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Dammit, CVS Doesn’t Always Have Cherry Coke

Friday, October 26, 2007 – 12:25 pm

I may have implied (alright, clearly stated) that I would stop shopping at Rite Aid when they made the corporate decision to allow pharmacists to not dispense Plan B, but I haven’t stuck with that very well, mainly because the one at 13th & U is the closest drug store to my house. Maybe […]

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US Airways Hates Muslims

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 – 4:41 pm

We’re at the point where Muslims are being barred from planes simply for being Muslim:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called Tuesday for an investigation into the behavior of airline staff and airport security in the removal of six Muslim scholars from a US Airways flight a day earlier.
A passenger raised concerns about the imams […]

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Fighting For Equal Rights

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 – 12:19 pm

I get the feeling that a lot of people who would support gay marriage in principle don’t necessarily see it as a cause for which it’s worth fighting. The battle just doesn’t seem as important as other civil rights issues. Here’s why those people are wrong:
When same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, […]

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Manassas Tries To Put Virginia Firmly Back In The “Deep South” Column

Monday, October 16, 2006 – 5:03 pm

Manassas, recently in the news for attempting to rid the town of illegal immigrants, has now declared war on the gays as well:
In the past three years, the Manassas City Council has received two applications for home-based massage therapy businesses, and members have approved both. Then Howard Daniel, who is gay, applied.
The backlash against […]

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An Increase In Anti-Muslim Incidences

Monday, September 18, 2006 – 6:44 pm

Bad news from the Post:
Complaints of anti-Muslim harassment, violence and discriminatory treatment registered with a national Muslim civil rights group jumped 30 percent in 2005 from the previous year, the group said today in releasing its annual report .
Something is seriously wrong in this country…
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