Christianpost Article

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – "The government of President Evo Morales wants to end religious education in public schools and strike Roman Catholicism as the country's official religion, a proposal apt to meet great resistance."

WorldNetDaily: Homeschoolers take case to Human Rights Court

"Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, even if parents object to institutional education for religious reasons. Many Christians, however, are defying legal requirements. Some have been fined or incarcerated after refusing to pay the fines. It is estimated at least 1,000 children in Germany are taught by their parents."

lgf: Honor Killing Family Guitly in Denmark

"The High Court of Eastern Denmark delivered a ‘guilty’ verdict on Tuesday to all nine defendants in the most far-reaching honour killing ever tried in Europe. The verdict is considered a landmark finding, since not only the brother who fired the gun that killed Ghazala Khan was found guilty. The court also found Ghazala’s father and seven others guilty of conspiring to murder the young Pakistani woman and her husband for disobeying orders not to marry last September. Jurors determined that a group of uncles, aunts and acquaintances apparently plotted to lure the couple to the train station of Slagelse in western Zealand, where the brother waited with a loaded gun. Ghazala suffered fatal wounds while her newly wed husband narrowly escaped death."

WorldNetDaily: Gang expert backs Tancredo charges

WASHINGTON – "Rep. Tom Tancredo's charge that Mexican drug cartels are buying up legitimate businesses in U.S. cities to launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and personnel decisions of their police forces, has been backed up by a veteran gang investigator."

The American Thinker: Blogger arrested for home-schooling children?

Read about the Belgian bloggerm, supporting free markets in the EU, who was arrested for home-schooling his children. Also interesting aside on the efforts by the UN to thwart home-schooling (and essentially all parenting) through its Rights of the Child inititive.

Telegraph | News | Civil servants 'jumped naked off filing cabinets'

"Staff at a government agency office have been reported leaping naked from filing cabinets and carrying out stomach-churning pranks.

Civil servants are said to have had sex in the lavatories, taken drugs, used foul language, brawled in the reception area and held break-dancing contests in working hours.

Some of the goings-on at the Rural Payments Agency, a branch of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in Lancaster House, Newcastle upon Tyne, are believed to have been captured on CCTV."

Australia Strikes Down Law Recognizing Same-Sex Unions

CANBERRA, Australia, June 13, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "The Australian government has followed through on its pledge to quash a law recognizing same-sex unions in the Australian Capital Territory.

Attorney General Philip Ruddock drew on rarely used Commonwealth authority Tuesday, asking Governor-General Michael Jeffrey, Australia's representative of Queen Elizabeth II, who is Australia's official head of state under the terms of the nation's consitutional monarchy, to declare the law invalid."

WorldNetDaily: Ann Coulter banned in New Jersey?

"Two Democrats – Assemblywomen Joan Quigley and Linda Stender – are pushing to ban "Godless" from all bookstores in their state because of Coulter's biting criticism of four 9-11 widows known as "the Jersey Girls," who demanded investigations into President Bush's role in allowing the terrorist attacks."

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Stalking Horse for Global Taxes by Joseph Klein

France, Brazil, Chile and Norway instituting global tax to benefit the U.N.

"Global taxes are all about ensuring what Kofi Annan has called "a constant stream of money" to keep replenishing the UN’s coffers. Annan likes this idea because it reduces his dysfunctional organization’s financial dependency on the American people, whom his chief deputy, Mark Malloch Brown, arrogantly derided in a speech before an elitist progressive audience in Manhattan on June 6th for ‘Middle America’s’ supposed ignorance about the U.N. Annan thinks such financial dependence creates “a democracy deficit in the way we govern the United Nations.”

Chavez: Carlos the Jackal 'a good friend' - Yahoo! News

CARACAS, Venezuela - "President Hugo Chavez brought up Carlos the Jackal during a meeting of oil producers Thursday, calling the Venezuela-born terrorist who once took hostages at an OPEC meeting "a good friend."

WorldNetDaily: Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter

"[Jimmy]Carter met with 10 of Osama bin Laden's brothers early in 2000. The former president and his wife, Rosalyn, followed up the meeting with a breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in September 2000 and secured the first $200,000 towards the more than $1 million that has gone to the Carter Center."

WorldNetDaily: Public tax dollars fund racist school

"Taxpayers along with radical groups that aim to reconquer the Southwestern U.S. are funding a Hispanic K-8 school led by a principal who believes in racial segregation and sees the institution as part of a larger cultural "struggle."