The coalition is to push ahead with plans for gay marriage following the personal intervention of David Cameron. Liberal Democrat Lynne Featherstone will today unveil plans to legislate to bring in gay marriage before 2015. The Equalities Minister will also announce that Brit …
Having last year made a curious discovery, that in a Province of this Kingdom, and not fifty miles from its Capital, a sort of devotion is still paid to Priapus, the obscene Divinity of the Ancients (though under another denomination), I thought it a circumstance worth recordin …
The Top Five Lies Now they're at it again, this time trying to turn the unfortunate bankruptcy of a solar-power company named Solyndra into an all-out, anti-Obama and anti-government attack.
Sen. Sherrod Brown thinks so. In April, the Ohio Democrat introduced the Shared Retirement Sacrifice Act of 2011, which would require lawmakers to wait until the age of 66 to collect their pensions.
Hey, before I was one years old I was held in front of the church, in what would become MY congregation, my people, my lessons and wisdom, and I was baptised. My Mother held me, my Dad stood beside her with his hand on my head.
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HPV vaccines have been a big political topic this week in the U.S. It all started at a Republican presidential debate when Michele Bachmann criticized Rick Perry’s executive order which mandated Gardasil for girls in Texas.
The two families met because of a bank — a time bank, where the unit of currency is not a dollar, but an hour. When you join a time bank, you indicate what services you might be able to offer others: financial planning, computer de-bugging, handyman repairs, houseclea …
I observe what is going on in our Country right now and am shocked. I know I may be being unreasonable but look at it my way, just for fun. Granted we all want to have our way. This is how sharing began as before there was a lot of blood shed.
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Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer's is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."
We all have engaged in stereotyping the opposition and in the process have adopted, for lack of a better term, pet names we like to use to denigrate the opposition. We fail to draw the line at reserving the pet names for the Elected officials but instead use the broad brus …
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