UPDATE: — The Waukesha County clerk announced that the vote total announced for Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race had been mistaken — The new total puts Prosser on a significant path to victory, about 7,500 votes ahead of Kloppenburg. Sad outcome. Will the energy that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bill of Rights’
April 2nd, 2011 - 3:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Glen Beck Opposes Slavery
From Huff Post: Glenn Beck exploded at Chris Matthews for his comments denigrating Michele Bachmann and her views of American history. Matthews called Bachmann a “balloon head” on Tuesday for saying that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly to end slavery.” He noted that, [...]
March 10th, 2011 - 11:38 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Lyman Bradley … why the courage of a faculty is essential to academic freedom.
In the 50’s, before being targeted by the House Unamerican Affairs Committee, Professor Lyman Bradley was chair of Germanic Studies at NYU and a major scholar in German literature. After losing his job and being sentenced to prison, when Lyman R. Bradley applied for a passport in 1961, [...]
March 8th, 2011 - 6:51 am § in Uncategorized
Web Freedom
I think the time has come for a constitutional amendment adding freedom of the web to our existing first amendment rights. My immediate reason for this came from the mess last week when Gmail went down: As most of those affected by the Gmail outage return to their inboxes, a lingering sense of uneas[...]
March 5th, 2011 - 4:11 am § in Uncategorized
Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera ‘Real News,’ U.S. losing “information war”
Despite an embargo by the corporate cable systems, as Secretary Clinton noted, “Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news, like it or hate it, it is really effective.” Clinton speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.[...]
First Amendment vs. Congress
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world, reassures us that “In God We Trust” is safe . . . for now. “The United States Court of Appeals for the Ni[...]
February 26th, 2011 - 1:39 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
Selling People
Black market for Indonesian maids thrives in Makkah MAKKAH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: The black market for Indonesian domestic workers in Makkah has received a boost after the recruitment of workers from Indonesia was recently suspended. CLICK IMAGE for shocking video.[...]
February 6th, 2011 - 11:36 am § in Politics
Al Qaeda’s Odd Silence on Egypt
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we are seeing the dawn of the first Arab democracy? There is an historic irony here. Islam’s explosion out of Arabia under Umar, was more than a military conquest. The Byzantine empire was a rotten relic of Rome. It fell to a more rational, more “modern&[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 11:25 am § in Schools & Colleges
Condoleezza Rice: Are the Dreams of American Education Coming to an End?
Condoleezza Rice on what is happening to education in the US: “Today, I’m concerned about this [inequality] when I can look at the zip code and tell whether or not you’re going to get a good education. This is terrifying,” ……“As an educator, it’s the lost potential, as a R[...]
November 28th, 2010 - 6:13 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
Can governments legislate truth?
What happens when the government tries to legislate truth? I find the debate over medical marijuana very disturbing to my belief that our society can be a society of laws. The problem, as I see it, is that the laws prohibiting use of marijuana are not based on facts. That law claims that MJ is [&hel[...]