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The Senate today issued a long overdue apology for refusing to heed the requests of seven Presidents to enact a law making lynching a crime.
The apology was enacted on a voice vote which was not recorded. This article says that while there were 80 co-sponsors of the bill, only six Senators showed up for the voice vote.
With many members straggling back to town from a weekend at home, and only six coming to the floor to vote, the Senate delivered a historic apology Monday night for failing to move against a wave of lynchings that claimed more than 4,700 Americans – most of them black – from the 1880s until the 1960s.
Who was against it? America Blog has the updated list.
If you've never seen a photo of a lynching, go here.
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Crooks and Liars reports this was in an email sent by James Dobson's group to its "Citizen Link" subscribers.
Albertsons Agrees to Respect Pharmacists' Right of Conscience
Albertsons Corporation agreed to accommodate its pharmacists' right to refuse to fill prescriptions that violate their religious or moral beliefs. The accommodation came on the heels of a lawsuit filed by
attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and the Christian Legal Society (CLS) against Albertsons and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on behalf of pharmacist David Scimio.
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The U.S. now has more people suffering from mental illness than any other country.
One-quarter of all Americans met the criteria for having a mental illness within the past year, and fully a quarter of those had a "serious" disorder that significantly disrupted their ability to function day to day, according to the largest and most detailed survey of the nation's mental health, published yesterday.
While mental illness rates have not increased in recent years, the numbers remain quite troubling:
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