Torture, christians like it. How The ACLU Didn't Steal Christmas. Share December 7, 2005 By Fran Quigley />When the angry phone calls and emails started arriving at the office, I knew the holiday season was upon us. A typical message shouted that we at the American Civil Liberties Union are "horrible" and "we should be ashamed of ourselves," and then concluded with an incongruous and agitated "Merry Christmas.
" We get this type of correspondence a lot, mostly in reaction to a well-organized attempt by extremist groups to demonize the ACLU, crush religious diversity, and make a few bucks in the process. Sadly, this self-interested effort is being promoted in the guise of defending Christmas. For example, the Alliance Defense Fund celebrates the season with an "It's OK to say Merry Christmas" campaign, implying that the ACLU has challenged such holiday greetings. Of course, there is no "Merry Christmas" lawsuit, nor is there any ACLU litigation about U.S. currency, military chaplains, etc. That's what the ACLU does. Daylight Atheism > Why I Am Not a Libertarian.
The Pain. Blame The Libertarians. Listeners call for tattooing of Muslims in America, supporting comedy skit. Saturday, December 9, 2006 When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo,"the switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes. " Some callers agreed with Klein, one saying that, "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us. " Another caller added that America should, "set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans" At the end of the show Klein revealed that that it had been staged as a hoax. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his AM 630 WMAL audience which covers Washington D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland "For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting.
It's beyond disgusting. " Sources. Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism? Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace. Where there's water, life is possible. True, it may be very difficult and very hard to live, depending, but anyone who's driven, hiked, or camped in the American South West will have noticed that cities and ranches crop up where there's surface water or where there's been a well dug. Within the state of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, there are deserts, mesas, mountains, and forests where normally people never or rarely visit; not-so-secret places where there's water, access to a road within a day's hike, and where a fairly rugged individual may hide while remaining basically healthy, marginally well fed, and reasonably sane.
In this section I'll look at two such environments, neither of which I would recommend, but one of which I'd suggest is a reasonable way to live in basic health while either on the run, hiding out from the law, old girl friends, the draft for an illegal war, putative wives and such. Where exactly? How I Would Do It Some Other Areas. Double Standards. AP photographer's last pre-arrest shot is a stunner. AP/Matt Rourke The last image found in Matt Rourke’s camera before he was hauled off. (Click here for larger photo.)
Matt Rourke isn't a lefty media star like Democracy Now's Amy Goodman. The AP photographer's Monday arrest didn't provoke paroxysms of online outrage; there was no sympathy-generating video as in Goodman's case. Unmobbed by interview requests, Rourke quietly returned to work Tuesday after being let out of jail at 2:30 that morning. But Rourke's story is in some ways more outrageous and more amazing than Goodman's seizure. It is also more typical of the dangers working journalists — particularly photojournalists — face covering demonstrations. The story culminates with the stunning photo above — bigger version here — a testimony to Rourke's resourcefulness and tenacity. "I was rolling around, found my camera and was shooting from my back," says Rourke. It's hard not to look at the photo and see why police might've wanted to end Rourke's day.
The Pyramid of Capitalism. Conservative vs. Liberal Beliefs. Compiled by the Editors. Copyright 2005 (revised 2010) StudentNewsDaily.com. We all want the same things in life. We want freedom; we want the chance for prosperity; we want as few people suffering as possible; we want healthy children; we want to have crime-free streets. The argument is how to achieve them… Liberals believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Related comparison page: Socialism vs. And check out our page: 2018 Midterm Election Resources for teachers. NOTE: The terms “left” and “right” define opposite ends of the political spectrum. Abortion LiberalA woman has the right to decide what happens with her body.
ConservativeHuman life begins at conception. Economy. Reasons to be Against the Death Penalty.