Posts Tagged ‘divided’

Supreme Court Divided on Censorship

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL See here for my analysis and commentary of the government’s oral arguments and the Justice’s interrogations of the government. The Solicitor General of Louisiana, who argued the case for our side, opened by pointing out that the government has many levers for coercion of social media companies, and they have been aggressively […]

Supreme Court Seems Divided Over ATF Bump Stock Regulation

Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court seemed divided during oral argument on Feb. 28 over whether it would uphold the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulation prohibiting ownership of bump stocks. That regulation came after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas where a gunman used bump […]

Americans Divided On Native American Policies

Americans on both sides of the aisle are in agreement over several policies that would work towards safeguarding the rights of Native American people living in the United States, but they remain divided over a few key areas, among them: reparations, monuments and sports mascots. The following chart, based on a survey by YouGov which asked 1,000 U.S. […]

Massachusetts Democrats divided on Israel

BOSTON — Sen. Ed Markey stood atop the Boston Common bandstand Monday and denounced Hamas’ “heinous attacks” on Israel to cheers from the crowd that had assembled on the grassy expanse below. Then he called for a “de-escalation of the current violence” from both sides of the burgeoning conflict. A chorus of boos rang out, […]

A Dark Comedy About our Divided America

Before Michael Lacoy begins his dark comedy, Stay Safe, he includes a page with two quotes. Both are worth repeating in whole below. They are a perfect intro to the book and the past several years of reality:   Look at the nations and watch — and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do […]

Americans Divided As Mask Mandates Make Comeback Amid COVID-19 Surge

READ HERE: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/09/10/americans-divided-as-mask-mandates-make-comeback-amid-covid-19-surge/   Source Views: 0

When Faith and Power Clash: How Christianity Divided the Roman Empire (Video)

In 107 AD, the Roman Empire was at its peak under Emperor Trajan’s leadership, spanning 2 million square miles and 50 million subjects. However, the rise of Christianity, which promised to undermine Roman conceptions of power and authority, was seen as a threat by the Romans. Ignatius of Antioch, a prominent Christian leader, was brought […]

Americans divided on government’s effectiveness on climate change, but agree on certain policies, survey finds

“The public is frustrated that we’re seeing the impacts of climate change every day in our lives.” Source Views: 0

Divided we fail: A way forward for a divided progressive left?

Those that attempt to divide the progressive left into opposing camps at war with each other are almost as big a threat to the movement as the far right. Source Views: 0

Exclusive — Guatemalan President Giammattei: U.S. Divided on Abortion While Guatemala Strives to Be Pro-Life

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is forging ahead with an unwavering pro-life posture in his country while the issue of abortion is at centerstage in the United States. Source Views: 0

Bidenflation Causes Divided Democrats to Unite Against Joe Biden

President Biden’s 40-year-high inflation has caused divided Democrats to unite against him. Views: 0

‘Join, or Die’: Ben Franklin’s Warning of a Divided America

Benjamin Franklin published “Join, or Die”—now considered to be the most famous colonial political cartoon—on May 9, 1754. It appeared in “The Disunited State,” an editorial in his Pennsylvania Gazette, which was the most successful newspaper in the colonies at that time. The symbolism of the cartoon’s fragmented snake is significant, and the message is […]

Opinion | Of All the Ways America Is Divided, This One Might Be the Worst

Everyone I know or am evenly dimly aware of now falls into one of these two categories. There is no middle ground, and no easy way to avoid the question, especially during a holiday like Thanksgiving. I count myself firmly in the vaccinated group, forced to keep my distance from the nearly 20 percent of […]

Divided Rivers:  Twin Teardrops upon Mother’s Face

Riverine nostalgia in post-partition Bengali music  Since river valleys and riverbanks have perennially been the life-giving source of all flourishing human civilizations around the earth throughout history (Indus-Ganges, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Mississippi, Amazon and a great many more), it is quite natural that when politically and colonially engineered partitions of the homelands of people residing generationally […]

Divided Nation Finally Unites Over Shared Hatred For Houston Astros

HOUSTON—In a country torn apart by conflicts over race, religion, and politics, the Houston Astros provided much-needed relief by unifying people everywhere in their hatred of the Houston Astros. By advancing to the World Series, the Astros reminded America that they were a bunch of cheaters that for some reason had not been driven out […]

Why Palestinians are divided

The political division in Palestinian society is deep-rooted, and must not be conveniently reduced to the Hamas-Fatah split, or disagreements around elections—and the lack thereof—and the Oslo Accords. The divisions are linked to events that preceded all of this and are tied to the issue of who is the representative of the Palestinian people. Today’s disunity is […]

Divided we fall; some hard lessons for the left and Sikh activists

The recent outburst against Communists by a spokesman of India’s ruling right wing Hindu nationalist BJP should come as a wakeup call for those fighting against each other over the control of an ongoing farmers’ agitation in Punjab. Harinder Singh Kahlon had asked for throwing “comrades” behind bars for instigating the peasantry struggle. The Indian […]

US intelligence agencies ‘divided’ on origins of COVID-19 pandemic

US intelligence agencies said they were “divided” on how the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 first emerged, according to an unclassified report summary released on Friday. The agencies were instructed by US President Joe Biden to report on the possible origins of the virus but could not come to a conclusion. They agreed that the virus […]

Ireland’s Franciscan Friars: Men in the Middle of a Divided Society

The origins of Christianity in Ireland trace back as far as the 5th century, when the Bishop Palladius was sent from Rome on a mission to convert the Irish people in 431 AD. Palladius was followed a year later by the famous St Patrick, who was ultimately credited with bringing the Christian religion to Ireland. […]

Why’s Europe Divided on Positive Ties with Russia?

In a recent EU summit held in Brussels, the bloc overwhelmingly rejected joint French-German proposal to normalise EU-Russia relations. The bloc, instead of paying heed to the Franco-German message of redefining EU-Russia relations as a means to increase the bloc’s strategic autonomy in the international arena and reduce its dependence on the US for critical […]

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