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Freedom of or from religion?

Perhaps there is a god; he’s just tired of Americans, being so full of themselves.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Outside the Islamic world, the U.S. is the most religious nation on earth. Canada and the European nations are all nominally religious in orientation, but no one takes their religion more seriously than the American people.

The Constitution supposedly guarantees the separation of church and state but in reality, it does no such thing.

Daryl Hall and Cee Lo Green Join `Voices` for a Soulful Live from Daryl`s House

“Cee Lo and I performed together like we’ve been doing this all our lives” - Daryl Hall

(NEW YORK) - Daryl Hall is more than used to being part of a soulful duo, having partnered with John Oates in the best-selling music pairing of all time.

So when he hooked up with Grammy winner Cee Lo Green—now a TV star as judge on NBC’s hit show The Voice—for the 52nd and latest edition of his critically acclaimed live web series and nationally syndicated series Live from Daryl’s House, it was no surprise that sparks would ensue on the show...

Sri Lanka`s Ghastly Child Killings

More than 100 children were among a huge number of Tamil civilians killed by the Sri Lankan Forces in a gory bloodbath in May 2009.

(COLOMBO TruthDive) - Even innocent and young children were not left behind in the blood bath staged by genocidal Sri Lanka.

Yet another horrid clip of a young boy killed in cold blood has surfaced, captured from the final hours of the gory 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil rebels.

Should England`s Cricket Team Tour Sri Lanka?

The England tour comes at a hugely controversial time.

(LONDON ) - As England's cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country's human rights record?

Andy Flower has departed for Sri Lanka today as manager of an England team reeling after a test whitewash in the UAE to Pakistan and nervous about playing on yet more slow and turning pitches

International Women Rise to Action Against Female Genital Mutilation

The following is being released by World Women...

(NEW YORK) - As the two week long international conference of the UN Commission on the Status of Women comes to a close on Friday, women are charged to fight all forms of violence against women.

During the conference, there were several sessions on female genital mutilation (FGM) also known as female circumcision, including an "End FGM" concert and a call for support of the UN Global Ban against the practice.

Amnesty Urges RI to Ban Genital Mutilation

In November 2010, the Health Ministry issued a regulation that legitimizes the practice of female genital mutilation.

(JAKARTA, Indonesia) - To mark International Women’s Day on Thursday, human rights watchdog Amnesty International is called on the Indonesian government to repeal a 2010 government regulation permitting “female circumcision”.

The London-based organization also suggested that authorities help eliminate the practice by enacting specific legislation with appropriate penalties prohibiting all forms of female genital mutilation.

Women in Mexican Politics

“I wanted Zihuatanejo to have many schools, students and electricity” - Dona Cari

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - When Caritina Galeana Gomez was born, women did not have the right to vote and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that dominated Mexico for much of the 20th century wasn’t even created.

Born just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Dona Cari, as she is known locally, grew up in the Costa Grande of Guerrero state before a highways and tourist resorts attracted people from all over the world.

More than 100 Congressmen Demand AG Eric Holder`s Resignation

Smuggling guns through U.S. federal channels to Mexican drug cartels just doesn't sit well with people.

(WASHINGTON DC) - A handful of media groups are reporting over 100 members of Congress calling for the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

It stems from Holder's tragic decision to have the ATF smuggle deadly weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in the agency's 'Fast and Furious' operation.

Marijuana Finally Recognized by The Oregonian, Part 2

More than five U.S. Presidents were known marijuana users.

(MOLALLA, OR) - I would guess that the Oregonian will not write a story about the 101 comments they received on this subject but it is necessary to do so.

I read all of the comments, in here is the first part of my critique. Thirty-three comments were quite positive for Marijuana. Twenty were against, some most vehemently (more later).

Towards Tamil Eelam: London Speech

I am rooted in Martin Luther King’s premise: “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere”.

(LONDON) - This speech has been unusually difficult for me to prepare, because I am so angry with the whole world, and most of the people in it, including many of the victims of oppression.

I will explain underway. I try to speak my talks and not read them, but this topic is too complex for me to rely on my spontaneity, so I have chosen to write it, and then rewrite it, and end up still angry.