21 August 2006 - Granite Grok

August 21, 2006

Build a mosque? Not in my backyard…

This week’s New Hampshire Sunday News (Sunday version of the Union Leader) carried several articles of a special series featuring an in-depth look at Muslims living among us here in NH and their attempts at constructing a Mosque in Manchester, the state’s largest city. . Back in June, I submitted an opinion piece to Union Leader for publication on …

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And I’m supposed to be surprised?

From a news story from Bloomberg News:  Iran rejected suspending its uranium enrichment program, the main objective of a European Union-led offer of incentives to which the country is due to give a formal reply tomorrow. “Under current circumstances, the suspension of uranium enrichment is not possible,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy …

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