These lies about the left and the ACLU etc are very unchrist-like and very much against the christian message. What could be more christian than to be kind and respectful? What does it cost you to say Merry Christmas, or a blessed Ramadan, or Happy Hanukkah, or have a wondrous Yule? And is it so terrible for someone, knowing they have a mixed audience, to honor all sacred traditions by saying Happy Holidays?
BBC NEWS | UK | Terror detainees win Lords appeal: “Indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial is anathema in any country which observes the rule of law. It deprives the detained person of the protection a criminal trial is intended to afford.”Lord Nicholls The UK’s highest court has ruled that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws. “Detainees” held at Belmarsh have been compared to the situation at Guantanamo. In other news – US sales figures are…
MADRE: Demanding Human Rights for Women and Families around the World > Human Rights Day 2004: US Guilty of War Crimes in Iraq Visit this site in any case, but this was sent to me in my daily newsletter from Global Daily Headlines, a service of OneWorld United States. It is important to circulate this information, but be aware that I did not write or research this one myself. Documentation is included for those inclined to doublecheck sources. When you…
We all know that the Appropriations Bill is a huge mess, full of pork and favors. Here’s one little bit of the story you may not have heard of yet… We desperately need your help to get the word out about a Rider the huge Appropriations Bill sneaking its way thru Congress. A vote is expected on Monday. This Rider would give the Bureau of Land Management the authority to begin the slaughter of 23,000 wild horses on public lands…
Congress Funds Psychological Tests for Kids One of the nation’s leading medical groups, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), decried a move by the U.S. Senate to join with the House in funding a federal program AAPS says will lead to mandatory psychological testing of every child in America – without the consent of parents.…“Soviet communists attempted to paint all opposition to the state as mental illness. It now seems our own federal government wants to create a…
It looks as though we just haven’t really hit bottom yet. If half of us still don’t get it, maybe it really will take another couple of years. So, so much will have been lost, including years of any possibility for future prosperity. But maybe that’s what it takes – for us all to be a lot less comfortable, for politics to become more of a neccessary knowledge. So far, half of us didn’t care that from the time Bush…