What the Cherokee Nation is pushing for and the South Carolina Supreme Court erroneously overlooked – is that any woman, of any heritage, who sleeps with any man of any apparent heritage – even a one night stand – CANNOT go ahead with an adoption without somehow ensuring that this man does not have a smidgen of tribal heritage.

WHAT does this kind of ruling do for the rights of women – of unwed mothers? What kinds of hoops will teenage girls now have to go through if the Supreme Court rules for the tribal governments? Where is the outrage from women’s groups over this case?

And yet – no one would say a thing of she opted to abort her baby instead. The tribal government wouldn’t – couldn’t stop her from doing that. Just consider the ramifications of a tribal government victory in this case.

Our Families are NOT Chattel for tribal governments – no matter how many claim them to be. As parents, we will continue to fight for full rights and freedom for our families – every one of whom is a United States Citizen – even if this Supreme Court makes the wrong decision.

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From what my sources and I have been able to observe the highest priority of the state, the FBI, BIA as well as other federal agencies has been to silence us, to label us as liars, as incompetents not qualified to identify the abuse of a child, to minimize the seriousness of this situation with their fabricated, self-serving claims. Among these claims are, “It’s a new problem”; “This problem arose because the Tribe lost the person responsible for filing their forms”; “If those whistleblowers would shut up everything would be fine”; “Everything is fine”; “They are making great progress”; “You are expecting too much progress too quickly”; “They are working hard.”;“It’s all fixed.”; “We’re doing a great job for kids” “You are not a subject matter expert”.

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She said she was first given to a man at the age of ten. Her sisters were also given to men. She told how she begged to be allowed to return to the only family she had ever felt safe with – the foster family that the tribe, through ICWA, had taken her from. She told how she tried to run away over a dozen times – to get back to the foster home where she knew she was loved. She told how the home where the tribal govt placed her made her destroy pictures of the family she loved, and how they had cut a rope to save her when she had tried to hang herself. It was only then that they finally allowed her to return to her true home.

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NO ONE else in America is put underneath a law that dictates how you are supposed to spiritually raise your kids. The 1st amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”… but the ICWA Congress enacted comes dangerously close to doing just that.

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…while ALL the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs members voted for this resolution preventing adoption of Russian children – several members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs continue to uphold similar ‘Putin-like’ legislation preventing adoption of American children.

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While many tribal governments continue to fund congressional candidates who promise to increase tribal sovereignty, the voices of the children who are at the mercy of corrupt government continue to go unheard. The truth that must be revealed is that some tribal governments are not protecting the children in their “custody.” Some have said that there are children actually being traded and sold by the very people who are being paid to “foster” them. The Spirit Lake tribal government in North Dakota is not isolated in the mistreatment of children.

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by Elizabeth Sharon Morris “They just took my baby after 3 years…her sobbing is forever etched in my soul. She wanted us to save her and we couldn’t. Devastated.” An adoptive mother contacted CAICW on Facebook with this message at 1 am on Saturday, November 20, 2010, just hours after losing her little girl. CAICW [...]

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In the Thursday, October 18, 2012, segment of Dr. Phil show, Cherokee Nation Attorney Christi Nemmo refused to admit 2-year old Veronica had only a drop of Cherokee blood, but she also doesn’t deny it. She doesn’t answer the question because she knows people would be horrified. She tries to make the argument that it’s not about how a child looks or how much blood the child has, but that they have a right to be part of the Cherokee tribe.

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The political hit job movie,  2016: Obama’s America is now out in DVD which means I got to see it. Film Summary: President Obama is trying to please his Marxist/anti-colonial father by remaking America to punish her sins, and that is why the US is going to hell. No, it’s not quite that bad, but [...]

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A true story of an American tribal member who, after coming to know Jesus Christ, realized just how much liberal policies within tribal and federal government were hurting his extended family. Roland grew up watching members of his family die of alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, and violence on the reservation. Like many others, he blamed all the problems on “white people.”

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. We are gathering in DC in July – Come Add Your Voice to the Call to Protect Children from the Indian Child Welfare Act! Why? To protect the individual rights of Indian children and their families To ensure they maintain the right to a safe, supportive and stable family To request support for appropriate [...]

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I think  those who live and work in the US for x number of years without papers should get an amnesty, as was done by Reagan, and I support the targeted amnesty by Clinton for refugees from countries where their lives were in danger if returned, but the blanket amnesty by President Obama for illegal [...]

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Unless you have a cynical mind, (or have been trained to question authority) you might agree with this article in the AMA News: Aggressive end-of-life care for Medicare dialysis patients is pervasive Hospitalization, ICU admissions and feeding tubes are common. Nephrology guidelines call for advance planning and advise caution in elderly dialysis. The article goes [...]

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WEAVER – Song of the South 1946 Review Song of the South (1946) Review Ruth Warrick (Actor), Bobby Driscoll (Actor), Harve Foster (Director), Wilfred Jackson (Director) | Rated: G | Format: DVD While sitting on my porch this morning I was visited by my friend Chipper, a bold cardinal who thinks he owns the porch [...]

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Anti Catholicism has a long history in the US, an inheritance from England, where the religious wars for and against the regency of Queen Elizabeth led to Catholics being demonized as evil. ( Elizabeth was inconveniently conceived before her mother married, and many folks said her mother never married the king at all, so this [...]

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I had to laugh. Jane Fonda is among the fainting feminists who want Rush Limbaugh removed from the airways for insulting a woman. Well, she has a point. Technically, the word to describe those of either or both sexes who have sexual relations outside of marriage is “fornicator”, and this is not illegal in the [...]

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It is written in oh so politically correct language, but it should set off alarm bells. A US government appointed ethicist at the National Institutes of Health just wrote an article in the Journal of Medical ethics (which can be read at the British Medical Journal website)  proposing the handicapped should be killed for organ [...]

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It’s hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away (I live in the rural Philippines, and we get the news a day late), but as a Democrat, I was bemused to read in today’s papers that Rick Santorum just won in the Republican primaries of Minnesota and Missouri. Santorum? I wasn’t aware he [...]

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On New Year’s Eve, Jessica Munday watched helplessly as her close friends, Matt and Melanie Capobianco were forced to hand over their adopted little girl, Veronica, to her birth father. Now Munday and Stephanie Brinkley (a Charleston adoption attorney) are on a mission to “save Veronica.”

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Here in the Philippines, thanks to Wikileaks, we know that not only American money is behind our “Reproductive Health Bill”, but that the American State Department is pressuring our president to pass the bill. Heaven knows that the Philippines does need access to cheaper Birth control, but it’s not as if it’s not available: they [...]

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“Traumatic grief, with its unanswered questions, its numbing shock, its horror, its ability to sear disturbing images into our souls that cannot be erased by sleep or by time–this process follows the same general path both for persons and groups.” When 12:30 struck, none of us fourth graders knew that our young president was being [...]

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I read a name from the past in today’s news: Medgar Evers. The name takes me back to the days of when as a child we visited our aunt who lived in the deep south, and I was astonished that there “colored only” restaurants and water fountains. Evers was one of the heroes who fought [...]

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One Minneapolis social worker once told me that the only reason my husband’s grandchildren weren’t removed from their parents sooner was because of the Indian Child Welfare Act. He said that had they been of any other heritage, they would have been protected much sooner.

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It’s been 8 months since Arab Spring revolution swept Egypt and led to the end of Mubarak’s regime. The uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in February has hammered the economy and sparked a wave of sectarian and other violence that the ruling army and its interim cabinet has struggled to control. Fearing the radical Islamic [...]

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The latest “Western” movie from Hollywood, about aliens and starring a petulant British actor, was a bomb, and that led many “experts” to again predict the demise of the Western as a film genre. Of course, the real reason for the problem is the nihilism of Hollywood, not the lack of stories. So could I [...]

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“What would you do if you found out at age 16 that you didn’t have the right papers?”
I would do just as I did in Canada when the visa’s for my entire family ran out and we were denied new visa’s in Calgary. We left the country and did not re-enter until we had valid visa’s again.

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Los Alamos, with it’s nuclear facility, has been evacuated again. The NMNational Guard is busy helping with the fires near Alamagordo, as is the California, Colorado and North Carolina Air National Guard. From the BBC: The town outside Los Alamos National Laboratory was evacuated on Monday. On Wednesday, there were expected to be between 600 [...]

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Back in the “good old days”, a lot of states had “literacy tests” for voters. If you didn’t pass them, you couldn’t vote. Of course, it was a scam: the real reason for the testing was to eliminate black voters, and the fight to remove the laws was part of the civil rights movement to [...]

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Thirty years ago, I helped arrange an outpatient dialysis program on a remote Indian reservation. Tell you the truth, the hospital was substandard, the staffing was short, and the administration pressured the docs not to transfer patients out to better facilities because our “contract health” funds were limited. But the tribe saw dialysis, which could [...]

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The temporary shutdown in Egypt of Internet and other telecommunication services, as well as similar interruptions in other Middle East countries experiencing large-scale protests and rebellions, has galvanized hackers and human rights activists as well as U.S. foreign policy makers. The consequences may be not be what anyone expected. The technologies for secure, private, fault [...]

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Remember the late great Tea Party? The grass roots movement that made the political establishment quake? For one glorious moment it seemed as if a truly independent, average Joe/Joan movement might be gathering steam. A memory from that halcyon time: assorted TV pundits telling Republican leaders that Tea Party people “don’t like you guys either”. [...]

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I’m not going to diplomatically dance around so as not to step on toes. Kids are dying. Beautiful Michelle hanged herself in a simple closet, where all she had to do was stand up to save herself.

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What has to be acknowledged is that we live in a migratory, multi-cultural society. This means that many children who fall under the jurisdiction of the Indian Child Welfare Act have more than one heritage, and many times are predominantly of another heritage, and/or have family who not only haven’t any connection to the Indian Reservation, but have specifically chosen not to participate in the reservation system.

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Need a close-to-home example of how socialist policies within our government currently affect U.S. citizens? Read Roland Morris’ story. Read about his family: A beautiful 16-year-old niece who hanged herself in a closet, another dying of a drug overdose in a public bathroom. A brother was stabbed to death on the reservation, a 4-yr-old was left alone for a whole night at a dangerous inner city park while her Dad drank, and a 2-yr old was beaten to death by her mother. Those examples are just starters. Find out why this tribal elder traveled to DC over and over again to fight tribal jurisdiction over his family – as well as the well-compensated Congressmen who support it.

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Across America, children that have never been near a reservation – nor ever involved in tribal customs – are routinely removed from homes they love and placed with strangers – sometimes unsafe – chosen by tribal Gov’t.

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“If you read it and you were not Christian, would you not feel welcome to rent there?”
Seriously? Is this Haynes woman any relation to Nancy Pelosi? She sure sounds just as light-headed.

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This was supposed to be a “post” racial presidency. Why is our leadership fanning these flames?

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I am bemused when the elites of both parties are horrified at a woman candidate who overturned their chosen candidate in the primaries. No surprise about this, after all the Press promises to promote the propaganda, never mind the truth of the matter. From the Atlantic: Chuck Todd said it first… “There will be an [...]

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I just finished watching the “Restore Honor” rally at the Washington Monument, and the message from the rally moved me greatly. First, for those who do not know me, I am a Christian, and believe in the rapture, and of all that is spoken of in the book of Revelation. I say that because I [...]

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Mrs. Obama, like so many in her small circle, appears to be completely blind to the rest of America. Does she honestly believe that the ‘African American’ community is hit harder by the economic downturn than, say…the ‘Native American’ community?

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In April, 2008, the press was hailing the brilliance of Barack Obama, and dissing the much more experienced Hillary Clinton for not dropping out of the race, even though the race was close and several primaries were still due to be held. So, when in early April, stories started percolating on right wing blogs and [...]

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This is a country full of varied individuals. Our family refuses to even answer the questions about ‘race’ posed by the census, school documents, and the like. Race doesn’t matter!! It’s liberals who keep trying to make it an issue.

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Time and again I have seen children placed by their tribe into violent, verbally, physically, and even sexually abusive, drug infested homes. I have seen little or no attention given to the emotional and mental health issues these children have had.

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Even Eric Holder and his crew have been unable to justify a reason to fight it. That’s why they are sitting on it, claiming that they are going to go slowly in order to mull it over. As near as many of us can tell, they are sitting on it until the law takes effect in the hopes of catching an Arizona police officer attempting to use it to commit a crime.

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Everyday we are reading and watching the news. Recently, it has focused on the problem of Bullying and how far it is going. Phoebe Prince took her life following a copy cat case in New Hampshire. Next, we hear of a couple of 11-year-olds who are taking their lives. It is sad and everyone says [...]

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Obama, in yet another speech last Friday, failed to apologize for not having been any better than his predecessors in taking action to protect the border, and blamed Congress, (who he had forced into a year long pre-occupation with health care) for failing to enact ‘comprehensive reform.’ He then made another ‘promise’ that if Congress continues to waste its time pandering to his agenda, “We will continue to see misguided efforts opening up around the country.”

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So…this guy is happy to be paid for not doing anything, and happy that his employer couldn’t ask him to do physical labor, and happy that no matter what’s going on in the shop, he’ll get his break on time. This really sounds like a great worker; someone I’d definitely want to have on my payroll. He’s sure living the American Dream.

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…President Obama has made jokes about Arizona and the law. He gave an appearance of being unaware of the federal law in which the Arizona law was based, but I think he knows full well what the law is. After all, wasn’t he trained as an attorney and didn’t he once claim to have taught law?

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The Highland Park High school in Illinois won’t let it’s girls varsity basketball team go compete in a tournament this coming December because its Superintendent’s office doesn’t like Arizona’s politics.

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William Churchwestbankvoices@gmail.comOn 13 April 2010, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Order 1650 (Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration) went into effect.  Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups have predicted mass deportation of Palestinians.  The Israeli government’s public relations machine has gone into high gear spinning the order as a beneficial human rights move and they claim only [...]

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Bill Clinton attempted to connect the small and peaceful demonstrations of upper middle class Americans with the Oklahoma City bombings in a recent New York Times Editorial. …we should never forget what drove the bombers …They took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the bombing by an increasingly [...]

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When is a comic not a comic? When he takes insults about “dykes” and “c*nts” off stage,  when he twice marches over to the table of two lesbians in the audience, when he later grabs the sunglasses off the head of one of the lesbians after insulting her at the bar, when he hollers at the lesbians outside as they leave [...]

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If you want a controversial ex politician to give a talk to your group, do you expect that person to will fly unaccompanied in coach, find a taxi to your site, and stay at Motel 6? Or do you think that the politician will ask for a decent airline flight (first class, for security reasons, [...]

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Where was Zoey? The lawyer for lesbian Lorna Pardy seemed thrown by a question about the failure of Pardy’s ex-girlfriend’s to testify at the BC Human Rights Tribunal. The question was asked by adjudicator Murray Geiger-Adams during last Friday’s wrap-up of a hearing into homophobic remarks that Pardy was subjected to by comedian Guy Earle, just after her then [...]

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It was a human rights hearing that at times sounded like an ad for Corona beer.  A discussion with waitresses about getting a round of cold Corona was the first in a chain of events that led to a hearing last week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal, a hearing in which Zesty’s restaurant in Vancouver and an MC at [...]

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Maybe the suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince will finally wake us up.  Maybe the articles in the New York Times, Huffington Post, People magazine and dozens of others will wake us up.  Maybe the long list of charges against the bullies and tormentors will finally goad the public to demand strong action.  Maybe charges of [...]

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  Lorna Pardy ended up hurting herself when she laid a human rights complaint against comedian Guy Earle for discriminating against her as a lesbian and a woman. That was obvious this week at the BC Human Rights Tribunal where witnesses were calmly asked, “Did you hear Mr. Earle say, ‘Don’t you have a strap-on [...]

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I have many ethical problems with the Obama Health Care bill. But the real story that is being ignored about Obama’s health care bill is that it kowtows to big insurance and big drug companies, who stand to make a killing from the bill. Reuter’s review of “winners and loser” should give you pause: hospitals [...]

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Maureen Dowd, the red headed vixen of the NYTimes editorial page, gushes effusively on attending an art show in the Saudi kingdom: It was an unlikely moment, SoHo comes to Saudi Arabia — the first mixed exhibition anyone can remember in Riyadh, the stultifying capital of a country that bans any exhibition of skin, fun [...]

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This just in. Despite the president’s promise that no taxpayer money will be spent in funding elective abortions (i.e. those not done for genetic or severe health reasons), the latest report in USA today says that they are pushing a slight of hand to promote abortion as part of the health care bill. USA Today [...]

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PHOENIX (psburton) — a civil rights advocate is using text messages to alert residents when the local Sheriff conducts one of his infamous immigration sweeps. Lydia Guzman, the director of a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, is the trunk of a grass roots texting tree designed to alert thousands of people within minutes of sheriff Joe [...]

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Those who travel by air in the future might soon face full body pat downs to check for bombs in the bosom and crotch, thanks to Umar the Panty bomber. But the real problem is that “no using the rest room for the last two hours of flight”. Apparantly, Umar spent an hour in the [...]

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Using a slight of hand and having his propaganda mill obscure what has been done, the Democrats and the Obama administration are planning to fund abortion in their health care bill. The original “compromise” on abortion was a slight of hand that would force people to pay for abortion coverage themselves, similar to the way [...]

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Well I bet nobody saw this coming.  Bogged down by sinking approval numbers for the President, and a growing disdain among Americans for the democrat led senate, Charles Rangel has enacted the ever-so-popular liberal defense mechanism, the race card.  Rangel, the Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee stated that “bias” and “prejudice” toward Obama are fueling [...]

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Wow! Its been 12 years since the death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1997. Can you believe how fast time flies? It seems like yesterday I was waking up to read the morning news to find her death sprawled all over the front page. As I was always a fan, I was saddened by [...]

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There is a lot of nonsense being written by all sorts about the late Senator Teddy Kennedy, but as a Senator, he was a hard worker for his constituents. Yes, I know. Kennedy didn’t do such things personally, but he had a large and energetic staff to help him, and half the “trick” of being [...]

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ICANN has forgotten who it works for – us. Thomas Jefferson noted that the exercise of political power without the consent of the governed is illegitimate. ICANN’s attempt to impose a governance structure on noncommercial users against our will calls into question ICANN’s legitimacy to govern; it undermines confidence in ICANN’s commitment to democratic values; and it appears ICANN is unable to protect the broader public interest against commercial pressures….

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Walking out the door, my to-be husband whispered to me that she wouldn’t have done that if he hadn’t been standing behind me. He truly believed that the only reason she asked for my ID was because I was with a minority. Nothing could have been further from the truth.

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So…those of you that believe Cenzon-DeCarlo should have gotten another job: Do you honestly think that this nurse is the only one that doesn’t want to participate in abortions?

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Now, I understand that Professor Gates had just returned from a long trip. I know that when I come home from a long trip, I am tired and crabby. It had to further aggravate him that when trying to get into his home to finally kick his shoes off and rest, the door was jammed. Topping off a long and tiring day, the police showed up and began questioning him. All he wanted to do was take a hot shower and go to bed, right? That’s all understandable. But none of it was Crowley’s fault and there is no indication that racial profiling occurred.

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I once was wending my way home after a midnight flight when I saw the blue lights of a cop car telling me to pull over. Now, I was tired (coming back from a weekend ER shift in another state) and cranky. And, I was alone on a stretch of lonely rural road where two [...]

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There’s an old phrase book for foreigners: English as she is spoken. So let’s talk about Health Care rationing, as she is practiced. With all this talk about government health care and the possibility that rationing will be part of the plan, I am astonished that no one has bothered to see how US Federal [...]

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It gives me no pleasure to be in the company of the majority justices in the Supreme Court’s New Haven firefighters decision, Ricci v. DeStefano, (particularly that of Justice Thomas, who only days earlier was the sole justice to support the right of high school administrators to strip search teenage girls in search of pharmaceuticals, [...]

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All Indian Nations have a story of the conquest. For many Western Tribes, like the Apache and the Sioux, the story includes tenacious resistance to European advances and a bitter defeat. For some Eastern tribes, like those historically known, controversially, as the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole – [...]

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I was happy to find that David Letterman has joined the woman hating bigots such as Rush Limbaugh and Gordon Liddy in the NOW Hall of Shame. Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age. [...]

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I wasn’t too surprised that Proposition 8,which defended traditional marriage, passed in California because of the large number of Black and Hispanic Democrats who voted against it. Their votes were actually about how people traditionally live together, and the place of marriage in society, but fifty years after the sexual revolution, one doubts that the [...]

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President Barack Obama today announced his choice of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, as his first selection for the Supreme Court. Citing Christ’s judicial wisdom, impeccable knowledge of the law, and “empathy,” Obama proudly presented his nominee in the East Room of the White House. Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in seizing his microphone to condemn [...]

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Here’s the opening paragraph of a CNN.com article published Wednesday morning (5/27/09): WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Republican Party risks further alienation from Hispanics by challenging the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, who would become the first Hispanic, and third woman, on the Supreme Court. I don’t know about you, but that analysis of the situation, an [...]

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I seethed in anger last March, when Nancy Pelosi helped to jiggle the votes for the Democratic convention so that the super-delegates and the caucuses would be able to nullify the popular votes in the primaries. This enabled the hard left, who had hijacked a lot of the caucuses, to have their candidate Barack Obama [...]

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I am aghast that the so called “catholic Democrats” are dismissing Professor Glendon as a conservative. Actually, she is not a conservative. Even the New York Times noted that she is considered one of the founders of the Communitarian movement, a group that has long been associated with the Democratic party. So, what is a [...]

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I suspect the present day witch-hunt against those who “tortured” has more to do with politics than reality. Why? Because I’m old enough to remember the laments of the Church committee hearings back in the 1970′s. Those hearings resulted in the CIA pulling back from the “hands-on” dirty work of spying, relying more on electronic [...]

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April 8th 2009, a little girl is seen walking down the street with a person seemingly happy and in no danger. There is nothing in the video to suggest that anything is wrong. This little girl could be walking with her sister, cousin, or possibly, though remotely, even her mother. Victoria Stafford does not seem [...]

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I went into my latest Google Alerts and found an article that stood out to me. A boy of eleven who was a football and basketball player and a member of the Boy Scouts. This boy was named Carl Joseph Walker who was in the dawn of life so to speak. I see a picture [...]

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The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson writes a 692-word article on a topic President Barack Obama “just can’t seem to get right.” Is it getting Iran to take him seriously? A bailout exit strategy? What to do with the committed jihadis currently warehoused at Gitmo? No, it’s bowling: A president who this week spoke fluently about [...]

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Why do we need federal laws to make bullying a crime?  And why do we need to require schools to have anti-bullying policies? The saga of Billy Wolfe should be enough to convince you.  Over a year ago, Billy was being bullied relentlessly by two bigger guys from his high school in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  He [...]

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A few days ago, a sister forwarded a plea that I join thousands of Mormons like us in protesting this Sunday’s segment of Big Love, which will include a portrayal of the temple rites practiced and held sacred by faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Instead of training my keyboard [...]

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I am so flippin angry right now I don’t know where to begin. Vincent Li.  That freakish barbaric attack in Winnipeg, has resulted in a hospital stay as punishment for the lunatic guilty of the crime. Vincent Li. Can you believe that? No I mean really, seriously. He is not going to spend one day [...]

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A Love Letter to Black People: Audaciously Hopeful Thoughts on Race and Success by author and award-winning motivational speaker Brian McClellan is a book that has a challenging message for Black people. Like a message given by Bill Cosby not so long ago, Love Letter urges the Black community to abandon outdated attitudes regarding race [...]

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The man FOX network dubbed America’s toughest sheriff, and perhaps the last true 20th century style big city political boss, Arizona’s Sheriff Joseph Arpaio according to reliable reports, is the focus of a multi faceted federal investigation. Till recently “Boss” Arpaio wielded influence in local and state politics comparable to other historical political figures like Chicago’s Richard J. Daley and [...]

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Jimmy Carter has done it again: pushing peace with a murderous government who has a history of killing their political opponents, and who has broken agreements in the past. Jimmy Carter also speaks of hope. In a statement Saturday, the members of The Elders founded by former President Nelson Mandela said they hoped the deal [...]

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Only last week, David Brooks was praising President Obama, and actually cited the fact that he allowed Dr. Mark Dybul to stay as an example of Obama’s bilateral approach to government: Dybul is one of those heroes one meets too rarely in government. He worked as an AIDS doctor in San Francisco in the 1980s [...]

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A small yet growing and surprising diverse chorus of voices is beginning to call for a D.O.J investigation of and if evidence warrants, Criminal prosecution of Mr. George W. Bush and dozens of men and women who served in the executive branch of the United States Government during his presidency. These new calls come in [...]

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I guess I got out of the Federal government’s health system just in time. Obama has stopped the implementation of protections for medical workers who oppose abortion. It won’t get headlines, however: the headlines say “White House stops pending Bush Regulations for Review” … Bush administration include allowing the carrying of concealed weapons in some national parks and prohibiting medical [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix- Lawyers appointed to represent the 8-year-old St. Johns Arizona boy accused of killing his father and another man last month have asked the judge to throw out the boy’s confession, along with evidence gathered at the crime scene. In motions filed this week by attorneys Benjamin Brewer and Ronald Wood, It is [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix- While watching Vice President Richard Cheney offering the obligatory major media exit interviews the last couple weeks, It becomes difficult not to infer he sounds very much like a man who is not the least bit concerned, he may face criminal prosecution for crimes committed against the United States while in office. [...]

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Blogging From Phoenix- President Elect Barack Obama continues to puzzle progressive liberals with his selection of neo-conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren to offer the invocation at his inauguration. The man republicans tagged as the most liberal member of the United States Senate, Has been delighting the opposition with his cabinet choices and the selection of [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix- It seems money was not the only thing George Bush spent eight years borrowing from the Chinese, In what civil libertarians hope is the first of many bipartisan congressional reports into the Bush administrations eight year abuse of civil liberty. A panel of twenty five Senators which included twelve republicans, concluded former [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix- (psburton) Representative Barney Frank joined others this week, in what appears to be a growing chorus of democrats publicly calling on the President Elect, to step up and start voicing his positions on the multitude of crises facing a Nation he will lead in a few short weeks. “We only have one [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix – The United Kingdom, through its Internet service providers has censored Wikipedia, for publishing an article, which included the image of a young naked girl on an album cover. The album “Virgin Killer” was first released in 1976 by the Scorpions. The cover was changed soon after because of the controversy it [...]

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Most of the discussion of racism in the US are “ain’t it awful” laments that ignore the dirty little secret of America: That people face less racism in the US than in the rest of the world, and that racism is a slowly disappearing in the United States. Does racism exist? Yes. But next to [...]

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A leaked June memo, outlining the decision by Mormon Church leadership to use resources and staff in support of California’s Proposition 8, may just eventually end up costing the cult far more than the 20 million or so it spent helping get the ballot initiative passed. I do not know a lot of openly gay [...]

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In the noisy and bitter aftermath of Proposition 8’s failure in California, national protests by gay and straight groups are sweeping the country.  The gay marriage issue isn’t really about marriage, it’s about homosexuality which, like abortion, is viewed by Christians as a moral issue and not a political one. Morality, however, is a fruitless [...]

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Two women activists, Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, remain jailed in a Bulawayo jail after a peaceful protest two weeks ago. The women, members of WOZA, were part of a group demonstrating to pressure the government about aid going to destitute farmers. LINK The KubatanaBlog describes the peaceful protest: On arrival at the Government Complex, [...]

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Conservative talk show hosts are jumping on Barack Obama’s words in a YouTube video of a 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview. Now Conservative talk show hosts are just like Legislators — you can’t trust them to tell the entire truth — don’t listen to them . . . listen to Obama: In this interview, Obama [...]

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The Columbus Dispatch reports that OH officials are looking into whether state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed to dig out personal information about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (AKA “Joe the Plumber”), some of which was used  by the MSM to damage the credibility of this private citizen who dared challenge Sen. Barack Obama on [...]

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Within a few days of the “Joe the Plumber” incident, I was reading about his tax lien, that he lacked a full plumber’s license, and that the plumber currently has an income level that would make him eligible for Obama’s proposed tax cut rather than the tax increase. ABC news then found quotes a lot [...]

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The right wing blogs had their tails in a knot over the weekend about a Missouri prosecutor claiming that “lies” against the candidate would be “prosecuted”. Even Missouri governor Blout got into the act: “What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of [...]

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The single best word to describe this true story of a hate crime surrounded by deceit is riveting. Eyes of a Monster is a morality play that has been personalized by the naivete of its author, taking the reader deeply into the psyche of women who love men on death row. It is a treatise [...]

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Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that in his own way, Trig Palin, too has made history in this election year:   In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights [...]

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John McCain is depending on Palin power to generate the kind of grass roots swell that delivers an upset November 4Th. Even GOP insiders admitted prior to Palins selection, the party strategy was to sandbag downstream and retain as many house and senate seats as possible in the face of an inevitable Obama landslide. What [...]

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Whether it is true or not, that several high ranking democratic party insiders and senior Obama-Biden campaign staffers are privately expressing a sense of growing anxiety over the popularity of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. I speculate the deployment of Hillary Clinton to shore up support amongst women and independents who may account for some of [...]

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