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Calling the approval of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts "the straw that broke the camel's back," a group of Christian activists is in the beginning stages of an effort to have one state secede from the United States to become its own sovereign nation. "Our Christian republic has declined into a pagan democracy," says Cory Burnell, president of ChristianExodus.org, a non-profit corporation based in Tyler, Texas. "There are some issues people just can't take anymore, and [same-sex marriage] might finally wake up the complacent Christians." Burnell is leading the charge for a peaceful secession of one state from the union, and...

<p>SOUTH HADLEY -- When Naeema Hernandez arrived for her first year at Mount Holyoke College, she was welcomed by a campus that, for two days, had no white American students at all.</p> <p>"You're scared when you first come in, and you have questions like, `Is there a lot of racism here?' " said Hernandez, now a sophomore, who is from New York and identifies herself as African-American.</p>

Georgian Survivor Shevardnadze in Biggest Challenge Sat Nov 22, 3:44 PM ET TBILISI (Reuters) - Eduard Shevardnadze, whose wily skills helped him oversee the end of the Cold War and restore post-Soviet order in his homeland, faced his biggest challenge on Saturday after his rivals proclaimed his overthrow. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of Communism over a decade ago, protesters stormed parliament and forced him to flee after a parliamentary election which the opposition said was rigged. Shevardnadze, who survived two assassination attempts in the 1990s, responded by declaring a state of emergency and accusing his opponents of mounting...

Victor Davis Hanson says he didn't actually want to write a book about immigration. But when his editor suggested it, he decided the issue needed to be addressed. It's the 800-pound gorilla nobody's talking about, he says.Hanson has been a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, since 1985 and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent work is "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming." He discussed it recently with IBD.IBD: How exactly is immigration changing California?Hanson: It used to be done in a way that was legal and measured, and allowed the natural process of...

WE are frequently told by the Scottish Nationalists that it is time Scotland took its place in the world as a fully independent nation. The SNP is fond of citing the so-called "velvet divorce" that led to the separation of the Czech Republic from Slovakia as an example of civilised secession. Yet they are not so keen to draw our attention to events that do not fit their world view. Amid the stories of war, the threat of Sars and even the Scottish election you would be forgiven for missing an event of great relevance to Scots politics. Last week,...

From the article (bolding mine): ----------------- Chicano Park can feature the word Aztlán after all.Caltrans will allow proposed art featuring the Chicano term to remain in a $600,000 federally funded plan to renovate the aging park. The word refers to U.S. land that once belonged to Mexico.The state Department of Transportation had questioned whether spending federal money on projects featuring Aztlán could violate grant-related civil rights laws...Aztlán will now be spelled out prominently with colored rocks along a section of the park near Logan Avenue. The Chicano Park logo, which features a map of the United States with the word...