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Last week, Libya’s transitional government issued a ban on religiously-based political parties. Now, just days after the initial decision — one that infuriated Islamist groups — was made, officials have decided to backtrack. AFP has more regarding the decision to, once again, allow religiously-rooted political parties: Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday dropped a controversial ban against parties organised along religious, regional, tribal or ethnic lines. Members of the NTC judicial committee on Wednesday read out an amended version of its law governing the formation of political parties, making no mention of the ban. Originally, The Blaze reported that...

"Societies measure their heroes in different ways. Some societies honor athletes or performers. Others celebrate caregivers and humanitarian workers. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have consistently chosen to honor murderers as their national icons. "

[. . .] In recent days, one Iranian radical after another has declared publicly that the refusal of Washington and the Europeans to persuade the International Atomic Energy Agency to act against Iran (by referring its case to the United Nations Security Council for action) vindicates Mr. Ahmadinejad's defiant posture. "This showed that whenever we deal firmly with the Europeans and Americans, and if we are united within our ranks, we will force them to retreat," said one parliamentary ally of Ahmadinejad. He added that "in the next stage" Iran "must resume uranium enrichment activities in Natanz and produce more...

QUEER AMERICA by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher November 27, 2003 I wrote a column earlier this year by the name of 'Queer Nation' in reference to our Canadian friends and the perverted action taken by the Ontario Court of Appeal as it pertained to same-sex couples and allowing 'so-called' gay couples to 'marry'. Why is it perverted from this perspective? Simple. Because marriage has been from the beginning of recorded history - regardless of what belief system you may ascribe to - the union of men and women. It wasn't Adam and Steve nor was it Madam and Eve...

[SOUTH KOREAN DMZ-THURSDAY]Once again, human rights organizations opposed to the brutal Kim Jong-il Stalinist dictatorship in North Korea, made efforts in a village near the S. Korean DMZ, to launch a series of 'propaganda balloons' with small AM frequency radios attached, hoping they would reach the North. But their efforts were thwarted by political correctness and appeasement.The objective today was to reach everyday North Korean citizens who could then tune into private S. Korean and other Free World and Christian AM radio broadcasts to hear what is happening in the outside, free world.[Communist North Korean radios are soldered and...