This primary season, which slides for home March 3, one candidate, James Talerico, 36, is going around with a Bible in one hand and a peace-and-love sign in the other, hoping that will bring him victory.
After almost 250 years since the founding of the U.S., it’s safe to say that the great experiment didn’t work.
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was proposed by Democrat Representative Chuck Schumer and Democrat Senator Edward Kennedy in 1994 as a result of threats and/or violence directed at abortion providers. Republicans backed the bill but required that it not only protect abortion clinics but also churches. As a result it was made illegal to block clinic or church entrances, demonstrate on clinic or church property, act violently against those patronizing abortion clinics or churches, or threaten those people. By extension, certain other acts also came to be prohibited. Reporters for Internet blogs were arrested if they filmed people entering abortion clinics. The rationale was that the filming itself tended to cause people to fear for their safety (and that blog reporters were biased and probably not really true reporters). An average of about ten people a year have been arrested down through the years for violation of the F.A.C.E. Act. All or nearly all have been arrested for actions against abortion clinics rather than churches. The act itself has been somewhat controversial (not for what it prohibits but for some of the extensions made by government officials which have tended to limit freedom of speech).
At least 11 people have died in Texas, nearly half of them children, after Winter Storm Fern swept the state last week, the Texas Standard reported. Among those killed were three young brothers who fell through ice on a private pond near Bonham, about 60 miles northeast of Texas. In the Dallas suburb of Frisco, two teens died after a sledding accident. They were riding on a sled being pulled by a vehicle.
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