If you thought that the only place this sort of thing happened was in undeveloped and backward theocracies – think again.
An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend.
At an Ohio Right to Life fundraiser Friday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin once again defended the notes she wrote on her hand during last month’s Tea Party Convention. She said she didn’t have a good answer to media criticism at the time, but now she has one: God did it too.
@edhenrycnn If USA wins, Canadian prime minister’s press sec will wear Team USA jersey during next briefing when parliament comes into session March 3
I know this may come as a bit of a shock to you but you cannot possibly win the hearts and minds of dead Afghani people.
Funniest thing seen on twitter so far today
@DRUNKHULK: WHY ITALY NO GOT MARIO ON OLYMPIC TEAM! HE PROVE HE RUN! JUMP! SWIM! AND HE COLLECT GOLD COIN LIKE THERE NO TOMORROW!
It’s 2013. Sarah Palin has been elected President of the Unites States. In her first foray into international affairs she announces that she’s going to resolve this pesky and long standing dispute between North and South Korea. Her adoring supporters revel in her steely resolve, and her self proclaimed willingness to “take the bull by the tail and look it firmly in the eye”.
– apparently doesn’t always stay in Iraq
U.S. soldier ‘waterboarded his own daughter, 4, because she couldn’t recite alphabet’
Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after trying take 33 children out of Haiti at a time of growing fears over possible child trafficking.
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“In this chaos the government is in right now, we were just trying to do the right thing,” the group’s spokeswoman, Laura Silsby, said at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a hearing before a judge on Monday.
The FBI says the so-called “Geezer Bandit“ has struck again in San Diego.
The FBI says a frail, elderly man gave a clerk a note demanding money and pulled a handgun Wednesday at San Diego National Bank. He left with an unspecified amount of cash.
I don’t think it’s any great secret that I spent most of my life living, working, and hunting in the Canadian Arctic, nor is it any great secret that I have less than fond thoughts towards the Euroweinies and animal rights activists peddling their idiotic anti-sealing message to the masses – todays installment of European Union hypocricy in banning the import of seal products because the seals are supposedly killed in inhumane ways comes to us courtesy of Paul Schneidereit at the Chronicle Herald.
– within a year, or within a lifetime.
US president Barack Obama has admitted that he has failed to unite Americans and change the way Washington works during his first year in office.
Canada and the United States share a common problem, because of the size of our respective countries, and the difference in peoples and values spread across them, neither will ever be “united”.
– and because I think it would be fun to have a role in that sort of dysfunction I have, this very morning, submitted my resume directly to the Prime Minister offering to act in the capacity of spiritual advisor for Paganism to Her Majesty’s Government.
Government appoints “faith advisors” to bring religion further into policy-making
– with the outlawing of blasphemy.
An Irish atheist group have begun a campaign to have a controversial new blasphemy law repealed by publishing 25 quotations it claims are blasphemous on its website.
The new law that came into force on New Year’s Day, making blasphemy a crime that can result in a fine of up to 25,000 euros (36,000 dollars), is “both silly and dangerous”, according to Michael Nugent of Atheist Ireland.
U.S. eases baggage restrictions after initial crackdown… not only that, but as further proof of Obama’s Muslim sympathizing spinelessness
“That business you were hearing with respect to not being able to move around for the last hour, no access to your carry-on, no live TV or telephone . . . all of that has been lifted by the United States, so that’s no longer applicable,”
‘US drone’ hits Pakistan home
At least four people have been killed and several more injured in a suspected US drone attack on a house in Pakistan’s northwest.
Pakistani intelligence officials said the missile strike targeted a hideout of anti-government fighters in the Babar Raghazi area of North Waziristan on Saturday.
But local security officials told Al Jazeera that those killed in the attack were all civilians.
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