Jan 16 2011
The brutal truth about Tunisia By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in …
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Dec 23 2010
Why do Jewish groups ignore Beck? By MJ Rosenberg, for Al Jazeera 23 Dec 2010 13:28 GMT … Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called “World To Jews: Drop Dead.” Dead! She …
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Dec 22 2010
The following was adapted from an e-mail conversation with my pastor, following a December 12, 2010 front-page article in the Sentinel Record describing how David Barton was “brought” to Hot Springs by another pastor (who just happens to be the new mayor’s husband) for a rah-rah rally/revival to “energize and educate” Tea Party Republicans who recently routed …
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Dec 01 2010
By Leonard Pitts Jr. [email protected] … We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of America’s mind. It was last seen last month in Oklahoma. There, voters gave emphatic approval to a measure outlawing the use of Sharia law — a strict and often brutal interpretation of Islamic religious strictures — in state courts. …
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Nov 29 2010
C100 Valley-Search The steed of this Valley is patience; without patience the wayfarer on this journey will reach nowhere and attain, no goal… Baha’u’llah (Persian) C101Valley-Love …The steed of this Valley is pain; and if there be no pain this journey will never end… Baha’u’llah (Persian) C102Valley-Knowledge …in the ocean he findeth a drop, in …
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Nov 08 2010
By Sumbul Ali-Karamali, posted at HuffingtonPost.com September 3, 2010. … Hasn’t the whole notion of shariah in America gotten a bit out of control? No, it hasn’t — it’s gotten hugely, obscenely, ignorantly out of control. How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding “NO SHARIA LAW” signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the …
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