On her first day cohosting the View, Whoopi Goldberg defended football star Michael Vick, saying certain things are indicative to certain parts of the country. She said dogfighting in the South, like cockfighting in Puerto Rico, is not that unusual.

A girl of 15 killed herself three weeks after revealing that she had been raped to a nurse who failed to alert police. Anna Marie Averill was once among the brightest students in the country and dreamed of becoming a paediatrician.

A man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to having sex and impregnating a then 9-year-old girl. http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/%3Ca%20hre f= .. http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/ .. This is just crazy!!

They were days to sit back and let the big drumbeats roll through the bloodstream, as they have for thousands of years in American Indian communities.

Yes, most of us despise the war in Iraq, but many of us have sympathy for and support the men & women fighting it. You can say "thank you" to the troops overseas at this site. I bet they appreciate it too! Thanks to Jan P. for suggesting this posting.

I think educating the public about dogfighting and getting them to acknowledge and understand that dogfighting is indeed going on in every community in our country is going to be one of the first steps in putting a stop to it.

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NORTHERN Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin today admitted she had not been told about federal plans to implement radical reforms to Aboriginal communities across her jurisdiction.

The Farm Sanctuary in Orland is one of only two in the country (the other is in New York) dedicated to rescuing injured and abandoned farm animals, as well as educating people on cruelty in the farming industry

This human tendency toward hypocrisy was known by all of history's great spiritual teachers, who universally implored human beings to really LOOK IN THE MIRROR before condemning their neighbors.