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BY DON SORCHYCH | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Cave Creek dilemmas
Now that Usama Abujbarah has filed his notice of claim against Cave Creek and slate officials, the clock is ticking toward a 60 day response to his assertions. The town has a choice of paying Abujbarah’s legal costs and reinstating him or proceeding with the lawsuit.
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BY DR. GARY WELTON | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Living our lives "under God"
The American Humanist Association has renewed the efforts of some atheists to remove the words “under God” from our Pledge of Allegiance. The organization argued recently in the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the inclusion of these words is a violation of atheists’ religious liberty and equality.
BY RICK MANNING | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Obama’s closing of America: Keystone’s fifth birthday
More than five years ago, the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline to transfer oil from a fertile Canadian field to American refineries was filed with the U.S. State Department.
The application still languishes in the Obama Administration.
BY JOAN SWIRSKY, TPATH CONTRIBUTOR | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
“Rotten to the Core” – what you need to know about Common Core
TPATH – In July, the state of New York announced the results of its first tests based on the Common Core: The region hasn't been this battered since Superstorm Sandy. Just 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade passed the English exam, and only 30 percent passed the math test. In one Harlem school, just seven percent of students received passing scores in English, and 10 percent in math. We've gone from No Child Left Behind to Well-Just-About-Every-Child-Left-Behind ... progress of a kind.
BY LARRY BELL | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Sermonizing at the church of the burning planet
Bummer! Now, just before members of the UN's Church of the Burning Planet are scheduled to finalize their latest hellfire and brimstone sermon, a chilling development has occurred. A flood of blasphemous reports circulated among ranks of former faithful parishioners are challenging human-caused climate crisis theology.
