'Current Affairs' Archive
October 1st, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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, ...
September 5th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition /
Arctic ice loss is "stunning" — total loss possible by 2030, scientists warn
The maiden over at Hells Handmaiden has been running a series recently ...
September 1st, 2007 / Current Affairs /
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 ...
August 30th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
August 27th, 2007 / Celebrities, Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
August 26th, 2007 / Books, Current Affairs, Religion /
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 ...
August 25th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
August 22nd, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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, ...
August 15th, 2007 / Books, Current Affairs, Religion /
I happened upon an amazing interview this morning with Raymond Ibrahim on KPCC / AirTalk with Larry Mantle. Ibrahim has translated and released a number ...
August 2nd, 2007 / Current Affairs /
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 ...
July 26th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
July 19th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
July 16th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
July 11th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
July 9th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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 ...
July 9th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
July 5th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
"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."
June 28th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
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.
June 26th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
June 15th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
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 ...
June 11th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
(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 ...
June 9th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
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 ...
June 7th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, 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 ...
June 6th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Science /
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 ...
May 31st, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
"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 ...