This judge's ruling seems to be based on a very narrow definition of the establishment clause:
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the federal statute that established the National Day of Prayer, ruling that it violates the constitutional ban on government-backed religion.
No matter how often the Malthusians are wrong, they just keep talking:
Deepak Chopra has made millions and millions giving navel-gazing Americans an excuse to sit around with their eyes closed and doing nothing. But I guess we should be careful about making fun of him:
There was an interesting segue during the roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week" yesterday. A discussion of the GOP chairman's image problems specifically and people's disgust with Washington generally was followed immediately by a discussion of the latest sex scandal of the Catholic church.
During the political segment, former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich said this:
Just whittlin' away here while the world goes by faster and faster. First there was Earth Day. Now, for those with short attention spans:
Icons including the Great Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower and China's Forbidden City will be plunged into darkness on Saturday as millions take part in "Earth Hour", a rolling grassroots movement aimed at tackling climate change.
We might or might not have God on our side, but it's OK (so far) to have him in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our money.
The federal court that touched off a furor in 2002 by declaring the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion took another look at the issue Thursday and said the phrase invokes patriotism, not religious faith.
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Further proof that we should take what "the experts" say with, well, a grain of salt:
For all the talk about the growing menace of sodium in packaged foods, experts aren't even sure that Americans today are eating more salt than they used to.
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This Indiana University professor doesn't think much of the democratic process:
"No matter how often President Obama pleads for it, bipartisanship has become a joke. So, while the two sides continue this ridiculous game, Rome -- read: the planet -- is burning."
We're all going to die! Just not as soon as we had imagined. The good news is that the folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have moved the hands of their Doomsday Clock one minute back from midnight, to six minutes before the hour. The bad news is that they've added something else to their fretting besides atomic Armageddon:
Nobody can add insult to injury quite like Pat Robertson:
You know ... something happened a long time ago in Haiti.
