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Kentucky and the Ten Commandments Part III: And the Other Eight

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Posted on October 27, 2008 - 3:35pm at The Nashville Feed | Music + Culture + More
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And the Other Eight.

The numbers don’t seem to support the misconception that a courthouse Ten Commandments display has any noticeable effect on theft or murder, in spite of two commandments specifically directed at these crimes.

Curiously, rapes and assaults also seem to be unaffected by the exhibits.

Should Racism Be A Crime?

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Posted on April 24, 2008 - 4:04am at Sharon Cobb
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I was reading this story from AP, and I had a negative reaction to reading that saying a racist word is a crime in Brazil.

In the AP story, a soccer player called a referee a monkey, and he was handcuffed and taken to jail.

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