Remember back in 2001, it was all about being cool. Everyone was wooing the youth vote. Tony Blair strummed his guitar, headed footballs, wore jeans and let Euan go drinking
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Labour has no cure for its binge hangover
If President Obama does not use his power to aggressively investigate and pursue this matter to the full extent of the law, he should be impeached and removed. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy It has been a year since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, so it is no longer adequate to point vaguely in the direction of Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Mukasey and the rest of the despicable clowns who oversaw the previous junta. Or rather: we have an established method for assessing and assigning blame (and its absence) under our system — a legal system with long-established rules of evidence and standards of due process.
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End of Excuses Long Overdue
A fundraising auction in Denmark on Tuesday generated debate about free speech after the auction house declined to include a water colour by the newspaper cartoonist who caused outrage among Muslims worldwide in 2006, DPA reports.
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Danish auction house drops controversial cartoonist’s work
Japan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a former high-ranking member of the AUM-Shinrikyo cult convicted of murder and other crimes, meaning the death sentence handed down to him in earlier rulings will become fixed. The man is the 10th member of AUM Shinrikyo to have a death sentence fixed
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Supreme Court rejects AUM cult member’s death sentence appeal
In Uniontown, Ohio, the school board last month voted to change the school’s mission statement to temporarily remove “belief in God” from the school district’s mission statement after a complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation. (See prior posting .) Fox 8 News Cleveland yesterday reported on efforts of two high school students, Mackenzie Muchalk and Alex Looney, who are fighting the school board’s move. They are selling T-shirts that read: “We value a belief in God” on the front and, on the back, “They can take his name out of our mission statement but they can NEVER take Him out of our hearts.” They want the audience at next month’s school board meeting to attend wearing the T-shirts
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Ohio High Schoolers Fight Removal of God From School Mission Statement
A Vietnamese man violently forced to recant his fledgling Christian faith faces pressure from authorities and clansmen to prove his return to traditional Hmong belief by sacrificing to ancestors next month. Documentation of forced recantations in northwest Vietnam indicates authorities are contravening Vietnam’s 2004/2005 public religion policy.
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Forced Recantations of Faith Continue in Vietnam
Over 40 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Jos in the country’s Plateau State, after around 200 Muslim youths attacked Christians near a Catholic Church sparking retaliatory violence, Christian rights investigators said Monday, January 18. According to one observer the apparent refusal by authorities to prosecute those responsible for previous attacks against Christians contributed to Sunday’s clashes
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Over 40 Killed After Muslims Attack Nigeria Church
Surely you’re making a funny , United States of America Today dot com: Having secured its first major best-picture award this weekend, Avatar ignites an Oscar race that has had no clear front-runner. And, depending on whom you ask, it still doesn’t
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The Golden Globe Award: Now Worth Its Weight in Unobtainium
Oneindia Hindu leader Rajan Zed calls Jennifer Aniston's yoga practice superficial (VIDEO) Examiner.com Zed issued a statement in Nevada today extending an invitation for Aniston to get more involved in her yoga practice by adopting Hinduism . ..
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Today Liberty returns to court. After the victory last week of personal privacy over blanket stop-and- search powers in the Court of Human Rights, we go to the Court of Appeal to protect freedom of thought, conscience and religion from unjustified intrusion and prejudice.
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Freedom must apply to all faiths and none