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Court rules state can bar Boy Scouts from charity list Tuesday, July 30, 2002 Associated Press HARTFORD - Connecticut did not violate the rights of the Boy Scouts when it removed the group from a list of charities that state employees contribute to through a payroll deduction plan, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The Connecticut State Employee Campaign Committee removed the Boy Scouts from its list in 2000. The move came after the state's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities found that including the Boy Scouts on the list violated the state's anti-discrimination laws, because of the Scouts'...

It now turns out the same people who are hysterical about the possibility of executing the innocent are also hysterical about the idea of executing the guilty. Unless you are zealously opposed to capital punishment in all cases (except a baby sleeping peacefully in its mother's womb), death row inmate Napoleon Beazley deserves the death penalty. Beazley, 25, is the senior class president with a "ready smile" who put a gun to the head of a 63-year-old man and pulled the trigger. I'm only guessing about the "ready smile" part. Vicious, lumpen predators who would slaughter an old man for ...

The Bill of No Rights (Author Unknown) "We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminal whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal, bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim ...

Who Do They Think They Are? By Wendy Wright February 1, 2000 OK, we’ll let them feed the homeless and help the poor get jobs. They can meet together—as long as they don’t use up too much parking. We’ll even let them acknowledge their faith when they rescue people from a sniper or win a football game. But when those people get involved in politics, well that’s just too much. It’s that time again to vilify Christians who step outside their ghetto. Workers can exercise political muscle through unions. Small businesses join together to make sure their interests are represented. ...