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Town split over teacher who burned crosses into students’ arms
From MSNBC.com
Demonstrations on the town square show how divided people are over the school board’s decision to fire a science teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs in the classroom and burning crosses on students’ arms.
John Freshwater, 52, was fired last month after an outside consulting firm released a report concluding that he taught […] -
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Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded
07.03.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsPersonally I’m not really a fan of Christopher Hitchens so I enjoyed this a little too much:
Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of “extreme interrogation” and […] -
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Exorcism is protected by law
From MSNBC”
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday threw out a jury award over injuries a 17-year-old girl suffered in an exorcism conducted by members of her old church, ruling that the case unconstitutionally entangled the court in religious matters.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices found that a lower court erred when it said the Pleasant […] -
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List of superstitions McCain believes in
From Crooks and Liars
Consider what we’ve learned about McCain’s superstitions:
* McCain believes it’s bad luck for someone to hand him a salt shaker.
* McCain believes it’s bad luck to throw a hat onto a bed.
* McCain regularly carries 31 cents in lucky change in his pocket.
* McCain carries a lucky feather, a lucky compass, a […] -
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Canada Executing its Citizens Through Proxy
03.26.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsA young man in Saudi Arabia is less than a month away from being beheaded for his part in a school yard brawl that ended with the death of an 18 year old student. Mohamed Kohail, who is a Canadian citizen, is only a few days from the chopping block, and Canada is seriously […]
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The Fear Card
03.24.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsIf I told you that large groups of fundamentalists were threatening to commit acts of terror over the release of a simple movie criticizing Islam and the Koran, I’m sure none of you would be surprised. We take this kind of ridiculousness for granted now. You can’t release a cartoon, a book, or a documentary […]
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