Offending married couples can be punished by a minimum of 100 lashings and a maximum of stoning to death. It also imposes severe prison terms for homosexuality, which will be punishable by public lashings and more than eight years in prison.

"Do you know that terrible feeling you get when someone you care about is viciously attacked for something they haven't done? I got that feeling when I heard the outrageous charges against amazing and courageous people like Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky..."

June 25, 1876, is a date that shall live in controversy. Even if Lieutenant Colonel (?General? to his men) George Armstrong Custer came back from the grave to tell his side of the story, the controversy would still not die. Custer was an American hero???

Doing a little digging of our own, Facing South discovered that what happened in Oxford and Fenton were not isolated instances. There have been numerous cases involving destruction of Native American burial grounds and other culturally significant sites b

When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced last summer that it could seize anyone's laptop, mobile phone, or camera at the border to analyze them for an indefinite period, the criticism was immediate...

"It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply...."

No employee of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) sans the director has ever drawn more public and academic criticism than David Murray, ONDCP's chief scientist.

While the U. S. Turns a Blind Eye, Its 'Partner' States Are Quietly Decriminalizing Illicit Drugs Late last week, the Mexican government, trying explicitly not to call too much attention to what it was doing, decriminalized the possession of very smal

Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse.

A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has found that 40 percent of teens could get marijuana within a day; another quarter said they could get it within an hour.