Should your salary be the same if you move from Scunthorpe to Southampton? Should the rate for a job be identical in Newcastle, Newquay and Newark?
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The real north-south divide crippling Britain
It is bad enough getting old. What makes it worse is the constant pressure, these days, to deny it or disguise it
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The insidious triumph of the facelifting classes
If only PD James had been on the Chilcot committee. After six hours of watching Tony Blair effortlessly deflect and disarm his interrogators at the Queen Elizabeth II centre on Friday, how could one not be struck by the contrast with the courteous evisceration that James recently performed on the BBC’s director-general?
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Why Blair can never admit to regrets
In your spare time this weekend, consider taking a few minutes to read Devin Friedman’s lengthy GQ piece that gives the background leading up to the shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller. Scott Roeder was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder for shooting Tiller. Tiller was an usher at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Kansas where he was handing out bulletins to people before he was shot on May 31, 2009.
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Before the abortion doctor’s killing
Now and then, justice prevails : A jury took less than 40 minutes Friday to find Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of abortion provider George Tiller in a church here last May. A jury of clear-headed people in south central Kansas have seen a terrorist thug for what he is.
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Murderer Guilty of Murder
As I mentioned the other day , media coverage of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., always offers conservative activists new opportunities to bash the mainstream press. As a journalist who has always worked in the mainstream, I frankly wish that the mainstream press would make their work a little harder to do. What we have at the top of this post is a pretty typical example of this genre
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Fair criticism on march coverage? (corrected)
In an unprecedented action the Akal Takht (highest Sikh temporal seat) here on Friday issued an edict excommunicating its former Jathedar(high priest) Professor Darshan Singh from Sikh community for uttering blasphemous remarks against the tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh at a congregation in USA last year. This is first time probably, wherein any former head of the Akal Takht was expelled from Sikh community in the 540 year old Sikh history, said sources of Akal Takht office
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Former Jathedar of Akal Takht excommunicated from Sikh community
Grant Desme is making it to The Show. Just not the one Nuke LaLoosh dreamed about. The decision by one of the Oakland A’s top prospects — he was considered a lock for the Majors one day — to leave baseball and enter seminary is a story that, quite remarkably, has gotten the attention it deserves by media outlets big and small, local and national.
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Fastpitch with Father Desme
A month ago, the United States Postal Service announced the commemorative postage stamps it plans to issue during 2010. One of the stamps will honor 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mother Teresa, a nun who worked among the impoverished in Calcutta, India
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FFRF Objects To Planned Mother Teresa Postage Stamp
The U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel is adding a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions, such as Wicca and Druidism. A release from the Academy reports that dedication of the new outdoor worship circle on the hill overlooking the Cadet Chapel and Visitor Center is tentatively scheduled for March 10
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Air Force Academy Adds Chapel Space For Earth-Centered Faiths; Talks With Secular Student Group
A press release from the Department of Homeland Security reports that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday with leaders from Muslim, Sikh, South Asian and Arab communities. The meeting focused on ways that DHS can increase engagement, dialogue and coordination with, and enhance information sharing between, the Department and faith- and community-based groups.
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DHS Secretary Meets With Faith and Ethnic Leaders
The Sikh clergy will hold a meeting on Friday to decide action against former Akal Takht jathedar Prof Darshan Singh Ragi. Ragi had been earlier declared ‘Tankhayia” (guilty of religious misconduct) for making controversial remarks against Guru Gobind Singh
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Sikh clergy to decide action against former jathedar today
Installment One : I have little to add to the brief words of praise for J.D. Salinger at Obscene Desserts , and even if I did have something to add, it would not be as good as The Onion’s remembrance : In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D
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Loss in Two Installments
This is a case where I know, in a few days, GetReligion readers are going to send me URLs for this Orthodox story when the mainstream media in America get around to covering it. Thus, I think I’ll go ahead and try to get ahead of the curve
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Who will quote the Moscow patriarch?
Holy Tweet! Have you read this story on Yahoo! news? According to the AP, “Pope Benedict XVI has a new commandment for priests struggling to get their message across: ‘Go Forth and Blog.’” “The spread of multimedia communications and its rich ‘menu of options’ might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on the
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Priests on the Internet. Don’t call NBC… yet.
PORT DICKSON, Jan 28 (Bernama) — Readers will most likely shift to the Internet for news, if the traditional media continue with their old style of presenting news based on what the editors feel that people should read or use the media as a propaganda tool.
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Internet news the trend of future: Rais (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
I wonder if this exemplifies one of those inescapable parts of the human condition that appeal to millions of human beings across the globe sunnily recounted by renowned scholars? Slather on the SPF-75 sunscreen and feel the rays : A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault … Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment
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Experts Agree
In 1953, when the internet was not even a technological twinkle in the eye, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories: the hedgehog and the fox: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
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We need a dug-out canoe to navigate the net
Imagine, as you drive north up the M11 from London to Cambridge, that you no longer heave that sigh of relief as you leave behind the capital’s urban fringe and welcome the site of dour Essex fields followed by sturdy Cambridgeshire countryside.
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Southmouth doesn’t exist. Thank the Green Belt
To watch Sir Roderic Lyne at the Chilcot inquiry yesterday, poking the former Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, with a sharp stick, was delicious. On the question of whether a “second resolution” by the UN Security Council was required before war, Lord Goldsmith was in obvious difficulty.
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Attorney General in briar patch con shock
News that Britain is finally out of recession was greeted with hollow laughter by the media, the City and the public — and with good reason. But before immersing ourselves entirely in gloom, let me mention another recent news item that should, paradoxically, be treated as rather consoling
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Britain can relax on its bed of nitroglycerine
International conferences are ten a penny; many deliver little more than long communiqués and longer speeches. Today, almost 70 world leaders will meet in London to take forward the international effort to bring peace to Afghanistan — and this conference must and will be different.
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We will stay until Afghanistan is secure
On Saturday, January 23, 2010, I had the opportunity to attend my first WordCamp hosted by WordCampBoston.com . WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress, the platform that many bloggers (like me) use to host our blogs. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users.
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Top Blogging Tips for Developers and Bloggers from WordPress WordCamps
World Sikh News (blog) RSS wants Sikhs to make changes in Guru Granth Sahib World Sikh News (blog) “Your roots are in Hinduism . Your holy hymns are all about Ram, Govinda and Shiva. Then, how could you think of surviving or flourishing without Hindus?
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RSS wants Sikhs to make changes in Guru Granth Sahib – World Sikh News (blog)
According to yesterday’s Gainesville Sun , the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family has raised over $2.5 million to run a 30-second ad during the Superbowl featuring former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow .
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Focus on Family Ad Featuring Tim Tebow Will Run During Superbowl
Yesterday’s Corpus Christie (TX) Caller reported that a Texas federal district court has dismissed a lawsuit against a family planning clinic brought by a father who objected to the clinic’s giving his 14-year old daughter the “morning after pill.” He said that this violated her religious and moral training.
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Father’s Suit Against Family Planning Clinic Dismissed
Six prominent Orthodox rabbis held a news conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday and then walked to the Department of Justice to deliver a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the pre-sentencing detention of Sholom Rubashkin, former manager of the Postville, Iowa Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant.
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Rabbis Urge AG Holder To Grant Rubashkin Pre-Sentence Release