New England Sun-Times

Mar. 21, 2006: U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney leads the reading of an oath with participants in a re-enlistment ceremony for U.S. Air Force Personnel during his visit to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The Air Force says airmen will now be allowed to omit the words “so help me God” from its enlistment oath – marking a change in policy that is being affirmed by both atheist and religious liberty groups. The decision comes after an airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada struck out the words on his Department of Defense reenlistment paperwork and ran up against a policy that prohibits omissions. The case went up to the Department of Defense General Counsel, which issued an opinion Wednesday saying the language could be left out if the airman preferred. “We take any instance in which Airmen report concerns regarding religious freedom seriously,” Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said in a statement. “We are making the appropriate adjustments to...

The Reggae community, who has followed the legendary Deejay Junior Rodigan since the eighties, has depended on the legendary deejay to provide peaceful, entertaining events at various nightclubs and concert halls throughout New England. They say imitation is a form of flattery, but this is not the case with an event scheduled for November 8 th entitled “Trinidad Meets Barbados.” In fact, the promoters, Lion Entertainment have been accused by Rodigan and thousands of Rodigan supporters for blatant misrepresentation, fraud and false advertising. “This is what we call ‘biting”, says party-goer Phillip Richards of Brockton, a supporter of Rodigan who has attended what he says are ‘hundreds’ of Rodigans events, including the event in question. Junior Rodigan is the creator of this original event, and has promoted it in 2011 and 2012. Three Stripes Media caught up with the deejay, who has not bitten his tongue about Lion Entertainment’s “STEALING an event that I promoted for T...