Disturbing? Yes. Illegal? No.
Thats what police, residents and free speech experts say about a truck seen driving around the city displaying handmade signs disparaging women. The placards, which are stuck to the back of the dark purple pickup truck, include messages like All women are Satan and The only good woman is a dead woman. The signs appear to be made of white cardboard and red stic
Scottsbluff officials say they’re reviewing a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union that says a local ordinance barring fortunetelling is unconstitutional.
ACLU Nebraska said in a letter dated April 21 to Mayor Randy Meininger that a Scottsdale resident had contacted the ACLU about the ordinance, which bans fortunetelling, clairvoyance and divination.
The growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is not only an environment danger, but also a widening political headache for President Obama, who just last month agreed to open vast stretches of the U.S. coastline to oil drilling.
White House attention to the oil leak, from a deepwater exploration well, is ramping up quickly: Obama was briefed on the cleanup operation Wednesday night and again Thu
Tensions over a student’s eating habits at a Canadian elementary school have cost a school nearly $17,000 in moral and punitive damages to the boy’s family, according to the National Post .
The case centered on a claim of racial and ethnic discrimination and has drawn international attention.
The National Post reported that a Quebec Filipino family won their fight against a Montreal school b
Christianity deserves no protection in law above other faiths and to do so would be irrational , divisive, capricious and arbitrary, a senior judge said today, as he rejected a marriage guidance counsellors attempt to challenge his sacking for refusing to give sex therapy to gay couples.
In the latest clash between the judiciary and Christian believers, Lord Justice Laws said that laws cou
Manx National Heritage is holding a celebration of Manx May Day at Cregneash on Bank Holiday Monday, 3nd May 2010.
There will be a variety of activities throughout the day, including the opportunity to learn about the folklore and traditions of the Manx May Day through music, dance and storytelling in Harry Kellys cottage.
Manx National Heritage Curator for Social History, Yvonne Cresswell
The numbers are shocking: 12,000 people killed in a cycle of violence between Christians and Muslims stretching back more than a decade.
The location: Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, lying on the continent’s fault line between the largely Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
The number of people convicted and sentenced for the killings: Zero.
That’s just one of man
Barry Raftery, former professor of Celtic archaeology in the UCD school of archaeology, the fifth man to hold the post since it was established in 1909, and one of Europes most innovative archaeologists, began his seminal work, Pagan Celtic Ireland (1994) with characteristic flourish.
July the 18th in the year 387 BC was not a good day for Rome. On the left bank of the Tiber on that date Roma
The furor over Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants grew Monday as opponents used refried beans to smear swastikas on the state Capitol, civil rights leaders demanded a boycott of the state, and the Obama administration weighed a possible legal challenge.
Activists are planning a challenge of their own, hoping to block the law from taking effect by arguing that it encroaches on
The Supreme Court, wading into a thicket of free-speech and children’s rights issues, agreed today to decide whether California can ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
The Court will review a federal appeals court’s decision to throw out California’s ban. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated minors’ constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth
