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“Where there is no eye there is no caste” Rudyard Kipling in his famous novel Kim The obsession with race in the US is pervasive and never-ending. Watch the debate about Obama and the coded objections (too young, no experience etc), and ask yourself “Would you be prepared to vote for a white male …
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When I mentioned to a relative that Obama looked quite promising as a candidate for US President, she replied, "But I thought he was holed up in a cave in Pakistan."
On the face of things, better conditions should lead to larger families, not smaller ones. However, it is impossible to argue with the facts, and the facts are that the rate of population increase is dropping, and that the drop is correlated with increases in personal economic well-being.” Geoffrey Carr, Science editor of the economist, …
The UN reports that 34,452 civilians have been killed in violence in Iraq over the past year and about 36,885 people have been wounded. Gianni Magazzeni, head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, accused the government in a press conference on Tuesday of failing to provide security and blamed some of the violence …
Last summer, when Washington, DC was suffering through a spate of murders, the Christian Defense Coalition and its director, Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, responded by sponsoring “six days of around the clock prayer vigils under a large tent on the National Mall, from July 21 to July 26, asking God to reduce the crime rate …
