Is Congress Trying to Sneak a Thought-Crime Bill

Seeded on Thu Nov 1, 2007 8:41 PM EDT (Open Congress)

Seeded by Snowflake-Seven (Clipped by Lascivius)

If it hadn't been for the blogs, I, like many others, wouldn't have noticed H.R.1955, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.

politics, thought-crime, homegrown-terrorism, hr-1955, violent-radicalization

U.N. envoy arrives in Myanmar to talk peace

Seeded on Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:59 AM EDT (CNN)

(CNN) -- United Nations envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari arrived Saturday for talks with senior government officials aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to ongoing clashes between the military's ruling junta and pro-democracy activists, a Western diplomat told CNN.

myanmar, world-news, burma, un-envoy

Doctors remove 5 polyps from Bush's colon

Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:01 AM EDT (CNN)

Doctors removed five small polyps from President Bush's colon on Saturday, and "none appeared worrisome," a White House spokesman said.

entertainment, white-house, colon, camp-david, george-bush, dick-cheney

In Europe and U.S., Nonbelievers Are Increasingly Vocal

Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:42 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to work, high school teacher Graham Wright recited a favorite Anglican prayer and asked God for strength in the day ahead. Then two years ago, he just stopped.

religion, secular, atheist, reason, humanist, rational, freethinker, non-religion, absence-of-faith

Polygamist prophet is now a criminal defendant

Seeded on Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:17 PM EDT (CNN)

ARIZONA-UTAH BORDER (CNN) -- After 115 days on the FBI's most-wanted list and a year in solitary confinement in a jail called Purgatory, the leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect is going on trial in St. George, Utah.

religion, polygamist, jesus-christ, prophet, hedonism, warren-jeffs, mental-instability

Teen Christians campaign against pop culture

Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:57 AM EDT

(CNN) -- At one point in Jared Hutchins' young life, the Beatles were a big problem. Hutchins was one of the almost 128,000 people who attended an Acquire the Fire rally in the last year.

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