Gays In The Military?
It's happening again. Seventeen years ago a charismatic young Democratic won the White House promising to end discrimination against gays in the military. Thinking it was a shoe-in, Bill Clinton underestimated the opposition. He overpromised and under-delivered, and in waffling on the issue, pushed equality down the road for what might ...
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April 4, 2009
The God Delusion
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy ...
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February 17, 2009
Darwin Usurped By Modern Medicine
It's a boy! And another boy... and a girl, and another boy - and a whole lot of hypocrisy. Will someone please explain the outcry regarding mommy dearest in California? I thought we couldn't eject enough of these little bundles of joy into the world? Don't get me wrong, I love kids just ...
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February 15, 2009
Name That Flag!
Not Sure? Read on to find out. Shame on us. Shame on this county's education system. Sometimes we wonder why the rest of the world has a problem with America... Here's an interactive map of the Middle East - you know, the part of the world that we are at war with and ...
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January 21, 2009
Is Barack Obama Really Our first African-American President?
Today was a truly incredible day. And here at Stop The World, we're colossal fans of Barack Obama. But is he really our first African-American president? The truth is that he is neither black nor white. His father was black and his mother was white. Is he then a black man ...
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January 20, 2009
No heroics, thank you.
Less than a minute after US Airways Flight 1549 to Charlotte, N.C. took off, Captain Sullenberger reported a "double bird strike" and asked to return to the ground. Minutes later, the plane was floating along the Hudson River. One hates to be a party pooper in the face of such an ...
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January 17, 2009
Are Humans A Virus On The Earth?
"Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999..." And so we did. As website Day of 6 Billion notes, the human world population reached a staggering six billion on or around October 12, 1999. And for some reason, instead of this being a sobering moment of world reflection, we jumped up and ...
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November 23, 2008
When Guns Become Household Objects
They used to call it the Wild West. And apparently, not much has changed. Yep, out there in Cowboy Town USA they teach their young-uns how to shoot varmints real early. And in Arizona last week, an eight year old did just that when he shot his father and lodger ...
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November 12, 2008
Barack Obama: “New Rules” (Bill Maher Watch Out…)
New Rule: Stop saying that the election of a black man or a woman to the highest office in the land "could only happen in America." Obama's election is historic in many ways, but the United States is hardly breaking new ground by having a minority leader. The UK elected ...
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November 11, 2008
A Touch of Class, Part II
Hard to believe I know, but summer will soon be over and Fall will be here again. Beautiful vistas like this one will soon be common place in the north east. Just look at the color of those leaves! Hold on, what the... Can you even believe... Those scallywags are drinking Jack Daniels ...
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August 22, 2008
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