I’ve always had the highest respect for Senator John McCain, despite disagreeing with most of his social and political views. He often reminded me of Senator Barry Goldwater, whose political philosophy was diametrically opposed to my own. Goldwater was the type of person who openly and bluntly expressed himself regardless of what voters thought about […]

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Cardinal Janis Pujats, head of the Latvian Catholic Church recently attacked members of Parliament who proposed legislation that would offer protection to gays. The Cardinal is upset at laws that would foster tolerance and respect for the dignity of gays or any other sexual minority.
Information from Baltic Times
I can never comprehend how a leader of […]

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Justice Gina Camillieri of Malta ordered marriage bans for a person who was born as a man but who had his sex switched by a surgical procedure. Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Bonnici agreed to enforce the judge’s decision.

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Jorge Rojas, head of Chile’s police force for western Santiago promised to investigate charges that police have been attacking gays. According to the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Freedom (MOVILH) police recently entered a night club and began beating up gays. A man heard a policeman say: “You are the scum of society, you two […]

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The Home Office in England is determined to tighten up immigration policies as part of the response against terrorism. It now insists that refugees who fled the horror of Darfur will be perfectly safe if returned to Khartoum. Mohammed Abdulhadi Ali, who watched his relatives slaughtered and his village burned to the ground, doesn’t quite […]

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Finland during the past decade has witnessed an influx of diverse people resulting in an increase of racist activities. In a recent study of 669 racist crimes identified in 2005, only twenty-five people were convicted, resulting in twelve people receiving fines. The majority of racist crimes reported are assaults on people, vandalism, defamation and threats. […]

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Reduces expenditures for Psychiatric Care
Reduces expenditures for Residential Care
Reduces expenditures for research in: Aging, Cancer, Kidney diseases, Diabetes, Lung disorders, Heart disease, and Digestive diseases

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State Senator Steve Hobbs, a DEMOCRAT, who already has served in Iraq for several months, introduced a bill in the State Senate of Washington that would add “honorably discharged veterans or military status” to a state law that already bans discrimination in housing, employment and insurance based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, […]

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An Air Force nursing reservist filed a lawsuit against Sutter Health claiming she was fired from her job as an administrator with the hospital because she was deployed to Iraq. Lt. Col. Debra Muhl was told she was fired after informing her superiors in December, 2005, that her tour of duty was to being the […]

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All branches of the armed forces grant officers rating of 50% or higher than enlisted personnel. The Military Times dug through five years of reports from the Department of Dense Office of the Actuay and discovered the average payment for a disabled Air Force officer in 2005 was $2,604 a month, about $6000 more than […]

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