Author: KJ McElrath

America’s First Female Attorney General Janet Reno Has Died at 78

America’s First Female Attorney General Janet Reno Has Died at 78

Posted by | Nov 7, 2016 | , |

Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General in U.S. history, has died at the age of 78. Her death was due to complications from Parkinson’s Disease, from which she had suffered for over twenty years. Appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1993, Reno was a controversial figure. During her tenure in office, she was involved in a number of high-profile cases, as well as a few of the scandals surrounding the Clinton presidency. A native of Florida, Reno started out as a chemistry major at Cornell University, but eventually decided on a law career. She...

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GOP Oklahoma Rep Attaches an Amendment in the Dead of Night to Make Religious-Based Discrimination Legal

GOP Oklahoma Rep Attaches an Amendment in the Dead of Night to Make Religious-Based Discrimination Legal

Posted by | Nov 7, 2016 | , , |

Last month, Republican lawmaker Steven Russel of Oklahoma slipped an amendment into this year’s National Defense Authorization Act – a law which funds the Department of Defense and must be reauthorized every year – essentially making discrimination against LGBT people legal. The sneaky amendment would also allow employers to fire workers who don’t share their “moral” values. Here’s the thing about bigots, racists and homophobes: they know damned good and well that their positions are untenable to most thinking, compassionate Americans. They’re also aware of the “Separation Clause” in the Constitution that puts a wall between Church and State (for the benefit...

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In Los Angeles, Warfare Against the Homeless Continues Unabated

In Los Angeles, Warfare Against the Homeless Continues Unabated

Posted by | Nov 4, 2016 | , , |

Society is responsible for homelessness to a large extent – by allowing rampant development, ill-advised zoning, gentrification, and other factors that have driven up housing costs to obscene levels in many large urban areas of the country. That same society is also determined to criminalize homelessness. Since the United States refuses to address the problem in a country where there are three empty homes for every homeless person, it does its level best to sweep the problem under the rug. Case in point: Los Angeles, where costs for housing are among the highest in the nation. Recently, an attempt by...

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Rumored: Did An Unknown Benefactor Bail Out North Dakota Pipeline Water Protectors?

Rumored: Did An Unknown Benefactor Bail Out North Dakota Pipeline Water Protectors?

Posted by | Nov 3, 2016 | , |

There has been a great deal in the news recently about the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, also known by the hashtag #NoDAPL – including the use of pepper spray and guard dogs against the protesters and wholesale arrests that included journalists and Native American activists and leaders – a number of whom report being placed in dog kennels. As of October 31st, nearly 270 people had been arrested in connection with the pipeline protests. However, the big story that has largely flown under the radar is the $2.5 million bailout of those protesters, reportedly thanks to an unknown benefactor....

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Opioid Overdoses Continue to Rise – Among Children!

Opioid Overdoses Continue to Rise – Among Children!

Posted by | Nov 2, 2016 | , , |

While the judiciary is attempting to hold Big Pharma accountable for the epidemic of opioid abuse across the U.S., that epidemic is growing worse – and tragically, it’s growing fastest among children and adolescents. This shocking news was recently published in Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics. It was based on a study carried out at the Yale School of Medicine, which analyzed data from the Kid’s Inpatient Database recorded between 1997 and 2012. During that time, researchers found over 13,000 cases of children and young people from 1 to 19 years of age who had been admitted...

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