1 Sorry, but I'm with the ACLU on the item posted above. As a Jew, I'd rather not swear on the New Testament. I can perfectly understand if a Muslim wishes to swear on a copy of the Koran. This is a case of simple religious tolerance and respect, not some creeping anti-christian bias. The judge is genuinely in breach of the Establishment Clause.

2 If the Dems go with Hillary it's a looser. They need new blood not the same old tired people they have now. Gingrich looks pretty good. I like him. I like McCain too. Already we have way better candidates. Even if ya don't like McCain he'll smoke Clinton. She's more of a turn off than Bill.

3 The last two chapters of a review of Weigel's book "The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics without God": "In the book’s closing chapters, Weigel entertains a series of possible outcomes for Europe. The chances of the EU’s dream of a post-Christian perpetual peace are slim to none; Weigel more realistically predicts that Europe’s various muddles will persist into the foreseeable future. He finds hope for Continental renewal in the still active Catholicism of Central and Eastern European nations, and in a Continent-wide critical mass of energetic Catholic youth rejecting the wayward wobbles of recent generations for the deep reserves of Christian Europe. The darkest possible outcome, according to Weigel, would be “1683 Reversed”: the continued large-scale immigration into Europe of Muslims armed with very different ideas about religion and politics. If current trends continue, these immigrants would encounter a Continent equipped to welcome them with only self-inflicted cultural amnesia, watery pluralism, and mundane humanism. Passion for the crescent would overwhelm indifference to the Cross, and these new Europeans would take charge of a demographic and democratic wasteland. This last matter suggests most immediately why Americans have a stake in Europe’s future: Though it would take decades for such a situation to develop, a Europe potentially defined from its leadership down by a broadly anti-Western Muslim majority would pose striking civilizational challenges to the U.S. Yet for all his concern and complaint, Weigel refuses to abandon Europe to itself, and he demands the same of his readers — specifically in how we understand our own historical formation. Though patriotic amnesiacs may resist him, Weigel emphasizes that the success of the American experiment owes a great deal to the influence of Old World civilization. While qualifications and refusals of this fact have been made from Emerson’s time through our own, The Cube and the Cathedral makes powerfully clear the self-destructive consequences of squandering one’s inheritance."

4 ericj, if you follow the link you will find nowhere that I am against people swearing on the Koran. A liar will lie on whatever book you put in front of them. I just simply think it is hypocritical they fight Christianity symbols in the Court rooms but push Islam.

5 A muslim swearing on the koran that calls for the destruction of other religions. Good thinking Eric. All he needs is a fatwa from a bearded old uneducated goat herder saying its excusable. Why use any book? What's the matter with I swear to tell the truth and I better not get caught lying?

6 Eric: If you can side with the ACLU. I can side with the Palestinians. Occasionally the Palestinians make sense. The ACLU never does.

7 Oh, that's rich. Swear on a book that clearly states that it's okay to lie to the infidel. We're much better off simply saying we know if we get caught lying, then by the laws of this country, we're going to jail.

8 Yeah Joan Beaz listen to this dim-bulb and listen to this other dim-bulb sheenan blather blather blather cluck cluck cluck

9 People Keep on learnin' Soldiers Keep on Warrin' Was in fact made famous by Stevie Wonder and then covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not that I'm picking nits or anything.