Sticky Notes

Good news from the Judge. A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit filed by six Muslim men who were removed from a US Airways flight has declined to limit public access to the case.

That's a good thing... and should prove interesting. 

A legal challenge mounted by a teacher in southern Ohio, who said a union official told her to pay dues or change religions, has prompted a federal district court to strike down a state law that allowed only those public employees who belonged to certain denominations the right to claim a religious objection to paying union dues.

Good for her. 

    Amazing information linked at NRO. This graph shows failed nation states and the correlation to religious tolerance. Read the article at Foreign Policy.

 Click here to see enlargement, and the new window enlarges even further. It also shows the risk of stability.