Current Affairs

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

> Massachusetts could face an "angry, divisive" fight if a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage reaches the 2008 state ballot, Rep. Barney Frank says. > The congressman blamed backers of the initiative petition for trying to provoke a new fight despite a lack of controversy over

Nice essay about the doom and gloom folks that control the media [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1961659,00.html]. Excerpt: > The year 2005 does not enter the top league of disaster years, even if we include the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. The 20th century alone

First, they tell Poland that its stance on homosexuality will hinder its inclusion in the EU. Now, they're posturing to make abortion an international human right [http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/596]. > A European Union advisory panel has issued a statement saying that medical professionals are not

From this morning's NYT: [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/international/asia/28land.html?hp&ex=1135832400&en=553f5143549e60e2&ei=5094&partner=homepage] > [A]a 1989 statute that entitles people to sue the state, remains a beguiling fiction, scholars say. > "

The Washington Times gives us an excerpt from an interview with Howard Stern in the January issue of Esquire: [http://www.washtimes.com/culture/culturebriefs.htm] > But let's look at these people [on the Christian Right]. They want to take away a woman's right to

Curious about the National Security Administration's new tools against terrorism that has the civil libertarians crying in their apple martinis? David Ignatius at the Washington Post provides a nice overview of what's going on [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122700718.html]

It's the honorable thing to do, but I cringe at the self-righteous homosexual brown shirts who see this resignation as a just result: > The Madrid magistrate who refused to marry same sex couples has presented his resignation to the Supreme Court. > Antonio Alonso, who is the