Upside Down Under: Leonard Peltier in the news again...

It seems like it’s been a long time, but Leonard Peltier is back in the spotlight for a couple of reasons.

Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, who is now 79, is serving two consecutive life sentences in a Florida prison for his role in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation that left two federal agents dead.

First of all, he was recently denied parole from the prison...