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• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • Nick, I am not an atheist, but I do know enough to realize that it is untrue that atheists have no belief set. They believe that there is no God. What else they believe, I do not know.

• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • Are you serious? "She brought [the death threats] on herself" ...? Are you telling us that it's okay to threaten a young woman's life if she is trying to exercise her rights under the U.S. Constitution? Talk about blaming the victim ... sheesh!

• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • I'm not sure you get it. What is she trying to impose? Removal of something that is against the law doesn't seem much of an imposition, does it?

• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • But this is an apples and oranges comparison. Crosses at the sides of roads where people have died are not the same as plaques placed on the wall in schools.

• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • Your freedom of speech extends only until it infringes upon mine. Period. Until and unless I ask you for your opinion, your freedom of speech does not include telling me about your religion. Period. The same rules apply to me.

• Atheist teen forces school to remove prayer from wall after 49 years

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • The term "wall of separation between church and state" comes from the writings of Thomas Jefferson, one of the main authors of the Constitution.

• First Thoughts: The race is on

  Sun Jan 22, 2012
  • Gingrich has class? Then I'm George Washington.Obamacare? Have you no concept of reality? It is Americancare. Somebody, maybe named Barack Obama, cares a whit about the American people. Obviously, the Republicans don't. Yes, the military carried out President Obama's order to take care of Osama.

• Feds: Religious employers must cover the pill

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • The worn out argument, "You can go get another job!" is from another time. Let it go. The reality is that if you have a job that has medical benefits, you don't really have many options.

• Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless?

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • This is exactly what has happened with e-books in general. At first, they sold at a substantial discount, but now they're pushing the same cost as paper books. So who really gains by going to e-books? Hmm, not you or me!

• Apple vs. the textbook: Can education go paperless?

  Thu Jan 19, 2012
  • Before using Quicken, I rarely (very rarely) balanced my checkbook. I now do it regularly, can track exactly where my money goes, can easily do my taxes, and a plethora of related things I never did before 15 years ago. I do this on a computer.