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There's a time and a place for everything. For example, there may be nothing wrong with building a museum of Japanese military history, but would the place for that be Pearl Harbor? How about our First Amendment right to speak out -- that's important, isn't it? So does that mean it's supposed to be okay for the God hates f*gs crackpots to protest at funerals? How about burning an American flag? Know how the US Flag Code suggests you get rid of a flag? The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem...

Search engine Google has been accused of censoring its results after users discovered it never suggests search terms when it comes to Islam. In a time-saving feature the internet phenomenon, whose motto is 'don't be evil', helpfully suggests common searches as people type in what they are looking for. For example, if you type in 'Christianity is' in the search bar a whole range of options flash up including controversial suggestions such as 'Christianity is fake' and 'Christianity is a cult'. Google Google has been accused of censoring offensive searches relating to Islam But anyone typing in a similar phrase...

Christmas -- the mass celebrating the birth of Christ -- is the biggest shopping season of the year. To save Christmas, some on the right seem to think the best thing is to commercialize it. They insist stores advertise "Christmas sales," not holiday sales. They judge leaders by whether they send out cards wishing a "Merry Christmas," and not simply a happy holiday. But shopping isn't the point of the story. It's not about exchanging Christmas cards, or about holiday parties. The story of Christmas is about a couple -- Mary and Joseph -- forced by an oppressive imperial government...

The photos of the victims are horrifying. With their bodies covered with huge pustules that will have left large craters in their skin forever (if they survived), the victims of smallpox suffered unimaginable agony. Along with the pus-filled lesions came crushing headaches, delirium, extensive bleeding, crippling backaches, chronic fatigue, unstoppable diarrhea and vomiting, bone infections, pneumonia, and fevers that oftentimes ran above 104 degrees. Highly contagious, it is easily spread through droplets expelled by sneezing, coughing or breathing, and it can also be spread through contact with an item touched by an infected person, like a set of keys, cell...

    WAR ON TERROR BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHTby Gary D. Halbert March 16, 2004 IN THIS ISSUE:1.  Al Qaeda Attack Influences Spanish Election2.  Are Other European Allies Next?3.  US Implications Of The Renewed Terrorist Attacks 4.  Terrorism And The 2004 Election Introduction Last week’s tragic train bombings in Spain brought the War On Terror back into the spotlight.  Since there have been no follow-on terror attacks in the US since 9/11, Americans’ focus of attention has turned to the economy, health care and more mundane issues.  However, with the latest horrific attacks in Spain, terrorism may again become a...