Canadian transgender model may get clearance to compete in Miss Universe. Controversial 'One State Under God' license plate goes on sale in Texas. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles A license plate that declares Texas "One State Under God" went on sale this week, despite an outcry from critics who say government tags shouldn't be endorsing religion.
‘Girl Gone Wild’ Video: Madonna Has Ukrainian Friends, Cool Elbow Pads. Beware the secular atheocracy. In a recent column, The Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders tackled British Baroness Warsi’s concern for the place of faith in the public square head on, concluding that “the problem in public life isn’t Islam, it’s religion itself.”
This came about because the baroness, a Muslim who is chair of Britain’s Conservative Party and a cabinet minister in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government, is at odds with a recent High Court ruling that the practice of prayer during municipal council meetings (and, by extension, in Parliament itself) is unconstitutional. Rivkin and Whelan: Birth-Control Mandate—Unconstitutional and Illegal.
Philadelphia Mayor On Teen Violence: This Nonsense Must Stop. Posted on August 10, 2011 Speaking at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter discusses recent teen violence in the city.
"This nonsense must stop," he said, calling on parents to "get your act together" and telling trouble-making young people to "stop acting like idiots and fools. " He closes with a message to African American young people: Wall St. hypocrites. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and his fellow Wall Street travelers yes terday released a letter warning that unless Congress and the president agree on a budget deal and raise the debt ceiling, the apocalypse will befall us next Tuesday — when the country, according to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, is scheduled to run out of money.
Funny — anybody recall the last time Wall Street’s head honchos were warning about “grave” consequences? It came nearly three years ago, when the heads of the big Wall Street firms were running around Washington begging for a taxpayer bailout of their massive losses from risky trades gone bad — or else the country would go into something close to a depression. As we’re all painfully aware, Washington did indeed bail them out — saving the likes of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and JP Morgan from imminent collapse.
But the country wasn’t quite saved from serious economic pain. New Jersey School District Yanks Lesbian Sex Book From Required Summer Reading List. Norwegian Wood was one of the books A New Jersey school district has apologized to parents after requiring high school students to read books that include graphic depictions of lesbian sex and a homosexual orgy.
“Some of the language is inappropriate,” said Chuck Earling, superintendent of Monroe Township Schools in Williamstown, N.J. “We were not trying to create controversy. We were just trying to get students to read.” The books were on a required summer reading list for middle school and high school students. Obama showing blacks how Big Government failed them. The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants - Megan McArdle - Business. Glen Whitman asks why there are fewer startlingly beautiful flight attendants any more: For an economist, the most fascinating aspect of Pan Am is the highly attractive flight attendants -- or rather, stewardesses, since the show is set in the early 1960s.
If you're young enough, you might think that's just TV. But I'm just old enough to remember flying in the 1970s, and I recall stewardesses who really were, in fact, hot. Okay, I was too young to understand the concept of "hot" -- but I was definitely aware that I was being attended by some very pretty young women.Not so anymore. Controversial Therapy For Pre-Teen Transgender Patient Raises Questions.
Young Tommy Lobel, of Oakland, CA before beginning his transition to becoming a girl.
A lesbian couple in California who say their 11-year-old son Tommy who wants to be a girl named Tammy are giving their child hormone blockers that delay the onset of puberty -- so that he can have more time that he can have more time to decide if he wants to change his gender. The couple’s supporters say the Hormone Blocking Therapy has only minor side effects and is appropriate for a child who is unsure of his gender.
"This is definitely a changing landscape for transgender youth," said Joel Baum, director of education and training for Gender Spectrum, a California-based non-profit group. "This is about giving kids and their families the opportunity to make the right decision. " The War on Lemonade - Rich Lowry. Billionaire George Soros sued by ex-girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr for reneging on promise of real estate. ON THE OUTS: A suit claims Soros agreed to buy a luxe pad at posh 30 E. 85th St.
(above). (Gabriella Bass) A beautiful Brazilian soap star has the lead role in her own daytime drama, which casts George Soros, the billionaire financier of lefty causes, as a heavy who not only broke her heart, but also reneged on a promise to give her an Upper East Side apartment worth $1.9 million. The drama will be staged in Manhattan Supreme Court, where 28-year-old Adriana Ferreyr yesterday filed a blockbuster $50 million suit charging, among other things, that the frisky octogenarian slapped her around while they were in bed discussing his real-estate betrayal.
Questions Arise Over Whether 'Flash Mob' Attacks in U.S. Cities Motivated by Race - FoxNews.com. Police departments in several cities around the country are investigating what appear to be incidents of "flash mob"-generated violence, in which packs of dozens or even hundreds of youths appear seemingly out of nowhere to commit assaults, robberies and other crimes against innocent bystanders.
The motive and circumstances surrounding the attacks that have resulted in numerous arrests around the country are being investigated -- and law enforcement officials in at least one city are looking into a possible racial component to the crimes. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who recently imposed a stricter curfew in response to the city's latest attack, addressed black youths directly from the pulpit of his church on Sunday, reportedly saying, “You have damaged your own race.” Improving Mexican economy draws undocumented immigrants home from California - Sacramento City News. Ad Campaign Pokes Fun at Latino Stereotypes. New Roles for Transgender Performers.
'SlutWalk' Comes To South Africa, Where Rape Is Crisis. Which parents really regret their baby's names? Probably not Gwyneth Paltrow. Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography. Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline - Photo Essays. Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. In December 2001, the old Highland Park police department in Detroit was temporarily disbanded.
Philadelphia Mayor On Teen Violence: This Nonsense Must Stop. Should Schools Go Back to 1983 Technology? Hooded penitents take part in Holy Week processions in Spain. Raúl Ruiz’s ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ A masterly tale about lives and stories and the art of their telling, “Mysteries of Lisbon” is also an elegiac meditation on love lost and rediscovered through misted memory. Directed by the Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and set mainly in Portugal, with detours to other European corners, it is a period picture based on a work by the prolific Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-90), who was born in Lisbon, illegitimate and orphaned, and flirted with the priesthood before finding his calling in writing, running off with a married woman, landing in prison and finally committing suicide.
Mr. The Book Bench: A. C. Grayling Smoked Out. Last month, I wrote about the British philosopher A.C.
Grayling’s “The Good Book: A Humanist Bible.” Where, I wondered, was the church to go along with his holy text? Yes, he belonged to a university, but those are exclusive institutions: didn’t Grayling want his message to reach the masses? This weekend, I got my answer: not really. On Sunday, Grayling announced plans to launch a new, privately funded liberal-arts college in London called the New College of the Humanities (first incorporated as “Grayling Hall”), which will charge students eighteen thousand pounds (about thirty thousand dollars) a year, twice what Oxford and Cambridge charge. Nicholson Baker’s Dirty Mind. Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley. In 2007, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, knew that he needed help.
Happy Birthday Eminem, Here's Every Celebrity You've Ever Dissed - Jason Richards - Entertainment. The Cohabitation Revolution - Rich Lowry. We Must Be Superstars. Overworked America: 12 Charts that Will Make Your Blood Boil. Looking for news you can trust? Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet. Space Aliens Are Probably Progressive Liberals - By Daniel Foster. Henninger: America as Less Than No. 1. Whole Foods: "We Should Not Highlight Ramadan" - UPDATED - Houston Restaurants and Dining - Eating Our Words.
UPDATE: View the original, unedited internal email from Whole Foods. Under pressure from right-wing bloggers who blindly associate Ramadan and Muslims with terrorism and burqas, Whole Foods has sent an email to its stores across the United States in which it specifically tells stores not to promote Ramadan this year. Just last week, Whole Foods began its promotion of Saffron Road's line of halal products throughout the holiday, which ends on August 29, via writer Yvonne Maffei's blog, My Halal Kitchen. That promotion was waylaid by what seems like a very small amount of criticism, according to an internal email that the Houston Press obtained recently. A society in need of rehab.