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  • BANNING BOOKS
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BURN THE BOOKS
    By Peter Fredson
    September 30, 2005
    “Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black-mustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep (…)

  • BUSH FUNDAMENTALIST SEXUAL MORES
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SNIFFING CROTCHES
    By Peter Fredson
    September 29, 2005
    Speculation on True Believer Sexual Mores
    In older days it was reputed that some nutty or horny high school boys would get kicks from sniffing girl’s bicycle seats. In modern times you have Republican True Believers improving on the kicks by investigating people’s sexual habits in full juicy details to make them sweat and slaver. They never seem to tire of gossip about who is humping whom, the duration of the hump, the size of (…)

  • ADL’s New ’Hate Bill’ The Death Knell For Talk Radio
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rev. Ted Pike 6-29-5 The Anti-Defamation League’s new, tougher hate bill, "The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005," HR 2662, if passed, will very soon end FREE SPEECH and FREE SPEECH TALK RADIO. The ADL, through similar legislation, has already ended free speech in Canada. It wants to do the same in America. Here’s a summary of how this bill would make law. HR 2662 intends to enforce nation-wide the working ADL/federal definition that ’hate’ equals bias (…)

  • NEW FEDERAL “HATE” BILL MEANS FUNERAL OF FREE SPEECH
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rev. Ted Pike
    On Sept. 14, the US House of Representatives passed, 223-199, the ominous federal “anti-hate” bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005. It was inserted as AMDT.2662 into the Children’s Safety Act. If approved unaltered by the senate judiciary, this legislation is ready for the President to sign into law.
    Here is a summary of what the bill would make law:
    Although AMDT.2662 ostensibly empowers the government to assist states in prosecution of (…)

  • IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY
    By Peter Fredson
    September 26, 2005
    This morning I awoke at exactly 6:45 a.m., got up from bed, stubbed my toe on a chair, went to toilet at exactly 6:47, washed my hands at 6:48, went to the kitchen for a cup of tea but found the tea canister empty so had to go to the refrigerator. I found the milk carton with only half a glass of skim milk, drank it with my pills, opened the kitchen window to let a breeze in, listened to a bird warbling, then went back to the (…)

  • Battle Of The Two Theories
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    School’s evolution teaching goes on trial today
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    HARRISBURG, PA — (OfficialWire) — 09/26/05 — A group of parents in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is seeking to overturn a decision by the local school board who have insisted that so-called Intelligent Design-the theory that complex organisms have been designed (presumably by God) rather than having evolved in response to natural selection-must be (…)

  • "Oliver Twist"
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Roman Polanski’s astonishing film exquisitely captures both the anger and the cruel beauty of Dickens’ great novel.
    By Stephanie Zacharek
    Sometimes you look at a movie adaptation of a classic book and it’s as if you’re reading it with the filmmaker, turning the pages together. Roman Polanski’s "Oliver Twist" takes the useless question of whether reading is "better" than moviegoing and renders it academic: This is that rare movie version of a great novel in which watching is reading. (…)

  • WHICH GOD ARE YOU UNDER?
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNDER WHICH GOD?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 15, 2005
    Today a federal judge declared that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the inclusion of the words “Under God” in public schools is unconstitutional, a decision that could lead to a heated round of Supreme Court arguments and endless acrimonious debate among True Believers and non-Christian believers or “others.”
    U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton stated that the reference in the pledge to “One Nation Under God” violates the (…)

  • Western view of Islam: A troubled history
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sunday 04 September 2005, 17:22 Makka Time, 14:22 GMT
    I have spent much of the last four years scavenging for medieval manuscripts, in an attempt to study medieval European representations of Islam. I am generally averse to sweeping statements, but I will say this: I am yet to encounter a tradition and historical experience as profoundly distorted as Islam’s has been and continues to be to the present day.
    And although we are relentlessly pulled away from the ontological why questions, (…)

  • GOD IS PUNISHING US FOR BUSH
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOD IS PUNISHING US FOR BUSH’S PRIDE
    By Peter Fredson
    September 3, 2005
    I went to the local grocery store to get some hot-dog buns. While there I greeted an old lady, a Baptist neighbor. “How are you doing today,” I asked.
    “Not too good. I’ve been watching the TV news about the terrible hurricane on the Gulf Coast, and I’m all upset.”
    “Yes,” I said, in agreement with her, “All that death and destruction is terrible news, and our officials seem to be stumbling in the dark about (…)