Al Jazeera Blogs

<P>Americans are taught to venerate the US constitution as a model charter for ensuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but&nbsp;has the&nbsp;free speech fetish gone too far?</P>

<P>As Muslims in the US find themselves increasingly under attack,&nbsp;religious leaders attempt to send message&nbsp;that other faiths will speak out against discrimination.</P>

<p>Corruption&nbsp;is&nbsp;a common&nbsp;theme&nbsp;in Brazil's politics,&nbsp;but the country's new&nbsp;'clean slate' law&nbsp;now bars anyone with such charges pending against them from running for political office.</p>

<P>Now that the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians have begun, so too, many are afraid, has something else: the countdown to the next round of violence in the region.</P>

<P>Is there enough room in the US for everyone's dreams?</P>

Dilma Rousseff has never been elected to public office, but the polls indicate her first such position could be the most important one in Brazil: Mrs President.

<p>Anti-humor &nbsp;law calls for fines that can reach roughly $100,000 against the broadcasters who allow comedians appearing on their station who violate it.</p>

<p>Approximately 400 people gathered in lower Manhattan this weekend to protest about the building of an Islamic cultural centre and mosque near the World Trade Centre site.</p>

<P>Amid several primary elections in the United States, two have focused particular attention.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>

<P>As he campaigns for members of his beleaguered Democratic party, the US president can no longer fill a stadium with enraptured Americans young and old.</P>