Category: politics

Global Incident Map Displaying Terrorist Acts, Suspicious Activity, and General Terrorism News

Global Incident Map Displaying Terrorist Acts, Suspicious Activity, and General Terrorism News: —- another interesting mashup.

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US Treaty With Tripoli 1796-97

US Treaty With Tripoli 1796-97: Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act […]

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Modesty Survey :: Main

Modesty Survey :: Main: The Modesty Survey is an exciting, anonymous discussion between Christian guys and girls who care about modesty. Hundreds of Christian girls contributed to the 148-question survey and over 1,600 Christian guys submitted 150,000+ answers, including 25,000 text responses, over a 20-day period in January 2007. —– Paper Daisies and Feministing point […]

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Why the Religious Right Supports Bush | Diatribune

Why the Religious Right Supports Bush | Diatribune: I asked him why he voted for Bush. He said, with a cold, straight face, “To bring about the rapture.” —— scary….

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Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Newly Revealed FBI Data Abuses and the Data Retention Red Flag

Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: Newly Revealed FBI Data Abuses and the Data Retention Red Flag: Broad abuses of retained data are now demonstrated to be real, not theoretical, as described in .this Washington Post story —– Lauren has a nice post outlining some of his insights and furthering his points about the problems of the governments […]

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The New York Nerd » The Smartest Man

The New York Nerd » The Smartest Man: ——- this is not as funny as it should be.

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Top 10 Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian by Heidi Lore

Covert History: 1 – You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history – but still call yourself a Christian.

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Bush Is Not Above the Law – New York Times

Bush Is Not Above the Law – New York Times: To allow a president to break the law and commit a felony for more than five years without even a formal independent investigation would be the ultimate subversion of the Constitution and the rule of law. As Judge Taylor warned in her decision, “There are […]

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Largest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands

Largest archive of free culture to be built in the Netherlands: From the Netherlands, the “Images for the Future” project is building a large-scale conservation and digitization project to make available 285,000 hours of film, television, and radio recordings, as well as more than 2.9 million photos from the Netherlands’ film and television archives. A […]

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Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » “Mother, may I?”

Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » “Mother, may I?”: Should you have to ask for permission from the government before you are allowed to get on a plane or cruise ship? The Department of Homeland Security has proposed that airlines and cruise ships be required to get individual permission (”clearance”) from the DHS for each […]

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