If a gay man slaps me, it’s a misdemeanor, if I slap him back…

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Federal Hate Crimes Bill or Pedophile Protection Act?
–by Angela Rockwood

I was watching this clip that someone sent to me the other day, and I just had to do a double take.
The Federal Hate Crimes legislation, S. 909, is cited as the “Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.” Why? For sympathy points? [...]

Psychopolitics with Dr. Brian Russell

By Dr. Brian Russsell

Here’s the latest on the psychopolitical front:

1) A day after I said that Sen. John Ensign’s political career should be over (the married father of three recently announced that he had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer), he resigned…sort of. He didn’t resign from the Senate, but he did resign his leadership post on the Senate Republicans’ Policy Committee. Personally, I’d like to see Ensign continue to follow in the footsteps of former senator John Edwards…and get out of office entirely (and what’s up with these John’s in the U.S. Senate?)