Parental Rights Amendment Introduced Into Congress

Update: 7:41 pm EDT Photos and video coverage of the Parents' Rights Constitutional Amendment Conference are now available at Representative Pete Hoekstra's website, here and here.--- Update: 5:29 pm EDT I...

Many women to "win full pension right" in UK

Reports are circulating that the UK government will today announce that they will change the pension laws to allow women who did not work for the minimum 39 years to receive national insurance benefits. In the UK, national insurance is the equivalent od social security in the...

Batting team to choose one Powerplay: ICC

" The International Cricket Council on Tuesday announced new playing conditions that give liberty to on-field umpires to consult the third umpire in case of unclean catches and also bar players from taking...

Democrats err on immigration, Latino issues

As they recall the failure of immigration reform in Congress, Democrats want to come off as the good guys."This means burying the fact that their patrons in organized labor instructed them to kill any compromise that included guest workers — a concept AFL-CIO President John...

Churck Norris: Nancy Pelosi vs. Rush Limbaugh

Opinion-Editorial by Chuck Norris Despite the fact that a recent poll found that Americans now believe (by a 3-1 ratio) gas prices are a bigger problem than global warming, The Washington Post noted that House...

Senate Will Vote on Prohibiting Funds for Coercive Abortions in China

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement prior to a vote on a motion by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) to kill two of his amendments to the...

Black Americans on long road to political equality

Obama will make Martin Luther King proud if he'd be the next president of USA....."For black Americans, the road to political inclusion that has allowed Democratic candidate Barack Obama to make a serious bid for...

Chavez warns he will cut off oil to Europe over new migrant law

UPDATE: 6:40PM ESTPresident Hugo Chavez has now threatened to stop selling oil to the EU if the controversial new migrant law is passed."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Thursday to stop selling oil...

Egyptian People's Assembly Approves Child Laws, Makes FGM a Crime

"By Safaa Abdoun and Lina MarwanFirst Published: June 8, 2008CAIRO: The People’s Assembly approved amendments to Child Law 12/1996 drafted by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) after months-long debates.One of the most welcome articles was one...

Islam Advancing in France, Being Pushed Back in Turkey

"These are an odd couple stories. On the one hand you have the ineffectual French courts kowtowing to a Muslim husband who wanted his marriage annulled because his wife wasn’t a virgin. On the other hand is...

Local Government Comprehensive Planning Certification Program Has Limited Par...

" Since the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Certification Program's creation in 2002, only five of the state's local governments have chosen to apply for certification. Three local governments were certified by the Department of Community Affairs (cities of...

War on Error

"War on Error: Dr Haneef and the Keystone Cops By: Katherine Wilson Wednesday 1 August 2007 According to statements in the Law Council of Australia’s latest report, the ‘Kafkaesque’ and ‘Alice in...

Dancing for the sake of dance: NYC residents take to the streets

We here at NowPublic have been covering New York's tendencies towards becoming a nanny city over the last year (No trans fats? No metal bats? No iPods across the street? No slurs?) Not least of all the bans was...

URGENT! Europeans! Last chance to save Europe from worst copyright law in the...

From the good folks at BoingBoing:"EFF's Danny O'Brien writes with this urgent message for Europeans: IPRED2, the insane EU plan to criminalise almost all copyright violation (meaning that rightsholders could pressure the police to prosecute companies they don't like - eg...

Keyword: Egypt

This "Keyword Poem" is based on an article called Egypt Rejects U.S. Amendments Criticism, published by The New York Times, and provided by The Associated Press. I could not find the names of the authors. I wish to thank them in advance for letting me doing this experiment,...

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