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Sep 29 2021
News
Getting A Religious Exemption To A Vaccine Mandate May Not Be Easy. Here's Why
More and more employers are ordering workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 without the option of getting tested instead. Now workers are pushing back.
In Washington, D.C., more than 400 fire and emergency medical workers applied for religious exemptions to the city's vaccine mandate. In Los Angeles, roughly a quarter of the police department is expected to seek religious exemptions
NPR (Online News)Mar 24 2021
News
Would stronger hate crime laws help prevent violence?
Authorities in Georgia drew intense criticism this week when they announced the shootings at three Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead — including six women of Asian descent — may not qualify as a hate crime. The suspect, a white man, told law enforcement he was motivated by a desire to rid himself of “sexual addiction” rather than animus toward Asian women, a spokesman for the local
Yahoo! The 360Jul 25 2022
News
The Biden White House Is Going to Do Everything It Can to Avoid Saying 'Recession' This Week
It’s here. You’ve all known for months that the country was barreling towards a recession. Everyone feels it. Americans have been seeing their paychecks get cannibalized by inflation. Filling up one’s gas tank could be a budget-busting move. Yet, the Biden team, like their boss, exhibits a dementia-like persona when peddling their talking points about the state of the economy. This isn’t the
TownhallDec 24 2021
Opinion
The truth is that our citizens are not polarized
There are two problems with the conventional wisdom about polarization in American society. The first is that it mistakes widespread conflict with one master battle between conservatives and liberals. The second is that it overlooks a large percentage of Americans who do not identify with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
The result of these two mistakes is the ongoing,
The FulcrumMar 03 2022
News
Jan. 6 committee says it has evidence Trump committed crimes in bid to overturn election
The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots says it has evidence that former President Donald Trump and his campaign team committed crimes in their efforts to overturn the presidential election results.
The Democratic-dominated special committee made the charge in court filings made public late Wednesday.
“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for
Washington TimesApr 28 2022
News
Disgraced general to far-right hero: Michael Flynn rides the next wave
Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is rallying the faithful and looking to future elections. He’s become an icon for a GOP base that’s increasingly suspicious of a corrupt “deep state” and elites.
The sun has already set outside the white-walled church as Michael Flynn walks onstage. The crowd inside the 1,100-capacity auditorium has thinned some after 10 hours of speeches
Christian Science MonitorApr 05 2022
Opinion
Can Elon Musk Save Free Speech Online?
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and most interesting CEO, wants to save democracy. And he is putting his money where his mouth is. A federal securities filing on Monday revealed that Musk has taken a 9 percent stake in Twitter, making the Tesla boss the social-media giant’s single largest shareholder. The move followed several tweets over the past few months in which Musk hinted he is
The American ConservativeJul 27 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Restoring religious liberty
One of the greatest things about America is our constitutionally protected right to practice our faith and live out our religious beliefs free from interference by our government. Unfortunately, over the last few decades our nation has seen a wave of attacks against religious freedom — from government overreach to activist judges and others who wish to remove more elements of faith from our
Washington TimesAug 27 2019
News
Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most
The values that Americans say define the national character are changing, as younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey finds.
The poll is the latest sign of difficulties the 2020 presidential candidates will likely face in crafting a unifying message for a
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 17 2020
News
India hospital segregates Muslim and Hindu coronavirus patients
In what many are calling a case of "apartheid" during a global pandemic, a government-run hospital in Ahmedabad, the main city in the western Indian state of Gujarat, has segregated coronavirus patients based on their religion, claiming the order came from the government.
"Generally, there are separate wards for male and female patients. But here, we have made separate wards for Hindu
Al Jazeera