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Well, this is a revoltin' development. CNN Reports that people with diagnosed mental illness, some of them on anti-depressants, are being forced to fight in Iraq. There have been twenty-two suicides, one fifth of all non-combat deaths. Of course, there is a very good reason. Yeah, like the...

From the Beacon Journal: Hackett termed the maneuver a "betrayal." Senate Dems will back House Democrat Sherrod Brown in their bid to unseat Senate incumbent Mike DeWine.

Background: I'm 28 years old and was raised as a Catholic. I haven't been to church voluntarily in about 10 years. I'm what can be described as a "weak" atheist. Last week, my grandmother died after a long illness. Her funeral was a full-on Catholic thing, and I was asked to do a reading...

Apparently England has something called the Standards Board of England, which in turn apparently has the power to review the statements of elected officials and to force apologies or even remove officials from office. They've started an inquiry into Livingstone's tirade about Nazis at a Jewish...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4344043.stm Good grief!

Read it all. It just doesn't get weirder than this.

I don't know if anyone else in the UK is following this case, but David Westwood has been attacked in a report by the government which blames him for allowing Ian Huntley, who later became a murderer, to get a job working with children. I think this case is absolutely typical of the lack of...