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Smoking in Flagstaff’s Bars

E.D. Kain @ May 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’m not a smoker. I used to be, but I quit two years ago. Now I can’t stand smoking. I try it every once and a while, and I always feel worse for wear afterward. I don’t particularly like being around second-hand smoke either. I don’t like the smell of old smoke–it’s stale, and dirty, [...] Read more »

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Jane Novak and the Armies of Liberation

E.D. Kain @ May 21, 2008 # 2 Comments

Well, to most of us bloggers, there’s really nothing surprising about what Jane Novak is doing in her (as the New York Times put it) crusade for imprisoned Yemeni journalist Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, the now somewhat infamous dissident she has been blogging about for several years now.  You see, bloggers tend to scrape beneath surfaces that [...] Read more »

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Statement of Khalid Salman in Support of Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani

E.D. Kain @ May 20, 2008 # 3 Comments

Khaled Salman is the former editor of Al-Thoury, the Yemeni Socialists Party’s paper. Because of the targeting of editors in Yemen, Salman was in fear of his life and was granted political asylum in the UK in 2006. To follow is Khaled Salman’s statmement in support of Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani (English and Arabic), “Freedom for al-Khaiwani“. [...] Read more »

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History of Tibet before the Chinese Invasion of 1949

Guest Authors @ May 19, 2008 # 5 Comments

Tibet has a history dating back over 2,000 years. A good starting point in analyzing the country’s status is the period referred to as Tibet’s “imperial age”, when the entire country was first united under one ruler. There is no serious dispute over the existence of Tibet as an independent state during this period. Even [...] Read more »

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Frontiers of the Human Spirit

Churchills Parrot @ May 8, 2008 # One Comment

“To me the greatest issue in this part of the world is not deserting Israel.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
There is at present but one flag upon Earth’s moon; for only a society which values the liberty and enterprise this flag represents could achieve such a miracle. That flag yet stands alone, a colorful and defiant testament [...] Read more »

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A Strong Case for Israel

E.D. Kain @ May 8, 2008 # 6 Comments

Today Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary, and the world watches in full knowledge that amidst the fireworks of celebration are police and soldiers unable to celebrate alongside their fellow Israelis. These brave men and women are keeping watch over their people, vigilant as ever against the very real threat of rocket attack, suicide bomb, [...] Read more »

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Battle of Morality: Good vs Evil

Edward Beaman @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’ve long thought of Agnosticism as the lazy thinker’s way out of cerebral toil. Whilst not personally sharing the militant atheism of Richard Dawkins, I had concluded before I read his fascinating book, The God Delusion, that people who declared there might or might not be a divine being, were as bad as those who [...] Read more »

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‘In a World Without Truth…’

Guest Authors @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet

(An aside: when I refer to and quote the United States Constitution in this artcle, unless otherwise noted, the information and quotes come from www.usconstitution.net)
In his trip to America, Pope Benedict XVI has said many profound things. However, this single sentence jumped out at me, and now I cannot get it out of my [...] Read more »

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