The nation's largest public policy women's organization is appalled that leading feminists, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, continue to give Muslims a pass when it comes to their treatment of women.  ( Hillary mum on Islam's treatment of women  )

"Hillary Clinton has a responsibility, not only as a leader of the feminist movement, but [also] as the secretary of state of the United States, to speak out against forces that are damaging and destructive to the United States. And she has the ability -- because she is our main ambassador to other countries -- to defend the dignity of women," Wright adds.

"Mexican-Americans are not going to take this lying down," singer Linda Ronstadt, a Tucson native, said at a news conference on a lawsuit planned by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center.

Colombian singer Shakira visited Phoenix to meet the city's police chief and mayor amid her concerns the measure would violate human and civil rights.

"It goes against all human dignity." she said.

At the Billboard Latin Music Awards ceremony in Puerto Rico, singer Ricky Martin denounced the law, too, saying it "makes no sense."

(Read more of this news report Entertainers speak out. I hope those who support this new law will give their business to the different companys from AZ. They need our support. Also is anyone gettin  tired of entertainers telling us how we should think of course we know freedom of speach doesn't go for those entertainers who happen to think the way  those of us on the right does. And I am getting tired of those against this law saying it will hurt human rights or it is something like Hitler would do. Those of us who America  citzens have to keep our Drivers Liceense or other documents saying we are who we say we are. So why shouldn't there be a  law apply to those who aren't citzens. My guess is to most of us that is a no brainer but not to those in Washington.)

(  China to start global 24-hour English TV news...    )

 Starting Saturday, China Xinhua News Network Corp. (CNC) will begin trial broadcasts of its English TV service around the clock, including news segments, feature stories, weather updates and special bulletins, the official Xinhua News agency said. The channel is officially set to launch on July 1. The agency did not immediately say what countries would receive the channel.

"CNC will offer an alternative source of information for a global audience and aims to promote peace and development by interpreting the world in a global perspective," Xinhua quoted its President Li Congjun as telling a launching ceremony in Beijing.

 

(The Fox News  network says they give you both sides this network should say we will only give you one side. Just like in China  they will not talk about those who are against communist government unless it is in a negative way. )

The court also said a provision that allocated an additional $1 million for scholarships to the pharmacy school at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky., was unconstitutional.

Justice Lisabeth Abramson upheld a 2008 ruling by a circuit court judge that said the appropriations by the legislature in 2006 violated state laws that ban public financing of "any church, sectarian or denominational school."

(Well my tax money and the tax money of other people  of faith is used to pay for schools that teach things I don't believe in. Still I think it is better that faith based schools and ministries not take government money because if you take their  money they might start telling you how to do things. It is better to depend on God than take Uncle Sam's money. Read more of the above story Court denies funding for Baptist school.)

Actress Dixie Carter, age 70, died earlier this month, best known as the tart tongued southern liberal on the popular 1986-1993 sit-com Designing Women. Her real-life politics were considerably different from her fictional character's. Reputedly, whenever the script demanded a liberal tirade from Carter's role as interior designer Julia Sugarbaker, she expected the compensating opportunity to strut her admirable singing voice. Her favorite cameo was her performance of "How Great Thou Art" in an episode when one of the characters pondered the ministry. It was the last performance that Carter's mother viewed before her death.

"She got to see her little girl sing this great Methodist hymn for the whole country," Carter later recalled wistfully.

The wife of actor Hal Holbrook, Carter mixed easily with the Hollywood polloi but retained her mostly conservative southern and Christian roots. She restored and lived in her Western Tennessee childhood home in McLemoresville. And she retained a lifelong affiliation with Methodism. Her funeral, and wedding to Holbrook, were at the McLemoresville United Methodist Church. She once declared she "never saw any reason to change the beliefs I was brought up with." Her cheerful faith eventually persuaded Holbrook to join her as a regular churchgoer during their courtship and marriage. 

"How come we've got to the point where Christians must apologize for being who they are?" Carter once asked. "Why have Christians allowed themselves to get into the position of being the bad guys? That is a very sad turn of events, and we'd better do something about it. Again, the extremists are the ones who get the attention. They're the ones people listen to, but they don't represent the vast majority of sensible, decent people who are too well-mannered to scream their opinions in your face."

Carter's Christianity seems to have informed her mostly traditionalist perspective and her classy, even keel. She once laughed to the unsympathetic cast of The View that she was "the only Republican in show business." She gave some money to Republican candidates and appeared at the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia. There she appeared on The O'Reilly Factor with Pat Boone, another rare Hollywood conservative and openly practicing Christian. Bill O'Reilly pronounced her a "patriot" upon her death.

(Read more about this lady  here  who was not ashamed of her politics or her faith. We need more people in the media and at large  like her. )

Protest organizers said on Wednesday outrage over the Arizona law -- which seeks to drive illegal immigrants out of the state bordering Mexico -- has galvanized Latinos and would translate into a higher turnout for May Day rallies in more than 70 U.S. cities.

"The marches and demonstrations are going to be far more massive than they otherwise would have been," said Juan Jose Gutierrez, a Los Angeles rally organizer who runs an immigration assistance company.

(OK people marching in support of those who are not in our nation in a legal way. Oh my! Yes people have a right to pro test laws but they don't have a right to demand something  or say those of us who disagree with them are  full of hate as they are doing now. Please tell me where in the rest of the world could souls who aren't legal be able to demand that laws meant for the citizens of that nation should be given to them also. Read more about this MAY DAY: HISPANICS PLAN RALLIES IN 70 CITIES)

Nearly all of Anne Frank's diary went on display Wednesday for the first time at the house where she wrote it during the two years the Jewish teenager was in hiding from the Nazis.

The notebooks and pages that comprise the World War II diary have been moved into the Anne Frank House museum to mark 50 years since it opened its doors to the public. ( Anne Frank's full diary on display in Amsterdam)

Dutch Queen Beatrix opened the exhibition, then attended a commemoration at the 17th century Western Church a few dozen steps from museum.

(It is good  what Ann Frank wrote is going  on display. The world must never forget what  a  madman did to many Jewish souls and how his goal was to rid the world of all Jews. If we forget history we are asking for it to repeat itself.)