Tag: human rights
member name: Duane B.
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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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March 21, 2006 01:38 PM EST --
First, let's get the bad news out of the way:
Poppy production is in full bloom (please excuse the pun). Estimates are that up to 90% of the world's heroin will be produced by this country . . .
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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 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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December 07, 2007 09:40 AM EST --
Recently the CBS program Sixty Minutes ran a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians still living in Iraq. Since our invasion of Iraq the minority Christian . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:58 PM EST --
The recent decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court stating that homosexual couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples and giving the New Jersey Legislature six months . . .
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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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September 20, 2006 11:56 AM EDT --
An official Canadian commission has found that a Canadian computer specialist of Syrian birth, Maher Arar, had no ties to any terrorist groups or individuals. Arar claims . . .
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September 03, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
CNN presented a three part series entitled God’s Warriors researched and reported by their award-winning Chief Foreign Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. This series deals with the . . .
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September 23, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
Men and women of short stature have, and continue to, make remarkable contributions in every area of human endeavor. A person's height indicates nothing about their intellect, wisdom, or any other . . .
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October 12, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
A recent outbreak in whooping cough cases in the US has brought the controversy over childhood vaccinations to our attentions once again. In 1976 1,020 cases of whooping cough were reported in the . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:58 PM EST --
There is a great deal of discussion today about the goal of ending global poverty. It is estimated that 2.5 billion of the world’s population of 6.5 billion, almost 40%, try . . .
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December 30, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
Prior to the recent Annapolis peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, stated that the creation "of a Palestinian . . .
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December 31, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
We rarely see a person with a physical illness or injury that is offered treatment and refuses. In fact, we know that that are literally millions of Americans who have physical . . .
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March 23, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
A recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life shows that almost 40% of Americans have changed their religion since their childhood, with a growing number dropping any religious . . .
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April 26, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
The Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act commonly referred to as the RICO laws that were originally used to prosecute organized crime activities have in recent years been . . .
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August 26, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
The California Senate approved a bill to permit the distribution of condoms in California jails if signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. Opponents of the bill claim that the distribution of . . .
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October 25, 2006 10:31 AM EDT --
I recently received an unsolicited email from a person I don't know that is a member of a national organization I belong too. It contained some of the most virulent anti-Semitic . . .
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November 02, 2006 08:51 AM EST --
An Ethiopian immigrant living in Lawrenceville, Georgia has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the genital mutilation of his daughter in 2001 when she was two years old. The man . . .
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February 11, 2007 10:17 AM EST --
A Washington State group is reacting to a July 2006 State Supreme Court decision that ruled that there is a “legitimate state interest” in limiting marriage to those persons who can . . .
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