Baby Veronica.

The Assault on Ben Carson: Does Free Speech Exist for Black Conservatives?

Free speech for Ben Carson, whatever one thinks of his views, should not be a controversial proposition.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Until recently, Dr. Benjamin Carson was highly regarded----and was widely promoted as a role model for African-American young people.

Growing up in poverty in Detroit, he went to Yale and the University of Michigan Medical School, and at 33 became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.

Man Who Spent 40+ Years In Prison Set to Be Released On Tuesday

Should the state of Arizona be sued for mishandling this case?

(TUCSON YBW) - In 1972, a then-eighteen-year-old Louis Taylor was convicted of killing 29 people in a horrific fire at Pioneer Hotel in Tucson, AZ that occurred two years prior.

In December 1970, a then-16-year-old Taylor was at the hotel participating in the Christmas festivities and attempting to persuade hotel guests to buy him a drink.

Does Congressman Walden Stand by Don Young`s Racial Slurs?

Congressman Don Young (R-AK) talked about hiring 50 to 60 “wetbacks” on his family’s ranch.

(WASHINGTON DC DCCC Press) - Congressman Greg Walden’s Congressional leader, Don Young, used the racial slur “wetbacks” in an interview last night.

Will Congressman Walden condemn his friend’s horribly offensive remark?

Top Ten Reasons Why Israel Actually IS a Legitimate State

The Zionists finally convinced me they’re right. Here are the top ten reasons.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - 10) Hitler, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun all killed more people than Israel has. So why are you singling out Israel for criticism, you anti-Semite?

9) If you don’t accept our legitimacy, our friend Samson will nuke every major city in Europe. How’s THAT for legitimacy, you Jew-hater!

Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists: Weak in the Fight for Human Rights

Religious indifference as the suffering masses grow weary, it is a sad and bitter pill.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - I'll never forget the last go round I had with religious organizations, trying to bolster their support for our human rights news.

Truth is truth, religions are money making industries, they fail to support those who are making positive things happen.

Israeli Security Forces Spray `Skunk` at Palestinia​n Homes

The Israeli military has been looking for an alternative to tear gas canisters for "crowd control," as they saturate neighborhoods.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with "skunk"* as a punishment for organising weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West Bank land.

Human rights watchdog B'Tselem published a video showing Israel's armoured tanker trucks fitted with "water cannons" which spray the foul fluid at Palestinian protesters.