Posted on April 8th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Nope, this is not a post about Iraq, or even about King Georgie. It’s about 8 kids my age who don’t have the sense God gave a turnip! According to the L.A. Times,
Eight teenagers have been arrested on charges alleging they beat another teen in an “animalistic attack” so they could make a videotape to [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
I’ve written before about prison camps for teenagers and the abuse that happens there, but this one’s the worst I have seen described INSIDE the U.S. Nothing, NOTHING these girls did could justify this. Never!
AP: 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers (AP)
from Yahoo! News
AP - The Columbia Training School [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My mom is in prison, on drug charges, and would be much better off in a drug treatment [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Lucas
Today during my social studies class, we had a debate over the Supreme Court case, Wade vs. Boy Scouts of America. In the case, a man that had been in boy scouts for 12 years, earning the coveted rank of Eagle Scout, began to tell people that he was gay. because of this he [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
On Blogging for Choice day, the 35th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion, I wrote a post for my other blog about anti-abortion eighth graders at a Catholic school. That post was read on the air and discussed on the Head On Radio Network, and you can hear the whole discussion [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Victoria Jaramillo, 40, holding her 3-month-old daughter, Frida, at Santa Martha Acatitla, a women’s prison in Mexico City. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times)
My mom is in prison and has been for more than four years. I have thought a lot about what it would be like if she had [...]
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Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I have heard a lot of liberal and progressive adults say that is is indecent and wrong to criticize 12-year-old boys. I disagree. There are a lot of reasons why you might criticize 12 year-old boys. Some of them don’t shower often enough and they have terrible table manners and their [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
Sorry I have been absent the past weeks. I have been writing letters to my local paper in an attempt to help correct the American Public’s ignorance. My latest letter was in response to this letter published on October 1st:
William O. Stephens seems to be as misguided [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
photo from ABC News
General Peter Pace is the chairman of the joint chiefs, making him the most elevated military office in the United States. He is not our priest-in-chief or our parent-in-chief, but he seems to think he is, and that his “upbringing” and his beliefs make him qualified to tell the rest [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2007 by Alex Habrock
Recently, I was compiling facts for a piece I was going to send to my local paper in response to a letter written by a terribly misguided war supporter. What I came across, confirms that the real goal of the Iraq War is oil.
I decided to look up financial information on Halliburton, which everyone [...]
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