Current Affairs

> Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens." > "The

Those Danish cartoons keep firing up the Muslims [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,398532,00.html]. Then again, pretty much anything fires up the Muslims. A reader writes: > Anonymous post for your blog (because my husband does not want me to write or say anything in

Brian Saint-Paul points out that condoms don't stop the spread of AIDS in Africa [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/183/story_18348_1.html]. Excerpt: > [A] March 2004 article in the medical journal "Studies in Family Planning." Titled "Condom Promotion for AIDS Prevention

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