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Dale Phillips with arm in sling from tendon injury

Why did Columbus Police beat a former state trooper?

Are innocent citizens pulled over, beaten and arrested by Columbus Police?

  Meet Dale Phillips. He claims he was roughed up, thrown to the ground, maced directly into his eyeballs and violently assaulted resulting in a ripped…

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Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel

           It happened on August 29, 1786.  Protestors, many of whom were veterans of the Revolutionary War, were angry about the distressed economic circumstance that developed in the…

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Photo from Hunting Ground - girl sitting alone and sad on porch

Universities often stand between rape victims and justice

An issue-driven documentary like The Hunting Ground aims to spur viewers into action. A common related goal is to make viewers angry.


On this latter point, director Kirby Dick succeeds.


The film focuses on sexual assault on American…

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RO and the Funny Numbers Club

Did you know that it is perfectly legal to lie in a political campaign? Sounds false, doesn’t it? Ohio, where weird new concepts like “Responsible Ohio” come to roost, found itself at the nexus of a court decision that made lying and deception…

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