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The perennial conflict between church and state has its roots in the founding principles and governing documents of America. On one side of this conflict are Christian fundamentalists who argue that the tradition of America is that of Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in Europe to establish a country where the practices and symbols of… Read more.
Dennis “BTK” Rader: Looking like the psychopathic serial killer he is! For a while yesterday, the cold-blooded but riveting confession of serial killer Dennis Rader competed with the regurgitation of idle speculation and overwrought comments about (missing in Aruba) Natalee Holloway for air time on TV. But here at last was TV coverage worthy of… Read more.
About 2 months ago, I wrote a fairly comprehensive commentary on the EU plan to cut its banana trade regime. The regime was implemented in the early 1990s to guarantee a market for all the bananas former European colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) could export whilst placing quotas on the amount… Read more.
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Talk Show Billionaire Oprah Winfrey told by Hermes of Paris to take her money and shove it! Poor Oprah: Last week Luxury retailer Hermes refused to allow her into its Paris boutique to do a little last-minute shopping – something Oprah knows well that white celebrities do routinely all over the world. Of course, most… Read more.
During her meetings last Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured him that his plan to bulldoze the homes of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip was a necessary “historic” step towards the establishment of a Palestinian state and peace in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, President… Read more.
What took them so long…the jury that is? Michael Schwerner, 24, of New York, James Chaney, 21, from Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York are profiles in courage and remain the haunting images of murderous racism in recent American history that claimed the lives of so many innocent and courageous people involved in… Read more.
Grieving Moms Anita Van Der Sloot and Beth Holloway Twitty bid each other a pained good-bye after Holloway went unannounced to Van Der Sloot’s home in Aruba demanding to know what her son Juron (the prime suspect) did to Natalee. No doubt most American Moms in Van Der Sloot’s predicament would’ve called the police to… Read more.
Reflecting the sentiments of a critical mass amongst their citizens, it seems that European Heads of State have also become disaffected (if not disillusioned) with the prospect of ceding more national authority to the EU central government (Brussels). After all, their dramatic failure last weekend to agree on a budget to fund EU operations and… Read more.
