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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students’ ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.
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Yesterday, the first female mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, went on trial accused of stealing gift cards meant for the poor and using them to fund lavish shopping...
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In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
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Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
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Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key...
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Congress today is without a doubt an elite institution. A new survey states that 44% members of Congress are millionaires compared to 1% of the American public.
That...
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The issue of abortion is a slippery slope. I do not, in any way, condone it as a form of birth control, nor do I condone late term abortions. However, in cases of...
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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
In an interview with Sky News...
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Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
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Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break...
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A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-year-old Margarita...
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A special award for hypocrisy and phony outrage has to go to the Anti-Defamation League. The organization exists ostensibly to combat anti-Semitism, but is now nothing...
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There isn’t a more prominent voice amongst the American Eastablishment than New York Times columnist Tom Friedman (I personally have very low regard for the man)....
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I don’t ever recall being so jaded and skeptical when I was growing up. Something terrible would happen and the initial shock and outrage turned to sadness. I...
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The following link gives the story of the shooting in American military base, Ft. Wood. The American nation is in such a trauma, that they are censoring the news, a...
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The Ft. Hood massacre is a national tragedy. Unfortunately, the United States is all too familiar with shoting rampages. Just yesterday, an unemployed man shot and...
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
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The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most phony organizations in the world. Ostensibly committed to fighting bigotry, it has become a bigoted organization. Its sole...
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Yesterday I was driving to work when I heard about the standoff between three unidentified gunmen and the US army. This was happening not at some university, hospital,...
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Arlington Cemetery is the closest thing to holy ground in America. A national monument it is the nation’s most important military burial ground.
A new book - On...
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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once...
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The Ft. Hood massacre is a national tragedy. Unfortunately, the United States is all too familiar with shoting rampages. Just yesterday, an unemployed man shot and...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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“Renowned yoga guru Swami Ramdev Tuesday sought to promote his method of keeping fit and dispel misconceptions about it at the gathering of clerics and followers...
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Beyond its excellence in watch-making and financial services, Switzerland is still a retrograde nation in many ways. This neutral and very wealthy state did not give...
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NEW DELHI: Muslims will not be singing Vande Mataram as some verses violate the Islam’s faith in Allah is the fatwa released from the Jamiat -e-Ulema-e-Hind by their...
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C’Mon...Its just a song. I think one does not need to worship nation. If you say “Bharat Mata”, a country does not become your mother. Its a way of...
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Malaysian authorities have confiscated more than 15,000 Bibles in recent months because they referred to “God” as “Allah,” a translation that...
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Militants who control parts of Somalia’s capital city are beating women in broad daylight for violating their radical brand of Islamic law, according to local...
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[Author’s Note: This story was sparked by a prior one I wrote, so forgive me for the borrowing of the introduction].
Recent years have a renaissance in Islamic...
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The first Mosque was built by the first community of Muslims (umma) in Medina el-Nabi (City of the Prophet) near the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
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France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism.
They include everybody receiving lessons in...
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In Malaysia’s current political climate, it is no longer possible to distinguish Islamic radicals from Islamic moderates. Despite official boasting about the...
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Almost all of 77 million people in Turkey are Muslim, but signs of Islamic faith are noticeably divorced from everyday life. But a growing number of Turks are joining...
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Muslims have been ordered to withdraw their children from Catholic-run schools in protest at the church’s Hijab ban.
Sheikh Mohammed Dor said the church’s...
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A recent article in The Economist on the state of education in the Arab world does not make for pleasant reading. The Arabs fall behind most of the rest of the world in...
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Freshman Florida Congressman Alan Grayson aspires to be the new famed Louisiana Governor Huey Long. And like his late idol, he is also big and stupid and seeks to...
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The Russia’s scientists and theologians are surprised with the spontaneous emergence of inscriptions on the body of a toddler of Dagestan.
According to European...
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More than a year after he was forced to disown his Chicago pastor, President Obama has begun to attend services led by a Christian chaplain who views Islam as a violent...
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Here’s an interesting game to play, If a Muslim.... Read some story in the press about this or that all-American committing some heinous act and then ask...
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