Current Affairs

Britain's religious hate bill--designed to give Muslims even more protection, to the detriment of free speech--didn't pass yesterday [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SB2BW35M5WQKLQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/02/01/nrelig01.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/01/ixportaltop.html] . Previous

> President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/

David Pearson at "Suicide of the West" observes Western ease while Islam keeps marching forward [http://suicideofthewest.com/?p=71]: > In the Chicago suburb of Bridgeville, Ill., the fundamentalist leadership of a local mosque is wildly popular [http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110007880]. One of the

> A court in Lille handed down its sentence on a French Parliamentarian Tuesday, fining him 3000 Euros and forcing him to pay an additional 6000 Euros to be split between three homosexual activist groups who brought the charges against the MP. Christian Vanneste, a member of the UMP representing

Oops, guess we shouldn't have tried to kill her: > Haleigh Poutre, the brain-damaged girl at the center of a passionate end-of-life debate, was transferred yesterday from a pediatric intensive-care unit to a Brighton rehabilitation center, two days after the state's top

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

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