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SHIPPENSBURG, PA -- The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, September 4, 2003, ordering Shippensburg University President Anthony F. Ceddia not to enforce provisions of what the court termed Shippensburg's "speech code." The code is being challenged in a lawsuit brought by attorneys in the Legal Network of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The court also denied the university's motion to dismiss the case, allowing it to proceed to trial. "This is a great victory and a vital step in the struggle against the scandal of unconstitutional...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 21, 2003 12:40 PM CONTACT: Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana Aaron Houston 603-669-2962 Edwards Campaign Flustered by Medical Marijuana Protesters WASHINGTON - August 21 - MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE -- At a town hall meeting hosted by his campaign yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) avoided questions from Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana (GSMM) as his campaign workers attempted to block GSMM volunteers from displaying protest signs in Manchester's City Hall Plaza. GSMM volunteers protested Sen. Edwards' July 15 statement that he would continue the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raids on seriously ill...

Platform of the Communist Party USA Communist Party Immediate Program for the CrisisIt is shameful and unacceptable that any child should live in poverty, and that anyone should go hungry, homeless, without medicine, or without a living wage in our nation of such great wealth.Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families - Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. -Unemployment insurance for all workers. - Moratorium on farm foreclosures - Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union. - No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits. - Universal prescription drug...

Amateur mathematician's time theories published at last 31.07.2003 11.04 am University drop-out Peter Lynds, 27, of Wellington says he has further plans for mathematical and philosophical explorations after publication of his theories on the nature of time. Mr Lynds, who studied at university for just six months, said his paper, Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs Discontinuity, was being published in the August issue of a Dutch-based journal, Foundations of Physics Letters. The journal specialises in rapid dissemination of research in theoretical or mathematical physics, or the philosophy of science. Now a broadcasting school tutor, Mr Lynds said...

Lesbian pastor ruffles Southern Baptist tradition Jim PattersonAssociated Press STANDING HER GROUND: April Baker, an associate pastor at Glendale Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., has brought condemnation upon the church from two Baptist conventions because she is a lesbian and her congregation has chosen to support her. July 05, 2003 — 2:12 a.m. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The sermon at Glendale Baptist Church one recent Sunday recalled how Jesus mingled with tax collectors and prostitutes, refusing to snub people for the unpopular things they did. "What does it mean that God's love is for everyone?" preached Glendale member Eileen Campbell-Reed,...

The Fascist Epithet Mack Tanner Epithets are always good political weap- ons. If they are well chosen, they paint the opponent's reputation so black that further discussion is no longer required. If an opponent is inherently evil, then one has no reason to expect that rational discussion and debate would produce any useful result. Therefore, once a political opponent has been appropriately labeled, that person can be shouted down and driven from the po-dium without the need of further discussion. Using epithets is obviously not engaging in logical political discourse, but politics isn't about logic, it's about winning and...

Disarming Iraq, or Disarming Iraqis? Editorial April 2003 by Andrew E. Busch As debate continues over who should exercise fundamental authority in the rebuilding of Iraq, commentators have generally focused on the choice between a coalition-led rebuilding effort and one led by the United Nations. The arguments against the United Nations exercising primary power are multiple, not least of which are the incompetence of the U.N. in the run-up to war, the close ties between certain members of the Security Council and the previous Ba’athist regime, and the probable unwillingness or inability of the U.N. to provide the kind of...

Winter 2003 | Vol. 13, No. 1 Why Feminism Is AWOL on Islam Kay S. Hymowitz Argue all you want with many feminist policies, but few quarrel with feminism’s core moral insight, which changed the lives (and minds) of women forever: that women are due the same rights and dignity as men. So, as news of the appalling miseries of women in the Islamic world has piled up, where are the feminists? Where’s the outrage? For a brief moment after September 11, when pictures of those blue alien-creaturely shapes in Afghanistan filled the papers, it seemed as if feminists...

  Written about 1994 is my guess. An excerpt from:http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/PS/Finley/PS425/reading/Huntington1.html   The Clash of Civilizations?by Samuel P. HuntingtonSAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. This article is the product of the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and American National Interests."Almost without exception, Western countries are reducing their military power; under Yeltsin's leadership so also is Russia. China, North Korea and several Middle Eastern states, however, are significantly expanding their military capabilities. They are doing this by the import...

The Clash of Civilizations? by Samuel P. Huntington SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. This article is the product of the Olin Institute's project on "The Changing Security Environment and American National Interests." THE NEXT PATTERN OF CONFLICT WORLD POLITICS IS entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be -- the end of history, the return of traditional rivalries between nation states, and the decline of the nation state from the...

Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums SuttonMonday, April 8, 2002Does anyone know the origins of Political Correctness? Who originally developed it and what was its purpose?I looked it up. It was developed at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which was founded in 1923 and came to be known as the "Frankfurt School." It was a group of thinkers who pulled together to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia.The problem? Why wasn't communism spreading? Their answer? Because Western Civilization was in...

March 22, 2002 Your action is urgently needed! Please call and email your U.S. representative immediately and urge her or him to oppose a bill that would be lethal to young women. The Teen Endangerment Act (H.R. 476), called the Child Custody Protection Act by its sponsors, would criminalize anyone other than a parent who accompanies a minor across state lines for an abortion if she has not complied with her home state's parental consent or notification law. A grandmother, older sister or religious counselor could face a year in prison and a $100,000 fine if convicted of taking a...

[CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM] How do you get young Middle Eastern men to fly a jet full of Americans into the side of a skyscraper? You tell them their creator will love them for it and reward them beyond their wildest dreams. But they have to believe in such a creator first. To instill this belief you educate them from a very young age. You tell them things like: in death, the true believer lives. In life, the true believer, when directed by god, kills unbelievers. In both death and life, a true believer's happiness is fulfilled by a grateful and all-powerful god....

screams the 3.25.02 cover of The New Republic. The New Republic editor Peter Beinart had a vision: Neither Bush nor Atty. General Ashcroft have mentioned nonbelievers since 9-11, meaning they are trying to write atheists out of America’s moral community. That’s what The New Republic editor Peter Beinart claims in his TRB (The Real Bologna? Tom Robinson Band? ). It’s impossible to prove a negative, so we must take his assertion on faith, as it were. Among Beinart’s non-corporeal evidence: After 9-11, “Muslim dignitaries were invited to pray in the East Reception Room before listening to Bush tell the assembled...

Andrea Pia Yates has been found guilty as charged in the case of the systematic, methodical, premeditated murders of her own children. She chased them down, and used her superior strength to hold them under the water, as they struggled in mortal terror for their lives. The little ones she killed that day, in an act of horrific brutality, were: Paul, age 3; Luke, age 2; John age 5; Noah, age 7, and little baby Mary, the image of innocence at only 6 months of age. Yates, 37, will spend at least the next forty years of her life...

Girl declared brain-dead after eating hemlock Second Dallas teen who samples the plant makes full recovery 03/13/2002 By HOLLY WARREN / The Dallas Morning News A Dallas girl who ate hemlock has been declared brain-dead, hospital officials said Tuesday. Catherine Vanstone, 13, was among a group of Dallas-area girls spending spring break at Perennial Vacation Club just outside Bandera, about 40 miles west of San Antonio. She found the hemlock along a riverbed during a nature hike. Bandera County Sheriff James MacMillan said Catherine and another girl went for a walk Sunday afternoon along the Medina River. They found...

Heath Readings in The Literature of Europe Copyright, 1933 By D. C. Heath and Company PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BOETHIUS (ca. 470-525 A. D.) Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, celebrated philosopher and statesman, was born of a family to high rank and educated at Rome and at Athens, Early in life he made the acquaintance of the Greek Classics, many of which he translated. His abilities as a scholar and politician rapidly brought him into public prominence, and in 510 he was selected by King Theodoric as his counsellor. Boethius carried on his work with great success ...

RALPH RUMNEY, the artist who has died aged 67, was the sole English founding member of the Situationist International, the subversive movement which helped to inspire the Paris riots of May 1968, the Sex Pistols, the K Foundation, the decor of the Hacienda Club in Manchester and Damien Hirst.The Situationist International was founded in 1957 by Guy Debord in a bar in the village of Cosio d'Arroscia, high in the Italian Alps. Rumney was there throughout the week-long meeting, supposedly representing the London Psychogeographical Committee (which did not exist). He documented the proceedings in photographs, witnessing, as he believed, the ...

The Transformation of Individual Rights by Tibor R. Machan Across the centuries an important idea emerged as crucial for how people should live in their communities. Finally, in the US Declaration of Independence, this idea gained official recognition and, eventually, worldwide popularity. I am talking of course, about the idea of individual rights. Although there had been rumblings about them already in ancient Greece, not until the English philosopher John Locke wrote his book, Second Treatise on Government, did a full blown theory back up the idea. This was Locke's theory of natural rights. Its essence is that because of ...

<p>Two commentators on religion disagreed yesterday on whether monotheism, with its idea of one God's will, leads to the violence seen among Muslim followers of Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>"There is no greater sanction for human extremism than God himself," said Andrew Sullivan, a Catholic and contributing editor to the New York Times magazine. "I'm so tired of this president going around saying, 'Any religion you believe in is better than none.'"</p>