You can thank the labor unions for getting Monday off. But these days, many Kansans aren’t very appreciative of organized labor. You hear it in the daily stream of ugly comments around the lunch table at work or read it on Internet message boards. Words such as “greedy,” “entitled” and “out-of-touch” keep popping up. The [...]

Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The future mosque in Tennessee, like other houses of worship for Muslims across the country, has been drawn into a [...]

An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women’s clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.  No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its “Appropriate Attire Policy.” “We are talking [...]

Straight from the Wizard Of Oz, the phrase “Lions, Tigers and Bears will have new meaning in Ohio thanks to an agreement between between the Humane Society of the United States and farm groups. Most states already have some type of laws regulating ownership of “Exotic Animals” but Ohio has been one of the few [...]

“Why then should a mosque, a cultural center, not be constructed a few blocks away?” Farrakhan asked at a news conference in Washington, where he was joined by a coalition of African-American Muslims. Farrakhan and other Muslim leaders said the controversy over the building points to a rise in racism toward minorities and an anti-Islamic [...]