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...long ago.She hid it well. It might have been her near-devout fixation on all things ostensibly black, from her prized collection of African American Santa Clauses to marrying a Dominican man, my father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth to two brown children, quite a deed, given this country’s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points out. (But he also calls for the “abolition” of the white race?...
...most people in this country, the annual celebration of Christmas is a highly anticipated and treasured tradition. The reason for the existence of Christmas, which is commonly understood to be a celebration of the birth of Christ, has its origins in Christianity. But according to separate reports from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and Fox News, while only about 77 percent of Americans identify their religion as Christian, 96 percent of the people in this country celebrate Christmas each year. Ultimately, that means that around 80 percent of non-Christians are actively participating in what...
Besides, some significant parts of the way American Christians celebrate this sacred holiday actually don’t even have any explicit connection to the birth of Jesus. Rather, traditions such as Christmas trees, Yule logs, giving and receiving gifts, and possibly even the date of December 25 itself arose out of pagan celebrations that pre-dated Christ altogether. Meanwhile the figure of Santa Claus actually arose out of a Dutch folk tale that was originally unassociated with the nativity. So much for always keeping focus strictly on the reason for the season...
...raising these issues, Focus on the Family does not desire to harm or insult women such as Cheney and Poe. Rather, our conviction is that birth and adoption are the purview of married heterosexual couples. Traditional marriage is God's design for the family and is rooted in biblical truth. When that divine plan is implemented, children have the best opportunity to thrive. That's why public policy as it relates to families must be based not solely on the desires of adults but rather on the needs of children and what is best for society at large...
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) [ucla.org] is now composing 800,000 embarrassing ones. The university announced Tuesday that it's notifying nearly a million members of its community - including students, faculty and alumni - that a hacker gained access to their Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information. UCLA computer security technicians noticed a suspicious number of database queries on Nov. 21, and after a quick investigation, discovered that a hacker had accessed records fraudulently all the way back to October of 2005. The university blocked further access to the private data and hired...