Daley says he will not run for re-election
Daley announces he will not seek re election View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Daley announces he will not seek re election View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Fisk University is on the brink. The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus where poet Nikki Giovanni, historian John Hope Franklin, and educator and activist W.E.B. Du Bois were educated has been mortgaged. Fisk President Hazel [Continue]
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point this Labor Day: an SEIU executive vice president earlier this year said immigration reform could add 8 million Democrat voters. Thoughts???? View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
VIENNA In an unusually blunt warning, the U.N. atomic agency said Monday that its monitoring of Iran's nuclear activities is being hampered because Tehran objects to giving some agency inspectors access to its program. The complaint by the International Atomic Energy Agency was made in a restricted report on Iran made available to The [Continue]
LONDON, Sept. 5 (UPI) — The most senior Roman Catholic clergyman in Britain says the BBC is biased against "Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular." Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, said news coverage on the autonomous public service broadcaster is contaminated by "a [Continue]
BIBLE SAYS FAITH AND WORKS NEEDED FOR SALVATION Sal Ciresi During the Protestant Reformation in the early 1500s, a familiar term regarding salvation was "sola fide," Latin for "by faith alone." The reformers, at that time, accused the Catholic Church of departing from the "simple purity of the Gospel" of Jesus Christ. [Continue]
Agnostic regarding birthcertifigate, but the punchline here is interesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB–XdoZ0ZI View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Jerry Brown says he'd be a frugal governorCarla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer September 3, 2010 07:33 PM (09-03) 19:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to "do things that labor doesn't like," including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor [Continue]
Jerry Brown says he'd be a frugal governorCarla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer September 3, 2010 07:33 PM (09-03) 19:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to "do things that labor doesn't like," including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor [Continue]
Jerry Brown says he'd be a frugal governorCarla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer September 3, 2010 07:33 PM (09-03) 19:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Brown said Friday that if elected governor he would have to "do things that labor doesn't like," including cutting pension benefits for public employees and asking labor [Continue]
The military judge who curiously noted without explanation that uncovering evidence about President Obama's birth records could prove "embarrassing" and denied an officer the right to obtain potentially exculpatory evidence in a court-martial simply has forgotten the Constitution, the supreme rule of the United States. So says Judge [Continue]
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said. report on link and below View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
SAN RAFAEL, CA (KGO) — The Marin County Sheriff's Department says a deputy fired his Taser at 64-year-old Peter McFarland at his home in June 2009 because McFarland "charged at deputies." View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted Phoenix, Ariz., Sep 3, 2010 / 05:54 am (CNA).- The Catholic Bishop of Phoenix responded Wednesday to a priests reported participation in an attempted priestly ordination of a woman. Urging prayers for all involved, he said such actions are divisive and have profoundly harmful [Continue]
The military has arrested Air Force Sgt. David Gutierrez, a 20-year military veteran accused of having unprotected sex with partners he met at "swinger" parties in central Kansas, even though he knew he was HIV positive. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations said Tuesday the 43-year-old airman has not been charged but was [Continue]