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For Occupy movement, civil disobedience is a legitimate form of protest
I am impressed by Jabriera Handy's story of her experience in jail and her work today as a youth organizer ("Occupy right to question youth jail plan," Jan. 23). Remarkably, she does not sound bitter, but rather, at a young age, has turned her...Tags: Prisons, Protest, Political Dissent, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons
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Obama needlessly at war with churches
The ultimatum by the Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services to Christian church groups (and by implication Christian medical personal) to abandon their faith exposes further its increasingly totalitarian pagan character ("Fight...Tags: Annapolis, Religious Conflicts, Birth Control, Germany, Health
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Religious bigotry in Ocean City?
For 20 years, the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast in Ocean City has been a generally quiet affair. But this year the event's sponsors invited as guest speaker a former high-ranking Pentagon official notorious for his characterization of Muslims as idol-...Tags: Civil Rights, U.S. Army, Politics, Ocean City, Freedom of the Press
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Santorum's moral relativism should play well in South Carolina
Never mind Rick Santorum's flexibility on abortion, which columnist Thomas Schaller cited in questioning the GOP presidential primary contender's morality ("Rick Santorum's moral flexibility," Jan. 11). It's the candidate's profession of "pro-life"...Tags: Republican Party, Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Ethics
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U.S. and Pakistan: Uneasy allies
News that the U.S. has resumed drone strikes in Pakistan, killing at least three suspected militants last week in the tribal areas of North Waziristan along that country's border with Afghanistan, could hardly come at a more delicate moment for U.S.-...Tags: Coup d'Etat, Afghanistan, Politics, Yousuf Raza Gilani, NATO
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Tebow wars: Give it a rest
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is an evangelical Christian. He is devoted to his faith in a very public way, and that, as much as his perplexing play on the football field, has made him a cultural lightning rod. The wise heads of football insisted...Tags: National Football League, College Sports, Evangelical Christianity, Protestantism, Religion and Belief
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The Taliban's olive branch
American officials are welcoming a Taliban statement that the Afghan insurgents will set up an office in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The move is being seen as a first step toward peace talks aimed at reconciling the Taliban and the Western-backed...Tags: Politics, Qatar, Burhanuddin Rabbani, NATO, Hamid Karzai
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With G-8 and NATO ahead, Chicago says it has learned from 2003 war protest
While Mayor Rahm Emanuel is preparing for large demonstrations at the upcoming G-8 and NATO conferences, his administration is moving to settle lawsuits that prompted a scathing judicial rebuke of the way the Chicago Police Department has treated...Tags: Laws, Punishment, Politics, Police Arrests, NATO
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Obama defends 'judicious' use of drone strikes during online Q&A
President Obama offered a vigorous defense of the use of unmanned aircraft to kill Al Qaeda operatives and other militants in Pakistan's tribal areas and in the process, officially acknowledged the highly classified CIA drone program which, until now, U....Tags: Police Investigations, Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Pakistan, The New York Times
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Oscar nominees take a look back with 'New Nostalgia'
A couple of years ago, Bruce Sheridan, chair of the film program at Columbia College, noticed a curious thing happening. A few of the film majors who interned on the Chicago production of "The Dark Knight" had started making their student films and, as...Tags: Health, Entertainment, Owen Wilson, Steven Spielberg, John Ford
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Yaffa Yarkoni dies at 86; Israeli singer
Yaffa Yarkoni, a singer who entertained Israeli soldiers on the front lines for half a century and later reaped public censure for her outspoken criticism of the military's treatment of Palestinians, died Sundayof Alzheimer's disease in Tel Aviv. She...Tags: Politics, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Radio, Israel, Music
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Iraq: A war of muddled goals, painful sacrifice
BAGHDAD (AP) -- In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world.
Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, U.S. Department of State, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Politics, Guerrilla Activity
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