Word: patting
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...says Pat Robertson. Like a lot of Americans, I find this statement deeply disturbing. My concern, however, is a little different than that of most patriots. I am one of those non-Christian people. More specifically, I am an atheist...
What concerns me most is not that Pat Robertson and company make such statements about atheists. There are bound to be some extremists of every imaginable flavor. What I find disturbing is that many Americans share the attitude that Robertson's statement expresses. For instance, while in office, former President George Bush said that he did not know that atheists should be considered patriots...
According to Pat A. Hurley, a spokesperson for the Red Cross, management has agreed to consider the vote of the employees at an election scheduled for March...
Perhaps the loopiest strand in the supposed conspiracy winds through the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case. Jones first made her charges at conservative PAC press conference, and they were soon promoted heavily on religious TV shows like Pat Robertson's 700 Club and Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour. Falwell, of course, is the main promoter of the Clinton Chronicles, a crackpot video documentary that charges the First Couple with drug smuggling and links to a gangland slaying. The Rutherford Institute, which pays Jones' legal bills, once defended the right of football players at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University...
...news of the changes spreads, Harvard and other universities are standing pat--with state schools relying on their already-cheaper tuition and Byerly Hall still mostly satisfied with its current system...