Current Affairs

A novel idea to try to resolve the debacle that is the modern prison system: > With space scarce as the U.S. prison population grows, a top Idaho lawmaker is proposing that inmates share beds by sleeping in shifts, a practice sometimes used by the U.S. military. Link

> More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm] The result is common-sensical: there's a lopsided boy-to-girl ratio. The

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Fr. Joseph Fessio. Hewitt's book, Blog, got me blogging on a daily basis. After reading it, though, I suspected Hewitt was an anti-Catholic, possibly a bigoted one, but based on this interview, my fears were misplaced. Bigots are rarely so respectful. Link [http://www.radioblogger.

Even a leftist at a Seattle alternative newspaper decries the Stalinist wannabes who have taken over Europe [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25924]: > How did Western Europe come to be ruled by monolithic ideologues? Short answer: the "'68ers," which is what Europeans call those

> A mother described yesterday hearing her son shot dead after he refused to convert to Islam. . . . > Mr Marriott, an accountancy student and gang member, was killed in a park near his home in Brixton, south London, in June 2004. > Three members of a rival gang, known as

For those who missed news about the highly-respected Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051229-090610-4704r] > Kurzweil's latest futuristic tome is the sequel to his last bestseller, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, which

According to this NYT article, India is on the brink of a sexual revolution. [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/business/media/02playboy.html?ex=1293858000&en=48ecbc9cf9fcc214&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] India with a sexual revolution? One like we experienced in the

Where children aren't cherished and wanted, they're abused. A disturbing story out of China about waves of child snatching. LA Times Link [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-childsnatch1jan01,0,4305055.story?coll=la-home-headlines] . Excerpts: > The reasons for the terrible growth industry in child

Chilling article in WaPo this morning about the worst Islamic threat [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/AR2005123101056.html] : Westerners who convert to Islam. Excerpt: > Converts are prized by radical Islamic groups because they can usually operate freely in Europe, Asia and North America without