Last week, it seemed like the case of Rifqa Bary was finally over. Her Muslim parents agreed that the 17-year old girl who fled, fearing her life was in danger because of her conversion to Christianity, could stay with her Ohio foster family, and that everyone would get counseling. (See prior posting .) According to today’s Columbus Dispatch , however, that agreement has been short-lived.
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Rifqa Bary’s Parents Seek to Withdraw Settlement Consent Entered Last Week
It is strange to think of something slimy, snake-like and nocturnal as reassuring, but it seems as if we are beginning at last to value the extraordinary eel just as it may be about to disappear. Over the past three decades the many unsolved mysteries about the eel’s unique life-cycle have been joined by one more: why has it declined to the extent that it is now classed globally as a critically endangered fish?
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The tormented eel is slithering out of existence
The British Social Attitudes survey — which asks people about their views on politics and social matters such as crime, drugs and relationships — makes fascinating reading. Articles with lots of percentages in them are always a bit of a turn-off, I find, but do persevere because the numbers are really interesting, for once.
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Out of the closet: our growing acceptance of gays
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