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French Canadians

> 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

Mercy Murdering

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

Hamas Victorious

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

Let Them Eat Soup . . . Or Not

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

Boy Crisis

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

No Shame

> 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

Souter Home Condemned?

Come on! Be reasonable. You're making this personal. With Souter, it's all about theory: > Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one

Psycho Killer Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa

> 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

Bring Me the Women

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

Catholic Neighborhoods

The same Atlantic article mentioned previously [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200601/primarysources] notes as an aside that Catholics are likelier to attend mass if they live in a heavily Catholic neighborhood, and that such neighborhoods have better economic and social indicators, including higher income and education levels and lower