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New York Times (Americas)
- Secret Service Director to Testify That Security Was Not Breached in Scandal May 22, 2012Testimony Wednesday for a Senate committee will be the director’s first public comments on the scandal. […]
- From Honduras, Conflicting Tales of a Shootout May 22, 2012Some Honduran officials and residents have said that the victims of a fatal gun battle last week were innocent people, challenging the account of American drug enforcement agents. […]
- World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Rebels Attack Troops From Venezuela May 22, 2012Fighters from Colombia’s main leftist rebel movement attacked an army patrol from Venezuelan territory on Monday, killing at least 12 soldiers and wounding 4 others, Colombian officials said. […]
- World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: 8 Held in Investigation of Dismembered Bodies May 22, 2012The army said it had detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs and weapons during investigations into last week’s discovery of dismembered bodies on a Mexican highway. […]
- World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: An Apology for Torture May 22, 2012The Rio de Janeiro State government said Friday that it would apologize to President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the dictatorship that ruled Brazil. […]
Ben Stein on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary
by Dan Calloway
Published August 30, 2009 at 5:50pm EST; The Chronicler’s Web
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
Ben Stein
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu .. If people want a crèche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat. (more…)