The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against a German home-schooling family who applied for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution. Home-schooling is illegal in Germany and some families have lost custody of their children over the issue. The U.S. grants safe haven to people who have a well-founded fear of persecution, but not necessarily to those under …
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Baggage Fees Boost Airline Profits
Billions of dollars in recently imposed baggage fees and charges for reservation changes are the only thing keeping airlines in the black. The nation’s 15 largest carriers collected a combined $3.5 billion in bag fees in 2012, up 3.8% from 2011, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Fees for changing a reservation totaled $2.6 billion, up 7.3%. The airlines …
Read More »The Worst Room
Here’s a Tumblr devoted to the shittiest apartment shares offered in New York City. Above: “East Village, Manhattan. $700.00. Loft Bed Above Closet in Kitchen.” Not even close to the worst ones on the site. Remember, these are shared apartments. Hit the link for others.
Read More »NOM Issues Money Beg On IRS Claim
“ “Dear Marriage Supporter, Of all the scandals plaguing the Obama administration this week, the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service targeted Tea Party and conservative groups for harassment during the last Presidential election is perhaps the most shocking. But it pales in comparison to what we have been attempting to expose for over a year: that the IRS is …
Read More »OREGON: Bakery Refuses To Make Wedding Cake For Lesbian Couple
Here we go again. Via Oregon’s KATU: A wedding beneath towering Mount Hood, overlooking the swift blue water of the Columbia River in the Gorge, truly felt like a fairy tale for Erin Hanson and Katie Pugh. But when the couple went to find a baker for their wedding cake, they were turned away because they are lesbians. “I found …
Read More »Pat Robertson: Husbands Cheat On Wives Because “Well, They’re Men”
According to the Bible, homosexuality is an abomination worthy of death, but so is heterosexual adultery. Not so in Pat Roberson’s world. Right Wing Watch provides a recap: On today’s 700 Club, Robertson told a woman whose husband was cheating on her that she should stop focusing on the adultery and instead ponder, “Does he provide a home for you …
Read More »Maggie Gallagher: The IRS Got Tricked Into Leaking NOM’s Tax Return
“The IRS is claiming — and I think it is plausible — that low-level employees found a clever way to use their low-level job to influence (they hoped) a U.S. election. Have they been identified and fired? Because otherwise this becomes no longer a low-level problem. (You may recall that a low-level employee also released NOM’s private tax-return information to a guy …
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