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  • August 2008

    • Obama's Accepting Outlook Forged in Diverse Hawaii

      Associated Press  |  Aug 7, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      Obama's Accepting Outlook Forged in Diverse Hawaii

      (Newser) - Barack Obama spent his formative years in Hawaii and islanders say the unique and diverse nature of the 50th state helped shape the candidate's outlook on life, the AP reports. Obama's racial identity was forged in the state where everybody belongs to a minority group, and the accomodating nature of island politics helped shape his policial outlook. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hawaii  • tolerance  • ethnic diversity

  • May 2008

    • Peggy Noonan, for One, Is Not Offended

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 2, 08 6:11 PM CDT

      Peggy Noonan, for One, Is Not Offended

      (Newser) - Peggy Noonan wonders if there's something wrong with her for not being upset over Jeremiah Wright’s extremist sermons. No, she decides in the Wall Street Journal , she just doesn’t “think his views carry deep implications for our country”—and indeed understands the bitterness, drawing on the experiences of a young Irish-American friend who still likes to sing about rising up against the British. More »

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      Jeremiah Wright  • Peggy Noonan  • anger  • tolerance

  • October 2007

    • O'Reilly Frets Over Outing of Wizard

      Media Matters  |  Oct 26, 07 7:58 PM CDT

      O'Reilly Frets Over Outing of Wizard

      (Newser) - Perhaps worried that JK Rowling has opened the closet too widely, Bill O'Reilly has made Albus Dumbledore's outing a frequent topic this week, bemoaning the promotion of “parity for homosexuals with heterosexuals.” Calling the Harry Potter author a “provocateur,” the Fox anchor says adults are worried about the “indoctrination of their children,” Media Matters transcripts reveal. More »

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      Harry Potter  • homosexuality  • Bill O'Reilly  • tolerance  • Albus Dumbledore

  • August 2007

    • German Leaders Reject Scientology Ban

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 8, 07 1:30 PM CDT

      German Leaders Reject Scientology Ban

      (Newser) - German leaders say they won't press for a ban on Scientology—not because they're against it, but because they don't think it would succeed. The German government officially considers the organization a cult, Der Spiegel reports, but politicians from both major parties say that they probably don't have enough evidence to take their case to court. More »

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      Germany  • religion  • Scientology  • ban  • tolerance

    • Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

      Slate  |  Aug 7, 07 2:47 PM CDT

      Editor's Murder Shows Failure of Tolerance

      (Newser) - The notoriously irreligious Christopher Hitchens decries the Oakland police's tolerance of Your Black Muslim Bakery, one of whose employees has been arrested for the murder of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. In an op-ed for Slate Hitchens writes that the bakery is in fact a front for jihadism and that Bay Area law enforcement is guilty of "official apathy— amounting to collusion." More »

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      murder  • racism  • Muslim  • jihad  • Oakland  • Christopher Hitchens  • Chauncey Bailey  • tolerance  • Your Black Muslim Bakery

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