Day: June 5, 2013

The Separation of Church and State in America– Then and Now

Huff Post: A public high school in Muldrow, Oklahoma, recently decided to remove plaques of the Ten Commandments from its classrooms after an atheist student urged the Freedom From Religion Foundation to threaten a lawsuit. The removal of the Decalogue displays offended numerous community members, thereby evoking a prior controversy regarding a Ten Commandments monument placed […]

Comedy of the grotesque

Source: ET It is amazing how fear can induce individuals, groups, even entire societies to lie, dissemble, surrender their will, and hide from the ugly reality. Fear generates pusillanimity, grotesqueries, chicaneries and charlatans. Take the example of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and us. Since a drone strike took out Waliur […]