The Rape Culture of Rape Cages
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The Rape Culture of Rape Cages

Rape Doesn’t Suddenly Become Okay If You’re A Criminal by Avens O’Brien On Thursday, December 10th, Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of five counts of rape and an additional 13 counts of sexual assault against eight women. He’ll be sentenced in late January and is facing life in prison. The details of this case are…

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France Moves To Strip Citizens Of Civil Liberties After Paris Attacks

Rachel Stoltzfoos French President Francois Hollande proposed constitutional amendments and a three-month extension of state of emergency measures Monday that will severely limit the civil liberties of French citizens. After a series of coordinated terrorist attacks left 129 dead in Paris Friday, Hollande immediately declared a state of emergency, based on a rarely used 1955 law that…

US Nuclear Facilities At Risk, Safety Regs Unchanged Since Before 9/11

US Nuclear Facilities At Risk, Safety Regs Unchanged Since Before 9/11

By Ethan Barton Sensitive information about nuclear plants and materials could be compromised because the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board – a federal advisory agency – doesn’t protect its documents and hasn’t updated its document security rules since before 9/11. The safety board allows all of its computer network users to “access and manipulate” sensitive documents called “unclassified…

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5 Things “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Should Learn from the Prequels

by Micah J. Fleck   [dropcap size=small]M[/dropcap]onday was a huge event for every Star Wars fan in the modern world. As had been rumored the entire week prior, Monday Night Football on ESPN was the host of the premier for the final (and indeed, first full-fledged) trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (thank goodness…

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Father, 11 Year-Old Son, Babysitter Love Triangle Gets Weird

By R. Brownell UK- Jade Hatt, a twenty year old babysitter was recently labeled a sex offender after being found guilty of having sexual intercourse with an eleven year old child. Hatt’s reason for the incident? She thought he was fifteen… According to the original News.com.au article discussing case: ….Hatt abused the boy on a…

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Court Says Advice Column is Subject to Freedom of the Press

By Sarah Gompper On May 7th, 2013, syndicated advice columnist John Rosemond received a cease and desist letter from the office of the Attorney General of Kentucky, Jack Conway, regarding an article he had published in the Lexington Herald-Leader nearly three months earlier. The letter was on the behalf on the Kentucky Board of Examiners…

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Journalistic Ethics, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, And Their $105M Problem

By Lina Bryce After working 18 years in order to establish a career, George Stephanopoulos’ credibility as an unbiased journalist is being called into question. Last Friday, he admitted to donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, just as the presidential race with Hillary Rodham Clinton is gearing up as a leading Democratic candidate. The Post reports that…