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A supporter of Proposition 8, fed up with what he believed was the gay community's and "liberal media's" refusal to accept the voters' verdict, fired off a letter to the editor. "Please show respect for democracy," he wrote, in a letter we published. What he encountered instead was an utter lack of respect for free speech. Within hours, the intimidation game was on. Because his real name and city were listed - a condition for publication of letters to The Chronicle - opponents of Prop. 8 used Internet search engines to find the letter writer's small business, his Web site...

Breastfeeding in public will be a woman's right 12.06.07    New Bill: Expectant and new mothers would be protected from discrimination Nursing mothers will be allowed to breastfeed their babies wherever they like under new anti- discrimination laws announced yesterday. Restaurants, cafes and shops which tried to ban them would face court action and fines of up to £2,500. The move is a victory for pressure groups who have been asking for greater rights for mothers in the interests of better health for babies. It will mean that mothers of children up to a year old will be able...

Bill Cosby didn't waste a second Saturday afternoon giving an almost entirely black audience at the Georgia World Congress Center exactly what they probably expected, which, in the comedian's words, was a "whuppin'." "It has come to this," Cosby said, reprimanding his hosts and the audience as he took the podium, following civil rights leader Andrew Young at the 20th Annual 100 Black Men of America convention. "Who would think that Andy Young would be sitting and I would be standing last to be the keynote speaker? Either they [the sponsors of the event] don't know. Or they tend to...

As a group of residents cheered, a Glen Park man tackled Gary Patrolman Carl Cochran, choking the officer and threatening to kill him in an unprovoked attack Wednesday night, Lt. Roger Smith said. Cochran, a five-year veteran and member of the department’s elite S.W.A.T. team, suffered cuts to his face and injuries to his arm and back as a result of the protracted struggle with Kelvin D. Banks, 40. Cmdr. Jerome Krebes said Thursday he ordered additional patrols in the area in response to the incident. A small group of people — ten or less — surrounded the officer during...

IS SEX SURVEY SHOCKING? Almost a quarter of 14-year-old girls have already had sex with at least one partner, according to a survey by a teen magazine.The Bliss magazine study found that most of them did not use protection and that 60% of them had sex after drinking alcohol.The survey of 2,000 teenage girls across Britain with an average age of 14.5 years is the most comprehensive of its kind.Are you shocked by the findings? Are teenagers having sex younger these days or has it always happened?Do magazines such as Bliss have to take some responsibility for making young...

Topics include ‘queer families’ ‘gays’ in sports and ‘heterosexism.’ Students in Newton, Massachusetts, will be treated to an entire day of pro-homosexual propaganda on December 15. “To BGLAD Day” features workshops and speakers who will make students feel good about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism. “This is so incredibly objectionable,” Brian Camenker, who heads the Article 8 Alliance and the Parents Rights Coalition, said of To BGLAD Day. “The parents are so outraged that this is being pushed on their kids that they don’t know what to do. To use children’s minds this way without even letting the parents know is...

For discussion and education purposes only.Greensboro, North Carolina-AP -- A North Carolina fifth-grader has been charged with assault for knocking out a boy in a school bus fight over a snack cake. (snip) ...According to the principal, when the boy sitting next to him asked for a bite, Kevin said no and was smacked in the face with a stuffed Tweety Bird. Kevin hit back, but was slammed against a window and hit in the back. Then he fell in the aisle and was stomped.School officials say when the bus driver pulled the aggressor off him, Kevin was unconscious.

 Whether a new trend or mode of thought has a generally beneficial or corrupting effect is not usually apparent for some decades or even centuries from the time it first becomes widely accepted. However, in the case of Darwin's hypothesis, the insidious nature of his doctrine was revealed within a very short span of time. Communists, anarchists, and other social revolutionaries of the nineteenth century were already confirmed materialists before Darwin began to espouse his ideas. What the Origin of Species did, however, was endow their atheism with something of a scientific aura. It turned an emotional attachment to...

The average visitor gives not a moment’s thought to these Cités of Darkness as he speeds from the airport to the City of Light. But they are huge and important—and what the visitor would find there, if he bothered to go, would terrify him. A kind of anti-society has grown up in them—a population that derives the meaning of its life from the hatred it bears for the other, “official,” society in France. This alienation, this gulf of mistrust—greater than any I have encountered anywhere else in the world, including in the black townships of South Africa during the apartheid...

Plague In The Heartland Rolling Stone New York Jan 23, 2003 by: Paul Solotaroff Cheap, easy to make and instantly addictive, crystal meth is burning a hole through rural America. A hellish tour of a home-cooked drug crisis... It looks less like a crime scene and still less like a farm than it does a tour of an unhinged mind. Out behind the barn on this half-mile-square spread at the base of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, there is a riot of stolen cars and trucks, parts stripped and chassis mangled. A months-old Lexus, its seats splayed beside...

Torturous teacher escapes with 6-year term over girl's death KOBE (Japan)-- A junior high school teacher whose sex-driven torture of a pre-teen girl caused her death last year escaped Monday with a six-year sentence, a Kobe court ruled. Presiding Judge Yasuhiro Morioka said the perverted educator, Ken Fukumoto, who had pleaded guilty for illegal confinement resulting in the death of Noriko Kamiie, does not deserve a 12-year term demanded by prosecutors because the victim was wrong, too. "What he had done was selfish and repulsive ... however, no one could imagine that the victim would jump from a moving car...