The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog group, is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to reinstate the Foundation’s legal challenge over creation of …
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This is an excerpt of the thorough, 23-page “friend of the court” brief filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Thomas Van …
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By Martin Boyd, M.D. “With Special Forces Training Group at Ft. Bragg, N.C., around 1968-69.” I’m the eldest of five children born in Albuquerque, N.M., to a Seventh-day Adventist couple. …
By Dan Barker The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in April commemorating songwriter Yip Harburg, born on April 8, 1896. The ceremony launching the first-class stamp will be …
Jesse Card, of Everett, Washington, received a variation of the Student Activist Award in July 2004, when he was named “Young Activist” at the Pacific Northwest Mini-Convention of the Freedom …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is debuting an energetic new musical CD, “Beware of Dogma,” produced by staff musician Dan Barker, which features 16 songs. The professionally-produced CD, with instrumental …
Associated Press reporter Anne Gearan wrote: “Newdow, a lawyer, made the rare and usually foolhardy decision to argue his own case before the court. He withstood the justices’ vigorous questions, …
The New York Times’ veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse termed Michael Newdow’s oral argument before the Supreme Court on March 24 “spell-binding.” Wrote Greenhouse: “no one who managed to get …
By Annie Laurie Gaylor The Associated Press ran a charming photograph in March of the beaming Mayor of San Francisco beside two blushing brides–dressed identically in light veils and strapless …
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