Tag: human rights
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December 30, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
Although it was not it’s main theme, my last article touched upon the sacrificial slaughter of a goat by slitting its throat. Not unexpectedly, it elicited a horrified reaction from some readers. . . .
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October 16, 2006 09:55 PM EDT --
The funny little man with the pompadour hairstyle may look like a joke, talk like a joke and act like a joke, but he is just plain evil. The North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il may be currently in the news . . .
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March 08, 2007 07:05 AM EST --
China is the fastest growing economic superpower in the world. India comes a close second. It is estimated that, by 2030, these two countries will overtake the United States and Japan as the world’s . . .
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May 26, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
I can't get over this story. Here was a guy who was in a car wreck, dazed, bleeding and burned so badly that his skin was flapping on his back, and he had staggared away from it far enough . . .
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June 12, 2007 11:22 PM EDT --
HOLLYWOOD -- India, which advocacy groups say may have as many as 65 million forced laborers, was spared the worst ranking on the State Department's new list of nations where humans are bought and . . .
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November 15, 2006 03:07 AM EST --
A human rights group named the Human Rights Consultative Committee is mounting a legal challenge to pop star Madonna's bid to adopt a baby boy from Malawi. The 14-month old baby boy, David, is now . . .
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May 29, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Kunte Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, and her son George noticed that every time the whites "massas" became frightened--most likely by the threat . . .
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September 29, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
IS JUSTICE JUST US?
Justice Clarence Thomas' . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
As I sit down to write this article, much of the Middle East is in crisis. Rockets are falling on Israel and bombs are falling in Lebanon. Hundreds of people have been killed on injured on . . .
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September 28, 2007 09:21 AM EDT --
NO LIGHTWEIGHT
Last night at about . . .
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November 30, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
A Seattle fourteen-year-old Seattle boy died of leukemia after a judge ruled he had the right to refuse a life saving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs. Dennis Lindberg . . .
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July 10, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
The US Department of Veterans Affairs has refused to also a Wiccan religious symbol, the five-pointed star with a circle, on a memorial to Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart of Fernly, Nevada. Sgt. Stewart . . .
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August 23, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
He lay there on the ground
cold and dead;
though not from bullets,
she had wished for his head.
Neither prison for him,
nor a gruelling fate.
Or judgement day
at the pearly gate.
Dead drunk, he had stumbled, . . .
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April 27, 2008 08:42 PM EDT --
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barak Obama's pastor appeared on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS last week. I watched the full hour and found Rev. Wright, a former US Marine who cared for . . .
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May 23, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Each time I read a report of the suffering of people in Iraq, or Gaza, Or Lebanon, or East L.A. I am reminded that America claims a tradition of defense of equality and liberty. And each time i am reminded, . . .
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
It's time to think about an exit strategy for Iraq. In my view, it would be best to split up Iraq into three separate nations, one for the Sunnis, one for the Shiites and one for the Kurds. This should . . .
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April 18, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
Most of you know already how I feel about this Nation's Champion of Human Rights chairing meetings that explicitly approved of and some even say choreographed torture of people being held without . . .
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March 12, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Well, while the US is out bringing freedom and democracy to those countries WITH oil, they have made . . . and this will likely shock you . . . some very interesting allies. True, the Saudis . . .
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September 21, 2007 12:10 PM EDT --
I have been goaded into anger again.
The United States Senate, representing me and you, and Andy Meyers and Moveon.org has overstepped its bounds by a couple of dozen leagues. They have voted a . . .
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December 17, 2006 05:57 AM EST --
“Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King (Jr.)
“The boy was made to die bit by bit, writhing in pain like a ‘halal’ animal. . . .
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