Church versus state

It's not just Islamic mosques that run into problems with neighbors who fear them and use zoning laws and lawsuits to get rid of them.

LINK LINK LINK LINK and probably lots more if you check local papers.

That is why the US Congress passed a law allowing places of worship to be built despite local zoning laws...
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The hoity toity are picking on Michelle again.
They wanted to be treated like royalty, not like a mere guest.

Hey, at least they didn't hang your flag upside down.

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the New Yorker has rumors Obama's father was murdered.

Well, he was in the opposition, and therefore thrown out of work, but he also witnessed a political murder, and after that started really drinking heavily for fear he was the next one on their list.

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The rejection of "multiculturalism" in Germany is ominous, not because of Hitler, but because of the Treaty of Trianon.
There were huge population shifts of minorities after World War I, when the "multicultural" Austria-Hungary and Ottoman empires dissolved.
And Germans should remember the Germans who were thrown out of Czeckoslovakia and western Poland after World War II ...

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The "good" news of the day: Supertyphoon hits Philippines, only 12 dead.

The bad news? Lots of almost ready to harvest rice might have been destroyed by the storm.