Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
If you’re in Thailand, better stand up when you’re supposed to!
Thai student accused of king insult
from AL JAZEERA
Failure to stand for king’s anthem could land student with 15 year jail term.
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, Young Adult Issues, news, teens
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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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Mental Illness, Moral Issues, Opinion, Politics, Secondary Featured Stories, Texas, crime, poverty, prison, prisons
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
This is only good news AFTER I figure out how to block calls. But I guess it is good for other people.
Texas the last state to give inmates regular phone privileges
from HoustonChronicle
For the first time ever, Texas prison inmates will soon be able to pick up a phone and reach out to family and […]
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, Texas, prison, prisons
Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
Well THIS is hardly fair!
ER docs give whites narcotics more often
from Yahoo! News
AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed […]
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Health, Medical News, Secondary Featured Stories, discrimination, equality, news
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
This is a great game that helps teach vocabulary and also raises money for giving rice to hungry people. I’ll be ready for the SAT’s in no time!
Click here to play.
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Filed under: FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, hunger, poverty
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Brendon Schweers
Posted on October 24th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
YOUTHinkLeft is proud to be hosting a blog and news service including reality based news and selections from the liberal blogosphere.
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Filed under: Secondary Featured Stories, Useful Links, YOUTHinkLeft Site News, news
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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Filed under: Activism, Alex Habrock, Constitution, Democrats, Foriegn Affairs, George W. Bush, Government, Moral Issues, Opinion, Secondary Featured Stories, Terrorism, War on Terror
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
I HATE beauty pageants. Big time hate. But I know I will need a scholarship to go to college and I support girls that do the beauty pageant thing in order to get a scholarship. So reading stories like this bothers me. They’re combining to try to keep her from collecting. […]
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Filed under: Activism, Education, FrecklesCassie, Secondary Featured Stories, beauty pageants