It's disturbing to see how a singer took liberty with the National Anthem in Denver: A singer surprised dignitaries by singing Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as the "black national anthem," to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner during the mayor's State of the City address yesterday in Denver. Rene Marie, who was introduced by City Council president Michael Hancock to perform the national anthem, says she made the switch without informing the mayor's office. Marie tells The Denver Post she decided

I see the national office of the Council of American Islamic Relations weighed in on the controversy caused by their Houston Chapter after they threatened to go to the FBI over an incident at Friendswood Junior High between two students. Telling the school instead of going that route, they would be OK with just giving a presentation on Islam instead. The problem was no parental notification was given to the nearly 900 student who had to attend the mandatory 40 minute religious talk about Islam. Below are

From Israel Matzav: On Monday, June 16, 2008, the UN 'Human Rights Council' welcomed Richard Falk as the new 'expert' to oversee its standing investigation into "Israel's violations of the principles and bases of international law." When UN Watch took the floor to ask Falk to explain his support for 9/11 conspiracy theories, as documented by the Times of London, Egypt made a failed bid to delete the question from the record.