Queers United urging boycott of Dr. Phil show

Claiming that Dr. Phil has been on a crusade to pathologize queer identities with shows about "gender confused children", "experimental bisexuality", and by giving a platform to "ex-gay therapy experts" from Focus...

Church and police join forces to end binge drinking

A new campaign is being launched in Wales today with the aim of ending binge drinking. People are signing a pledge to stop the practice, which is very common in the UK."PEOPLE across Wales are today urged to pledge to stop binge drinking as an unprecedented coalition of...

WORLD KNOWN AS "TERRORISM"? OR JUST POLITICAL RIVALRY TERRORIZING EACH OTHER?

WORLD NEWS: In all areas of the world there lies the so-called terrifying "TERRORISM" pointed to AL QAEDA, MNLF, ABU SAYAFF ETC.. The world has been disturbed by many bombing, endless death of innocent civilains, damaged of vast tract of properties and so on and so forth..But...

Hold on! Ron Paul did NOT quit the GOP presidential race (Analysis)

According to Andrew Malcom, Ron Paul played the system like a fool's paradise. Busily selling books, planning meetings, and maintaining his grip on a block of delegate votes, Paul it seems, is still on the...

Ron Paul Launches New Effort

"Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday at a rally outside the Texas...

Heath Ledger Died, Baptist States "God Don't Like Fag Movies".

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know I thought I knew every Crazy Religious Nut out there, somehow this oneslipped under the Radar. Shirley Phelps-Roper is one crazy Lady, from the pulpit of her...

Taxi Driver Blogger Clashes With Pop Legend Prince

This raises some interesting questions about fair use. What if a natural disaster or a crime occurred, and you're standing nearby with your video camera. You start rolling, capturing the entire scene - but in the...

Jihads of the West

"It was on this day in 1095 that Pope Urban II, while on a speaking tour in France, called for the first Crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Turks. There was no imminent threat. Muslims had occupied...

Venezuela's Chavez on moral crusade

Are Venezuelans as dedicated to the Revolution as Chavez would like? Are they ready to be told how dedicated they must be? What to eat, what to drink, how to live. Many will argue that anything anti-yankee is good, but how many of the free spirits are willing to run to...

Norma Gabler, Leader of Crusade on Textbooks, Dies at 84

"Norma Gabler, a Texas homemaker who recoiled at material in her children’s textbooks and became the public face of a crusade with her husband to rid schoolbooks of content they considered antifamily, anti-American and anti-God, died on July 22 in Phoenix. She was 84."

Disquiet at Benedict XVI's second anniversary

Christian Terras, yesterday at Golias, took the two years of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate into review and is not enthusiastic.  Beginning by admitting Joseph Ratzinger's obvious intellectual and theological gifts, and rightly refusing to ascribe to him any simple...

The Edwards Announcement: A NowPublic blog roundup

Yesterday's announcement on the part of John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth that she has Stage IV incurable cancer and that he will continue to campaign has raised a few eyebrows in Washington and across the...

SCO Vs. Blogger

"For three and a half years, a blogger named Pamela Jones has led a relentless online crusade against software maker SCO Group, posting thousands of articles bashing the company for suing IBM over the Linux...

New 'Indiana Jones' Gets Release Date

"LOS ANGELES -- George Lucas wasn't kidding when he said "Indiana Jones 4" is a go. According to Variety, the long-anticipated fourth installment of the blockbuster film series is slated for a May 22, 2008,...

'World of Warcraft' Designated Hitters

For such involved games, such a thing was perhaps inevitable. I am reminded of services that will queue for you to get concert tickets or opening-night cinema tickets. As massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORGs)grow, the time spent and status aquired online...

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