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Interesting

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:29:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: article wouldn't clip......see it here

http://www.govpro.com/News/Article/31439/

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Study Ranks America’s Most Liberal and Conservative Cities

A new nationwide study released by the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting Research (BACVR) ranks the political leanings of every American city and finds that Detroit, Michigan is the most liberal and Provo, Utah the most conservative.

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Jesse Jackson disses Obama

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:45:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ouch.....

Clip Source: cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com

Jackson apologizes for Obama words

NEW YORK (CNN) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for “crude and hurtful” remarks he made against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after finishing an interview with a Fox News correspondent.

Jackson told CNN that the interview had wrapped up and he didn’t realize his remarks were captured by a “hot” microphone.

Jackson didn’t elaborate on the context of his remarks, except to say he was trying to explain that Obama was hurting his relationship with black voters by recently conducting “moral” lectures at African-American churches.

“My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility,” Jackson said in a statement issued Tuesday afternoon.

Tags: hot mic, jesse jackson, politics, apology, obama

Good: Case Dismissed

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:47:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ctv.ca

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has dismissed a Muslim group's complaint against Maclean's magazine.

The Canadian Islamic Congress had argued the magazine published an article in October 2006 that would likely expose Muslims to hatred and contempt.

The article, entitled "The Future Belongs to Islam," by Mark Steyn claimed that Muslims are on the verge of dominating Europe and the West because of a demographic shift.

The article claims that their greater numbers will eventually allow Muslims to dominate Western countries. The article goes so far as to quote a European imam who allegedly said Muslims are reproducing like "mosquitoes."

While commentators have said Steyn's demographic claims are way off-base, the CHRC concluded the views in the article, "when considered as a whole and in context, are not of an extreme nature, as defined by the Supreme Court."

Tags: whew, politics, canada, mark steyn, macleans

Amis and Islam

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:44:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good read about the spat involving Amis over comments he made re: islam

Enjoy

Clip Source: www.samharris.org

By RACHEL DONADIO

March 9, 2008

“I’m a passionate multiracialist and a very poor multiculturalist,” Martin Amis said a few weeks ago. He was on the phone from London, praising his hometown’s ethnic variety — “It’s exhilarating and moving to live in a city with so many races and so many colors” — and denouncing its fissures, particularly over radical Islam. “I don’t think that we can accommodate cultures and ideologies that make life very difficult for half the human race: women.” Amis was explaining his stance in a gloves-off row that’s been raging in the British press since last fall, when the literary theorist Terry Eagleton likened some of Amis’s statements on Muslims to “the ramblings of a British National Party thug.”

Tags: amis, uk, politics, sam harris.org

Sam Harris : The Problem with Atheism (part 1)

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:33:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Brave and very comprehensive talk by the brilliant Sam Harris.

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Tags: sam harris, atheism, religion, politics