By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty sol­diers, sta­tioned at Fort Eustis while attend­ing a train­ing course, were pun­ished for opt­ing out of attend­ing one of these Chris­t­ian con­certs. The head­liner at this con­cert was a Chris­t­ian rock band called Bar­low­Girl, a band that describes itself as tak­ing “an...
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By ole­ole­ol­son (Blogs.Alternet) A group of influ­en­tial con­ser­v­a­tive mem­bers of the behe­moth social media site Digg​.com have just been caught red-​​handed in a wide­spread cam­paign of cen­sor­ship, hav­ing mul­ti­ple accounts, upvote padding, and delib­er­ately try­ing to ban pro­gres­sives. An under­cover inves­ti­ga­tion has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year....
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(CNA/​EWTN News) The Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois has fired an adjunct pro­fes­sor for teach­ing in a class on Catholi­cism that homo­sex­ual acts vio­late nat­ural moral law. Dr. Ken­neth How­ell was informed that he could no longer teach in the university’s depart­ment of reli­gion. The deci­sion came after a stu­dent com­plained that Howell’s state­ments were “hate speech.”...
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On, 'Bloomsday', June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce's book 'Ulysses' takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed 'obscene'), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.
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Amer­i­cans United for Sep­a­ra­tion of Church and State today warned cor­rec­tions offi­cials in three states not to use pub­lic funds to send inmates to a pro­posed “Christians-​​only” prison in Oklahoma. Cor­rec­tions Con­cepts, Inc., has pro­posed build­ing a pri­vate prison in Wakita, Okla., that will indoc­tri­nate pris­on­ers in fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­tian­ity and will be staffed solely...
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By Der­rick Henry (NY Times) Pageant orga­niz­ers on Sun­day night crowned a 24-​​year-​​old Lebanese immi­grant from Michi­gan as Miss USA 2010. Rima Fakih was born in Lebanon, moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York City, where she attended a Catholic school. She told pageant orga­niz­ers her fam­ily cel­e­brates both...
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Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while com­pet­ing with you friends to see who can be the best Amer­i­can? Down­load the Snap­Scouts app for your Android phone (iPhone app com­ing soon) and get started patrolling your neighborhood. It’s up to you to keep Amer­ica safe! If you see some­thing sus­pi­cious, Snap...
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Due to its claimed use in ter­ror­ism, pos­ses­sion of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Com­bat­ant Sta­tus Review Tri­bunal reports and other gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments as a rea­son for these detainees’ con­tin­ued deten­tion. The watch was pop­u­lar all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert fea­tures. Among those listed: Abdul­lah Kamel...
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By Brian Joseph (The Orange County Reg­is­ter) Since mid-​​March, at least 99 writ­ten com­plaints have been sub­mit­ted to state elec­tions offi­cials by Orange County res­i­dents who say they were reg­is­tered to vote Repub­li­can with­out their con­sent. The Reg­is­ter found an addi­tional 74 vot­ers who said they were duped or coerced into reg­is­ter­ing to vote...
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By Died­tra Henderson WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion on Wednes­day approved an implantable com­puter chip that can pass a patient’s med­ical details to doc­tors, speed­ing care. VeriChips, radio fre­quency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to iden­tify way­ward pets and live­stock. And nearly 200 peo­ple work­ing...
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