Current Affairs

Will the West ever learn? Muslims can't be placated. Hamas, still vowed to Israel's destruction, wins overwhelmingly [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/26/palestinian.election/index.html], despite the forced eviction of Jews last year. Maybe we could just give them Israel, the

Is this like that Seinfeld episode when Elaine tried to give away the muffin stumps to the homeless shelter? > Charity groups with far-right links serving pork soup to homeless people face a crackdown by French officials. > Protesters have accused the groups of deliberate discrimination against Jews and Muslims,

Now even Newsweek has picked up on the boy crisis in education and society as a whole [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/newsweek/]. What's the answer to the increasing failure rate of males? According to this article [http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200601240828.asp], there

> Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting. > Blum, who at 72 is accustomed to laboring in relative left-wing obscurity, checked his emotions and pronounced himself shocked and, well,

> A new study from New Zealand, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, raises important questions about the effect of abortion on women's mental health. Researchers found those reporting an abortion prior to age 21 had rates of mental disorders from age 21 to 25

A writer reconsiders [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/debrasaunders/2006/01/20/183138.html] the argument--which she previously rejected--that same-sex marriage leads to polygamy. > When social conservatives argue that legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to legalized polygamy, same-sex marriage advocates either laugh or sneer. It's a

> Pogroms and purges of Jews are a thing of the past in Russia, but as women scrubbed the bloodstained floors of Moscow's Chabad Bronnaya synagogue on Thursday, a day after a man burst in and stabbed worshippers, alarm spread over increasingly open anti-Semitism. > Jewish leaders warned

According to Catholic World News [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=41869], a report says that 860 million children suffer world-wide. That strikes me as awfully high, but I don't know. How many children are there among the world's 6.5 billion? The suffering,