Socio-Politics

  • Life Without Parole

    In 1989, 13 year-old Joe Sullivan broke into a house and brutally raped the 72 year-old woman living in it.  It is a crime no mind on earth should dare conjure … and yet it happened; an equivalent of a grandchild raping the grandma. Prior to this, the 13 year-old had accumulated a rap sheet…

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  • Maine-ly No To Gay Marriage

    The closer it got to Election Day in the state of Maine this past week, the more uneasy I got.  Before this past Tuesday, 30 consecutive states had voted against marriage between persons of the same sex. In the states where it had been allowed—Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire—it had been through acts of…

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