A new progressive spiritual alliance wants to give the religious fundamentalists a good spanking. [Alliance site added to the ASD as well -SR]Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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God's Politics
France to Impose Curfews to Quell Rioting
France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country. The violence started Oct. 27 among youths in a northeastern Paris suburb angry over the accidental deaths of two teenagers but has […]
US: Teen Runs For Mayor
Sam Juhl, 18, is running for mayor in Roland -- unopposed. He's the only name on the ballot.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: School sex survey lawsuit thrown out
A federal appeals court Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by parents outraged that the Palmdale school district in California surveyed their elementary school children about sex. Parents whose students took the survey signed consent forms. But the forms never mentioned sex would be a topic.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Email screwup leads to politician telling truth
AN EMAIL to a constituent was accidentally sent with a US senator's spinners real views about the issue tacked on the bottom. Ooops!Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Lies, lies everywhere, all for war
Another generation of American kids are dying and being maimed for life because someone in high office lied and then covered it up -- or, in this case, tried to cover it up.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Lots of cheating going on
Examiners say they detected "blatant copying of material from the internet" in some of this year's coursework for GCSE English.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Law to punish kids AND their parents?
Teachers in England are to be given stronger legal rights to restrain pupils and to punish badly behaved children, the government has confirmed. Its report said schools should be able to apply for legal orders against parents who fail to co-operate with them.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Catholic school bans blogging
Head teacher Rev Kieran McHugh said that any student who ran a blog on the internet will be suspended. Although he didn't say from what, although we are assured that the Church doesn't hang people for opposing it these days.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Top 10 Dumb Things Bush Said in 2004
Does this need any explanation? :PPosted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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