Top News Stories of the Week
By Drudge Retort
Friday, September 03, 2010 at 08:00 AM
The following stories were the biggest news events of the preceding week, according to the users of the Drudge Retort.
Tennessee Mosque Site Hit by Arson
A fire was started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Tennessee suburb. The fire burned construction equipment at the future site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and is being ruled an arson.
Posted by Zarathustra at 06:33 PM on August 29, 2010 | 324 COMMENTS
Beck Tells DC Rally 'Turn Back to God'
Speaking from the site of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech on its 47th anniversary, conservative talk show host Glenn Back claimed to be "Restoring Honor" at his rally on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Saturday. "America today begins to turn back to God," he told the crowd. "For too long, this country has wandered in darkness."
Posted by rcade at 03:58 PM on August 28, 2010 | 244 COMMENTS
Beck Rallies on Day of MLK March
Glenn Beck's decision to hold a rally in DC on the Aug. 28 anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic freedom march has prompted a counterprotest: Glenn Beck is Not Martin Luther King Jr.: "On August 28th, I will stand with Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a just, diverse and equal society. I do not stand with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and their attempt to destroy and distort King's vision."
Posted by American1st at 08:26 AM on August 27, 2010 | 212 COMMENTS
CEOs Lay Off Thousands, Make Millions
A new report concludes that chief executives of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers at other large U.S. companies. "Our findings illustrate the great unfairness of the Great Recession," said Sarah Anderson, lead author of the study, "CEO Pay and the Great Recession," the latest in a series of annual "Executive Excess" reports published by the institute, a progressive think tank. "CEOs are squeezing workers to boost short-term profits and fatten their own paychecks."
Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 07:30 AM on September 02, 2010 | 210 COMMENTS
Is Belief in God an Evolutionary Advantage?
NPR: In the history of the world, every culture in every location at every point in time has developed some supernatural belief system. And when a human behavior is so universal, scientists often argue that it must be an evolutionary adaptation along the lines of standing upright. That is, something so helpful that the people who had it thrived, and the people who didn't slowly died out until we were all left with the trait. But what could be the evolutionary advantage of believing in God?
Posted by AndreaMackris at 08:47 AM on September 02, 2010 | 190 COMMENTS
Hawking: God Did Not Create the Universe
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Posted by richardspirit at 12:02 PM on September 02, 2010 | 176 COMMENTS
An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning. Rescue attempts are underway.
Posted by YAV at 11:42 AM on September 02, 2010 | 173 COMMENTS
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., one of the most celebrated leaders of the civil rights movement, called the timing of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally an insult. "It's an affront to what the civil rights movement stood for," said Lewis, 70, the last surviving speaker at the 1963 rally. "We didn't do anything in anger and never tried to divide people."
Posted by rcade at 10:12 PM on August 28, 2010 | 160 COMMENTS
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Posted by rcade at 12:00 PM on August 31, 2010 | 149 COMMENTS
Timothy Egan: It's not just that 46 percent of Republicans believe the lie that Obama is a Muslim, or that 27 percent in the party doubt that the president of the United States is a citizen. But fully half of them believe falsely that the big bailout of banks and insurance companies under TARP was enacted by Obama, and not by President Bush. ... It's one thing to forget the past, with predictable consequences, as the favorite aphorism goes. But what about those who refuse to comprehend the present?
Posted by Hans at 11:29 AM on August 28, 2010 | 143 COMMENTS
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