So much for freedom of speech and freedom of religion

[...] The IRS has warned a prominent liberal church that it could lose its tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon a guest preacher gave on the eve of the 2004 presidential election.
The Rev. George F. Regas did not urge parishioners at All Saints Episcopal Church to support either President Bush or John Kerry, but he was critical of the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts. [...]

(full article from which I quoted is here)

It just blows my mind. As my office-mate said (after I started sputtering when reading the article), if the sermon had been pro-war, there would not have been any problem.

They are SO missing the point, it's painful

[..] GOP leaders urge a probe into a possible leak of classified information about secret U.S. prisons for suspected terrorists overseas. [...]
(original article)

How about a probe into the prisons themselves?
I almost want to stop reading the news. It makes me want to emigrate to another planet.

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