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• Richard Cohen on Same Sex marriage: A right to say ‘I do’

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  No. 2 -- the longest section of the [Manhattan] declaration -- applies to same-sex marriage. It amounts to a confession of confusion, a cry by the perplexed who have come to think that same-sex marriage is at the core -- the rotten core -- of much that ails our society. Everything from divorce to promiscuity is ...
  8 hours ago

• CSM: Swiss minaret ban reflects European fear of Islam

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  The Swiss vote...[recently] to ban the construction of minarets in their alpine country is rippling across Europe. The vote reflects a fear that some of the oldest Christian societies are becoming Islamicized, but is at odds with efforts to integrate the continents roughly 20 million Muslims. Churches and mainstream ...
  10 hours ago

• Answers for those Living with Yasmin Side Effects

  
  EigenAnalysis — Authority: 131
  Studies performed on healthy, premenopausal women in the Netherlands observed that Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella (Yasmin generic) suffered an raised risk of venous thrombosis as compared to non-users. The risks were increased as high as five times with birth control pills. These reports were published in August 2009. This ...
  11 hours ago

• Re: NY City detectorists needs everyones help.

  
  TreasureNet Forum — Authority: 199
  I feel bad for you guys, having to go through this.  But the other part of me asks "how did this happen to begin with?"   I mean, what put this on the bureaucrat city-hall people theres radar to begin with?   The knee-jerk answer to that will always be "someone left holes", etc..... right? While on the one hand ...
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  Religio-Political Talk — Authority: 153
  
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• LA Times Editorial: Christian leaders’ stance on civil disobedience is dangerous

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  Philosophers have argued for centuries over whether it is ever justifiable to break the law in the service of a higher cause. The question acquired a new complexity with the advent of societies such as the United States, in which laws were enacted by elected representatives and not decreed by a monarch or dictator. ...
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• Libby Purves on the Irish Catholic Church: The Church protected itself, not its children

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  If possible the evidence is even more damning. The accounts of rape, assault and beatings are familiar but almost worse — because cooler, more institutional, more deliberate — is the detail of the cover-up. To quote the report, the archdiocese remained wedded to “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of ...
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• Tiger Woods: Torn Between Two Lovers? 911 Call (Audio) + Alleged Mistress Seeks Attorney

  
  Straight from the "A" [SFTA] ~ Adventures of an ATLien! — Authority: 550
  In addition to all the drama surrounding Tiger Woods recent car accident, he may actually be torn between two lovers. Tiger has been said to be getting a bit of side action and it looks like his wife, Elin Nordegren-Woods ain’t havin it. The two have faced media scrutiny this entire weekend after Tiger was ...
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• England and Welsh Bishops: chief prosecutor is ignoring will of Parliament on assisted suicide

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  he bishops of England and Wales have accused Britains chief prosecutor of encouraging people to break the countrys suicide laws. They said Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), was creating categories of people whose lives would be legally considered less worthy of protection than those of others ...
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• Washington Post Calls for Abolition of Solitary Confinement

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 423
  An editorial in Saturday’s Washington Post , called “Solitary Disgrace,” calls for an end to the widespread use of long-term lockdown in America’s prisons and jails. The Post ’s editors write : At one time shunned in the United States, solitary confinement is becoming a tool increasingly used by ...
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• Ahmedabad man finds image of liquor bottle on bottom of iron

  
  Faking News — Authority: 428
  Ahmedabad. India is no stranger to religious images appearing on walls, goats, trees and all kinds of other things, but this could well be the first case of an image of liquor bottle appearing on anything. And the incident has taken place in the state of Gujarat where consumption of liquor is prohibited. Vijay Modi, ...
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• NY City detectorists needs everyones help.

  
  TreasureNet Forum — Authority: 199
  Pleae take action on this. It could be coming to a park near you next! A CALL TO ARMS Phone & Email Campaign Commencing Monday November 30th, 2009 If you own a metal detector or know anyone who does, your voice needs to be heard.     TO: Fellow Enthusiasts who enjoy the lawful hobby of recreational metal ...
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• Andrew Ross Sorkin: Beware the Result of Outrage

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  The Federal Reserve, which has printed money in exchange for assets from the nation’s banks, has long operated opaquely. It is virtually impossible to size up its balance sheet. So on its face, the [Ron] Paul amendment seems well intended. After all, who can argue with a little more sunlight? But consider these ...
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• The Economist—Curbs on the Fed’s independence are advancing through Congress

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  The animus towards the Fed is striking, considering that its unprecedented market interventions almost certainly averted a financial meltdown last year and a far more severe recession. But many congressmen care less about the disaster avoided than the injustice of bailed-out bankers taking home record bonuses as ...
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• Yasmin Hide Deadly Side Effects for Young, Healthy Women

  
  Raster Gang — Authority: 133
  Research executed on healthy, premenopausal women in the Netherlands specified that Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella (Yaz generic) suffered an inflated risk of venous thrombosis as compared to non-users. The risks were increased as high as five times with oral contraceptives. These studies were published in August 2009. This ...
  2 days ago

• Criminal enterprise ACORN has cronies in high places

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 438
  The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group, The New York Times reports . The opinion was signed by David Barron, the acting ...
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• Christian-Muslim rift widens over Kenya’s draft law

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  The publication of a draft constitution for Kenya, recognising the presence of Muslim civil courts known as the Kadhi courts, has once again widened the Christian-Muslim split in the East African nation. Kenyan Church leaders have dismissed the creation of the Kadhi Courts, as currently proposed in the draft ...
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• The costly Court Tower of Babel

  
  Seeing Red AZ — Authority: 438
  Barbara Rodriguez Mundell, presiding judge of Maricopa County Superior Court, has written a My Turn column for the daily, in which she heaps accolades on the new and innovative 16-story  criminal court tower . Mundell never mentions the cost, but does enthuse over the consultants who ensure victims’ ...
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• Re: Has congress gone nuts

  
  TreasureNet Forum — Authority: 199
  "Has congress gone nuts" Yes. I wonder if I could take up residency in another country and then sneak into the U.S. to take advantage of the proposed legislation.
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• N.J. Catholic bishops instructing priests to read, distribute letter denouncing same-sex marriage

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  Catholic bishops in the state are instructing priests to read or distribute a letter this weekend asking Catholics to pray that lawmakers in New Jersey not allow same-sex marriage in New Jersey. It remains unclear whether legislators will vote on the issue during the current lame-duck session. Gov. John Corzine ...
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