Despite the judge's futile attempts to keep switching and changing pre-trial hearings, supporters of Dr. Aafia still manage to fill the spectator gallery and overspill room.

For older American workers, the ramifications of the court's rewrite of the law are severe and immediate. Previously, age discrimination victims could prevail in court by proving that unlawful bias was "a motivating factor" for their adverse treatment.

Ironically, the very same extremist groups who have called for war against Switzerland because it has banned minarets have repeatedly turned a blind eye as dozens of mosques are regularly bombed and destroyed by suicide bombers all over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Magdalena Schwartz, a pastor at the Disciples of the Kingdom Free United Methodist church, says she has been receiving non-stop calls from immigrant families who are afraid to take their children to doctor's appointments.

Under Secure Communities, people are put into deportation proceedings even if they are innocent of criminal charges or if the arrest was simply a pretext to check a person's immigration status.

Be it the Fort Hood shooting, 9/11, Mumbai Attack, Hostage Crisis, Taliban, al-Qaeda, or Palestine-Israel violence, when political context and messy history is removed from the picture, when important distinctions among these cases are blurred, and simplistic cultural logic of "irrational, violent, fundamentalist" is emphasized, they not only lead to wrong identification of causes but also suggest misleading solutions.

Law enforcement has drummed up this incident to be terrorism-related, or somehow related to the faith or political views of Imam Luqman and his community. The mainstream media has predictably followed suit. But the actual charges against these 11 individuals say otherwise. The charges mentioned are as follows: possession of body armor and fire arms by a convicted felon, providing firearms to a convicted felon, tampering with a motor vehicle identification number, mail fraud, and selling/receiving stolen goods.

No one has presented any concrete evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. This has been asserted in every inspection report of Iran carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and our own American National Intelligence Estimate.

Obama, the Committee tells us "has as president created a new climate in international politics." Really? Perhaps they are trying to humor us, because the millions of civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan who have been displaced due to his policies probably wouldn't agree.

For the first six years of my life, my Indian grandmother force-fed me a home remedy of steamed milk with turmeric at the first sign of an upper respiratory infection.