APLEblog.com

Ron Paul supporters are the most dedicated of all the candidate supporters in the 2012 Republican Primary. They are known by their constant insistence that a mix of government debt, Federal Reserve policies and a departure from the Constitution will destroy America. The Apostles of Paul speak with confidence, and they are prepared to handle every party-affiliation on the political spectrum by the script. Like Jehovah Witnesses they are constantly seeking to convert unbelievers, providing a litany of Youtube docudramas to back it up. In all fairness, the Youtube docudramas are used with the utmost care, reserved for only the toughest, but slightly susceptible voters. And when asked why no other candidate is speaking about these topics, they point to conspiracies and rich families controlling the media. Nonetheless every conversation ends with some sort of variation of, “Ron Paul is the only one.”

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Gov. Brewer and AG Holder from left to right, (photo: tmp)

A year and a half ago, I published an article on this blog called, “Arizona Law will be found unconstitutional?” The article is about the immigration-type law, S.B. 1070, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010 which was intended to curb the influx of undocumented aliens coming into Arizona or as Gov. Brewer put it, to protect Arizonans from the “murderous greed of drug cartels” and “destruction happening south of our international border that creeps its way north.” (more…)

Haaretz.com

A court in Israel rejected a family’s request to fertilize the eggs of their daughter who was reportedly brain dead when her eggs were extracted from her body.  Seventeen year old Chen (Hen) Aida Ayish, was declared brain dead as a result of injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

In a ruling which many believe set worldwide precedence, the court gave Chen’s family permission to extract and donate Chen’s organs, and harvest and store her eggs, but stopped short of granting their request to fertilize Chen’s eggs with sperm taken from another dead body. It was reported that the Court denied the parent’s request to fertilize the eggs because the parents could not show that Chen had ever expressed intent to have a child.

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Don Lemon-CNN

The article by CNN Anchor, Don Lemon, in the July, 2011 issue of Essence Magazine left many Black women feeling disappointed. Lemon came out of the closet and publicly admitted he is gay a few months ago.

So when his article, “To My Beautiful Black Sisters” was published in Essence, many of us thought that Don used that title because he wanted to talk to us about the distressing situation in which we find ourselves, and the impact that our brothers who are gay may have on our circumstances.  But he didn’t. Instead, the article turned out to be all about Don and his new book.

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