Child 'slavery' being imported to U.S.

Dec 29, 2008 - ne child's story speaks for the thousands locked in silent servitude The Associated Press updated 4:11 a.m. CT, Mon., Dec. 29, 2008 In Africa, children of the poor are commodities, often traded like cows or donkeys by adults who value their labor. - 3 Comments

'Circus of Horrors' - Teen Girl Forced to Swim in Piranha Tank

Mar 28, 2008 - Source: Fox News Police Shut Down Italian Circus After Woman Forced to Swim in Piranha Tank Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Police have closed down a circus in southern Italy after a terrified 19-year-old woman was forced to swim in a tank full of piranha fish while her younger sister endured the company of snakes and tarantulas. Three men have been arrested and charged with holding the Bulgarian women in slavery and breaching international human rights conventions. The trio, who are accused of running a "circus of horrors," were named as Enrico Raffaele Ingrassia, 57, the owner, his son William Ingrassia, 33, and his son-in-law Gaetano Belfiore, 25. - 5 Comments

Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin

Nov 18, 2009 - When she was running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin reportedly said that even if her then-14-year-old daughter were raped, she would "choose life" and force her to bear a child. Comments like that that have endeared the fiery Alaskan politician to most pro-life voters, who lionized her for not aborting her Down's Syndrome baby. But Trig isn’t enough to protect Palin from a phalanx of anti-abortion activists who plan to protest her appearance on Thursday to promote her book in the conservative heartland of Indiana. - 12 Comments

RI closer to changing state name over slavery

Jun 26, 2009 - I didn't know this. You learn something new everyday. PROVIDENCE, R.I. - 7 Comments

Knee Slapper or Head Scratcher?

Nov 13, 2009 - China warns Obama about Dalai Lama, citing Lincoln on slavery Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:30am EST [-] Text [+] Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009 07:49am EST  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese government spokesman said Barack Obama should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang made the comments at a news conference on Thursday, four days before Obama arrives in China for a summit that will cover the two big powers' vast and sometimes tense economic, diplomatic and security ties. Obama did not meet Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, when he was in Washington in early October. - 3 Comments

Pro and Con of Ten Commandments posted in schools

Nov 14, 2009 - PRO 1 Our government was based on religious principles from the very beginning. The 10 Commandments are the foundation of our moral government. CON 1.1 Having religious principles does not mean that they wanted to use the government to force religion on the country. - 15 Comments

Corporations Afraid of Losing Prison & Child Labor?

Nov 12, 2009 - Rachel Maddow transcript: The new rules for Wall Street and the banks will also create a consumer financial protection agency. So in the same way that regulation keeps off the market things that, when used as directed, have a good chance of killing you, things like long darts, or cars with the fuel tank right next to the bumper. A consumer financial protection agency would keep off the markets, say, really bad mortgages that, when used as directed, are likely to blow up in your face as well. - 2 Comments

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Oct 13, 2009 - Well, one thing was dead sure, and that was that Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actuly going to help steal that nigger out of slavery. That was the thing that was too many for me. Here was cheap wow gold buy wow power leveling And waited. - 0 Comments

Republicans Struggle to Get Off the Mat

Sep 26, 2009 - Republicans Struggle to Get Off the Mat By G. Tracy Mehan, III In Alice McDermott's touching, depressing novel, Charming Billy, a 1998 National Book Award winner, the Irish-American narrator, makes a parenthetical comment on her father's "legion of cousins" in New York, regarding whom "it had seemed to me that there were more alcoholics among them than there were Republicans, or even redheads." I laughed out loud when I first read that passage since my family was one of the few Republican households in St. - 10 Comments

Tom Brokow's World Implodes

Sep 15, 2009 - http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/   Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press. - 15 Comments