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STUDENT GETS F GRADE FOR MENTIONING GOD:
The mother of four from Apple Valley, Calif., [Bethany Hauf] is now demanding an apology from the school, as well as a regrading of her 10-page report.
“I don’t lose my First Amendment rights when I walk into that college,” she said.
...”I have one limiting factor – no mention of big ‘G’ gods, i.e., one, true god argumentation,” [Professor] Shefchik stated.
...Judy Solis, chair of the English department, says Hauf was given three options: submit the report with God included, make revisions and edit out the G-word, or rewrite the entire report.
“She continued to write her paper,” Solis told the Press. “She knew what the consequences were.”
Bethany has contacted, and is being support by, an organization called the American Center for Law & Justice.
...”Bethany’s paper discusses some of the evidences supporting a hypothesis that, while the Constitution prohibits an established church, religion was essential to the founding of the Nation and to its governance thereafter,” [Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the ACLJ] writes.
It sounds like a great paper.
Zell Miller, in a recent radio interview:
“Probably the Republicans ought to be cheering [Dean] on, because he’s doing more harm than good for the Democrats. Here is a man who should be trying to broaden the base of his party, a party that has been shrinking now for many, many years. Instead, he is narrowing the base even more. How can you broaden the base of a party when you are talking about independents and Republicans having no sense, being evil, not working a day in their life? It is ridiculous.”
Saddam’s Iraq Was Motel 6 for Terrorists:
Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a veritable Motel 6 for the world’s worst terrorists – a gang of mass murderers who had killed hundreds of Americans – well before the U.S. invaded.
The article lists leading terrorists who were living in Iraq under Hussein.
This racist Mexican stamp fits right in with Vicente Fox’ statement that Mexican migrants do jobs “that not even blacks want to do.” It also fits in with Fox’ encouragement of his people to look down on U.S. immigration laws.
We do need to control the borders.
From AP:
After Sept. 11, it was necessary to “draw a line in the sand here, and the country to do it with was Iraq because they were in breach of U.N. resolutions going back over many years,” [Blair] said. “I took the view that if these people ever got hold of nuclear, chemical or biological capability, they would probably use it.”
Blair was asked about the leaked memos, which suggest strong concerns in the British government that the Bush administration was determined in 2002 to invade Iraq — months before the United States and Britain unsuccessfully sought U.N. Security Council approval for military action.
...According to the minutes of the meeting, Sir Richard Dearlove, then chief of Britain’s intelligence service, said the White House viewed military action against Saddam Hussein as inevitable following the Sept. 11 attacks. Bush “wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD” (weapons of mass destruction), read the memo, seen by the AP. “But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
In the interview, Blair said raising such concerns was a natural part of any examination of the cause for war.
“The trouble with having a political discussion on the basis of things that are leaked is that they are always taken right out of context. Everything else is omitted from the discussion and you end up focusing on a specific document,” he said. “It would be absolutely weird if, when the Iraq issue was on the agenda, you were not constantly raising issues, trying to work them out, get them in the right place,” he said.
I don’t get the criticism of GWB based on these memos. Is the theory that the GWB administration should not have considered military action against Iraq until the morning it went to the U.N. Security Council seeking approval to do so? Was GWB expected to seek such approval from the U.N. without wanting to get it?
