Source: The Economist: The way to determine whether the government is impermissibly “endorsing” religion, the courts later decided, is not to canvass actual citizens but to imagine how a reasonable observer would look upon a creche, a ten commandments display, a cross or a Jesus statue. Over the past generation, as the endorsement test has […]
Source: The Economist: WHEN the United Nations was created after the second world war, it was “an era of secular international relations and few if any anticipated that religion would ever again be an important international actor.” However, as Professor Jeffrey Haynes of London Metropolitan University goes on to show […]
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed a few days ago when I came across a picture of the new billboard in Times Square. If you’re one of the approximately […]
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed a few days ago when I came across a picture of the new billboard in Times Square. If you’re one of the approximately […]
By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The escalator to the theater at the Gateway shopping center is packed on a Saturday night with families and couples and groups of kids. On the plaza at the bottom, a small crowd has formed around two boys playing footbag […]
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) believes that we’re living in the End Times — and she claims to have proof. In an interview Saturday with Jan Markell on the Christian radio program “Understanding the Times,” Bachmann accused President Barack Obama of giving aid to terrorists. This, she says, is solid evidence […]
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) believes that we’re living in the End Times — and she claims to have proof. In an interview Saturday with Jan Markell on the Christian radio program “Understanding the Times,” Bachmann accused President Barack Obama of giving aid to terrorists. This, she says, is solid evidence […]
Washington Post: ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jennifer Haselberger tried to ring alarm bells at the top ranks of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese when she found evidence pointing to recent, troubling behavior by two priests — including pornographic images on one priest’s computers discs and documents suggesting the other was addicted […]
In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan 68 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for […]
Source: thestarphoenix.com Ground has been broken for a $6-million, 27,000 squarefoot mosque on Saskatoon’s eastern edge, and an official hopes it will foster goodwill among all religions and cultures. “We hope […]
Source: thestarphoenix.com Ground has been broken for a $6-million, 27,000 squarefoot mosque on Saskatoon’s eastern edge, and an official hopes it will foster goodwill among all religions and cultures. “We hope […]
Source: thehoya.com This October, Washington, D.C., is celebrating its eighth Islamic Heritage Month. “It helps Americans as a whole to know that Muslims have been a part of American society since the conception of America,” America’s Islamic Heritage Museum President and Curator Amir Muhammad said. “Throughout America, people acknowledge and celebrate […]
By Jonathan Vankin, Recently, a self-styled “pastor” in Florida sparked a worldwide controversy by threatening to burn copies of the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book. But he was far from […]
By Jonathan Vankin Recently, a self-styled “pastor” in Florida sparked a worldwide controversy by threatening to burn copies of the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book. But he was far from […]
We learnt that any time you read a quote that sounded violent or sexist, people guessed it was from the Koran. Most of those quotes were from the Bible. NY […]
DETROIT — This city is learning that it is expensive to go broke. Even as it wrestles with the $18 billion of debt that has overwhelmed it, Detroit has already been billed more than $19.1 million by firms hired to sort through that debt, search for ways to restructure it, […]
Source: Stratfor: By George Friedman In general, Stratfor deals with U.S. domestic politics only to the extent that it affects international affairs. Certainly, this topic has been argued and analyzed extensively. Nevertheless, the shutdown of the American government is a topic that must be understood from our point of view, […]
uwosh.edu: A member of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Administrative Services team will receive a UW System award honoring women of color on Oct. 19 in Madison. Raazia Riffat, who began serving with UW Oshkosh’s Risk Management team in 2011 and, most recently, served as the University’s internal auditor, will […]
Source: NY Times: The basic outlines of poverty in America are sadly familiar. At last count, 46.5 million people were poor — 15 percent of the population. Women and children, especially in single-mother families, were, as always, hit hardes. More:
Source: Morocco World News: STOCKHOLM – The 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three Americans – James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and German-born Thomas C. Sudhof – for their discoveries of machinery regulating a major transport system in the body’s cells. More: