Yes, I suppose you have the right to choose not to read the Ten Commandments. But, then again, you also have the right to not have which religion you support chosen for you.
I would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
Where are your facts backing up that assertion?
Good fear...
If Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and those other intolerant American embarrassments must post the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, then every version of the Ten Commandments must be placed in every courthouse. But then it isn't a courthouse anymore -- they become taxpayer-supported churches...
As consumers struggle with high prices at the pump, "Exxon Mobil Co. reported a 45% surge in net income, while Royal Dutch/Shell Group's earnings rose 40%, as persistently high oil prices fed the industrywide profit bonanza."
In his videotaped statement for Justice Sunday, Senate Majority leader Bill Frist "singled out Judge Priscilla Owen, one of the blocked appeals court nominees, for praise in the telecast." Many believe that Frist's specific mention of Owen suggests "she may become the contested nominee at the...
Last week, some savvy Time Magazine readers caught House leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) smoking a Cuban cigar in a photo taken in Jerusalem. The problem? DeLay has voiced some strong feelings about people who engage in such behavior. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay...
Meet Carlos Lazo. Lazo arrived from Cuba on a wooden raft in 1992, as he writes in the Los Angeles Times, "to taste freedom." His family, whom he continued to visit and support financially, remained in Cuba. Moving to Seattle, Lazo joined the National Guard after the state was hit by an...
If it's the Democrats that you are referring to about "[t]hose people who love liberty," then I suppose that, yes, they are irritating to the Republicans who are looking to do away with any liberty there might be left to have had in this country.
"Unfortunately, we are seeing a disturbing pattern, where too often judicial confirmations are being turned into ideological battles.... They seek to undermine the nominations of candidates who agree with my philosophy that judges should interpret the law, not try to make law from the bench."...
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is determined to stack the Supreme Court with extremist judges. Yesterday, Minority Leader Harry Reid offered Frist an astonishingly generous compromise on judicial nominations to federal circuit courts, which would have allowed up to four of the seven stalled...
Thanks to LDI, I am now, even though I live in Michigan, going to sign up for a two year subscription to the Portland Mercury. Thanks, LDI, for directing me to such a wonderful publication!
"Too much politics in Washington, D.C. There's too many people saying, well we can't work with this group because it might help them get an upper hand, or can't work with that crowd because they might get an upper hand. We've got to rise above the politics ."
President Bush, 4/26/05...