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[Forum Against War on People (Punjab)] Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion - Gautam Navlakha: saw, heard, read, discussed, debated, and argued during a fortnight-long journey in January 2010 in what the CPI (Maoists) describe as a guerilla zone, where they run Jantanam Sarkar (JS) or their “people’s government”. Although “guerilla zone” is still an area of contention and control between the government and rebels, it is nevertheless an area where the Indian State has been forced to retreat and is using military force to re-establish its authority.

[BBC World Have Your Say] On air: Does the media pick the winner? « BBC World Have Your Say: News Corp-owned Fox News is often criticized for alleged conservative bias, though it denies these allegations. His reach and corporate tentacles envelops millions of people’s lives in the USA, the West in general and an increasingly worrying monopoly of influence throughout Asia and the Far East.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Honoring Teddy By Opposing Health Care: Since we were in the midst of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga, with Ken Starr in the news every day (and possibly there that night), Teddy and all kinds of liberals were raging about out of control special prosecutors. I made the point that I agreed -- but where were they when all those prosecutors were running wild in the Reagan-Bush era?

[StephanKinsella.com] The Trouble with Feser (on Libertarianism); Woods, Fleming ...: And, if one is not an atheist but any kind of Catholic, how is it possible to put the teachings of an anti-Christian atheist above the church in a matter of morals? We’ve been over the ground, showing that the argument is not about state-intervention or state welfare systems–which we oppose on practical and moral grounds–but like the dog returning to his vomit,, the libertarian must take his stand not on Christ’s two great commandemnts–to love God and to love our neighbor as ourself, but on the much lower principle of non-aggression, which is taken as a given by most moral and religious systems.

[Brettongarcia's Blog] The Sins of the Pro-Life Movement: a 700-page book outlining 100 ...: So how can we stop this?  Here we will have begun to note to Christians, that EWTN and the conservative anti-abortion position are not really backed by the Bible, or the Church.  But in addition to these other authoritative opponents of the movement, we will also note here, e) that there is one more testimony to the evils in pronouncing anti-abortionism holy:  the poisonous practical, physical results or “fruits” of it.  Specifically, remember, the reason that several cardinals and a pope, began to speak against the one-issue fixation, is that it ignores too many other, perhaps “proportionate”ly worse evils.  Anti-abortionists, by just looking at the embryo, ignore so many other important issues ”¦ and allow many other evils to grow.  And indeed, the results or dangerous outcome of narrow anti-abortionism today, begins to fully justify the cardinals’, the Pope’s warnings, against the movement.  The anti-abortion movement in effect, ended up electing countless conservative/ pro-military, nationalistic right wing Republicans in America, 1980-2007.  “Conservative” Republicans that to be sure, opposed the relatively minor sin or abortion ”¦ but neglected other, far more important issues.  Like aa) avoiding unnecessary wars.  (We would argue that Iraq and Afghanistan are “just,” but unnecessary).  And those who we “good” on abortion, also were bad on other issues; like bb) preventing environmental disasters like floods (in New Orleans and the tsunami in Indonesia).  And bad about cc) cc) helping the poor, with Welfare and so forth.  And bad about –

[Gerald Warner's blog listings.] Gordon Brown: socialist wrecker of Britain's economy - Telegraph Blogs: Today the New Labour junta that dismissed Frank Field for being serious about welfare reform will present its latest cosmetic, smoke-and-mirrors pretence at addressing a situation it has no intention of changing since it generates the oxygen of its client state. This issue is as big an imposture as everything else in this wry-mouthed autocrat’s career.

[SamSederShow.com - unbought, unbossed] He does goats | SamSederShow.com: ....In February, the Obama DOJ went to court to block victims of rendition and torture from having a day in court, adopting in full the Bush argument that whatever was done to the victims is a "state secret" and national security would be harmed if the case proceeded. The following week, the Obama DOJ invoked the same "secrecy" argument to insist that victims of illegal warrantless eavesdropping must be barred from a day in court, and when the Obama administration lost that argument, they engaged in a serious of extraordinary manuevers to avoid complying with the court's order that the case proceed, to the point where the GOP-appointed federal judge threatened the Government with sanctions for noncompliance.

[Faizan/e/Madina Mosque] The Luminous Chandelier in the Stories of the Poles of Prophets ...: In an explanation of the same verse, that is to say the superior merit of some Prophets in regard to others, the Siraj Munir (The Illuminating Lantern) observed that, “the Holy Prophet’s merit is manifested in the fact that he is sent to all the creatures and that he is the last of Prophets, and that his people are the most numerous, and that by the Creed of his religion he abrogated all the other religions, and that he (Sidna Mohammed, peace and blessing be upon him) is the Mercy of all the beings, his Holy Quran having amazed creatures of Heaven and earth by being suitable to all times and all places, remaining thus the greatest miracle in the world until the Day of the Resurrection”. It is also said in the enumeration of the Prophet’s miracles that the moon split in two at the simple gesture of the Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him), and that a branch broke off from a tree to follow him, and that a stone has greeted him, and that some animals spoke to him, and that water flew from his fingers, and many more such as these.

[Gumption] Gumption: The Coffee Party: Political Conversation vs. Confrontation: The question, I suppose, is whether it is wiser - and/or more effective - to promote alternative perspectives through conversational or confrontational tactics, or to advocate adversarial positions with consideration or condescension. Personally, I tend to prefer coffee to tea.

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