'Current Affairs' Archive
High Court Smacks Down 3 Religious Challenges
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday refusing to get involved in two church-state disputes — one over religious organizations paying for workers' birth-control health insurance benefits, ...
Climate Skeptics: Reality Has Just Caught Up With You
Arctic ice loss is "stunning" — total loss possible by 2030, scientists warn
The maiden over at Hells Handmaiden has been running a series recently ...
Let the Truth be Exposed
A new site has emerged for exposing corruption worldwide, both institutional and governmental. Based on a wiki style posting mechanism, its goal is to assist ...
Sanity Returns to Texas
Sanity Returns to Texas
Common sense and justice may have had something to do with it, but it was the parole board's recommendation that did the trick. Texas Governor Rick ...
Vick's Cynical 'Jesus' Ploy Insults All Intelligence
From TMZ.com
Between apologies to everyone from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank -- to all the kids who used to look up to him, Vick ...
Book Review: The Al Qaeda Reader
The Al Qaeda Reader: Martyrdom or Mortardom?
by: Gary H. Johnson, Jr.
Recently, Raymond Ibrahim edited and translated a series of press releases by Al Qaeda's leadership ...
Death Penalty for Bystander in Murder
Death Penalty for Bystander in Murder
(Washington, D.C.) -- Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today condemned the scheduled August 30 execution of Kenneth Foster, who was convicted of a ...
Furor Over Religious Mudslinging
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A political ad from the Louisiana governor's race is drawing a storm of criticism for accusing Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal of calling Protestants "scandalous, depraved, ...
The Al-Qaeda Reader
I happened upon an amazing interview this morning with Raymond Ibrahim on KPCC / AirTalk with Larry Mantle. Ibrahim has translated and released a number ...
The Shadow of Infrastructure
Hindsight is 20-20. After the dust clears--but often before the bodies are buried--the failure analysis teams swoop in and figure out what happened. We determine who ...
Save Us From Our Cyber Selves
Via Slashdot, this item about Linden Labs shutting down all gambling activity within online community Second Life. The long arm of American law now reaches around the ...
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe's Hell on Earth
Zimbabwe has scrapped a scheme allowing fuel purchases with foreign currency, removing one of the few remaining ways for people to acquire petrol in a country struggling with a crumbling ...
If you want to be Surgeon General, be homophobic, uninformed and evasive
The last Bush Surgeon General was muzzled, and the new candidate is woefully uninformed (or more likely just dodgy). To add insult to injury, here is his 1991 paper condemning ...
Surgeon General Was Muzzled by Bush Administration
WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports ...
World will face oil crunch in five years
The world is facing an oil supply “crunch” within five years that will force up prices to record levels and increase the west’s dependence on oil cartel Opec, the industrialised ...
Questioning Whether Islam Is Religion of Peace
Reasonable Muslims now agree that when a religion veers so far off course, it loses immunity to inquisition. "We ought to go through very serious questioning and soul-searching," a founder ...
Cleric defends his jihad, says it's the duty of every Muslim
"We have no personal agenda. An Islamic system is our aim and we wanted to mount pressure on the government for the fulfilment of that objective."
Russia lays claim to North Pole resources
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
Chavez: "Malignant Narcissism"
Chavez: "Malignant Narcissism"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Insecurity, "malignant narcissism" and the need for adulation are driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's confrontation with the United States, according to a new ...
US complicit in China's June 26 drug war slaughter
One of the sick annual rituals in the global drug war has been China's annual round of executions of supposed drug offenders marking the occasion of the UN's "International Day ...
Inmates Sue After Prisons Ban Religious Books
(CBS) OTISVILLE, N.Y. Inmates at the federal prison camp in Otisville, N.Y., were stunned at what they saw at the chapel library on Memorial Day: Hundreds of books disappeared from ...
Bush in holy gaffe
Vatican City - US President George W Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness", pool ...
Dictating to democracy - rule by religion?
Most recently, Archbishop George Pell has hit the airwaves with a “warning” that members of the New South Wales Parliament face “consequences” in their religious lives if they support a ...
NASA chief regrets remarks on global warming
LOS ANGELES - The head of NASA told scientists and engineers that he regrets airing his personal views about global warming during a recent radio interview, according to a video ...
Top NASA bureaucrat contradicts own scientists on warming
"To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever ...