9-0! In what may be its most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time recognized a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss their leaders without government interference… The administration had told the justices that
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Good News: SCOTUS finds “ministerial exception” to job discrimination laws for religious organizations
AP – The Obama administration is denouncing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for questioning whether the U.S. might be behind a rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders.
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From John Hawkins, who’s been one of the leaders of the “Not Romney” movement, at Right Wing News .
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7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney’s Electability Is a Myth
A stressful situation. At New York Times , ” Italy’s Leader Unveils Radical Austerity Measures .” The country’s new welfare minister, Elsa Fornero, a pension expert, choked with emotion at the news conference as she explained how Italians would be asked to sacrifice today in order to make the pension system less “arbitrary” and “more equitable” for future generations. Also, at Business Week , ” European Leaders Take Another Run at Fixing Crisis This Week .” And Telegraph UK , ” Merkel and Sarkozy meet for make-or-break euro rescue talks .”
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Prime Minister Mario Monti Calls Cabinet to Consider Emergency Austerity Measures
News flowing in fast and furious this morning. Gaddafi captured. Gaddafi alive. Gaddafi dead. Here’s the latest from Reuters : Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said. His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen. “He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.” Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi, who was in his late 60s, was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked. He said he had been taken away by an ambulance. There was no independent confirmation of his remarks. Here’s a link to the graphic photo purportedly of the slain Libyan dictator.
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Reports: Gaddafi dead
