Harold Camping , a false prophet who first predicted the world would end in 1994, is at it again. Camping operates Family Radio, a worldwide evangelical radio ministry he turned into a cult of Christianity
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False prophet Harold Camping sets another date for rapture: May 21, 2011
It’s good, if you’re a university administrator, to keep a cool head when the word “hotbed” is being thrown at you. One admires that unnamed UCL official who dryly commented that if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had come to the UK intending to blow up planes, he would surely have done chemistry rather than mechanical engineering. The sad state of the failed bomber’s death-to-the-infidel underpants seems to bear that out.
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Our universities face a radical upheaval
Once again the vulnerability of air travel to terrorism has been exposed. The existing measures deployed for passenger security at airport security points didn’t stop the Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect who had explosives sewn into his underwear
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Profiling, not scanning, will stop potential plane bombers
This January I resolve to keep reminding myself that the Labour Party matters less with every passing week. The only and increasingly interesting political question is what the present Opposition will do with the working majority the voters will soon, surely, be handing it.
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Mercy can’t exist if distress has been abolished
Christopher Hitchens waxes cynical about the security measures that failed to prevent the latest hilarious-if-it-wasn’t-true attack : No sooner is the fanatical and homicidal Muslim arrested than it turns out that he (it won’t be long until it is also she) has been known to the authorities for a long time. But somehow the watch list, the tipoff, the many worried reports from colleagues and relatives, the placing of the name on a “central repository of information” don’t prevent the suspect from boarding a plane, changing planes, or bringing whatever he cares to bring onto a plane
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Red Shrieking, Green Conditions
For years, our missing co-founder Douglas LeBlanc was the GetReligionista who was officially in charge of posting “ hathos ” alerts linked to mainstream media coverage of religion news. He’s still out there, lurking, and he sent us an alert this morning for the first hathos alert of 2010 and it is a goodie. But first, for those on the outside, what is “ hathos ”
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Hey pope, go hide somewhere
In the wake of Delhi Lieutenant Governor’s Office granting sanction to CBI for prosecution of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, BJP on Thursday asked why Jagdish Tytler was being “spared” and demanded time-bound trial against the accused. “What about Jagdish Tytler (another Congress leader accused in the riots)?
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Why is Tytler being ‘spared’ in 1984 riots, asks BJP
The Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American seems unusually boring at first sight. At a more thorough reading though, it has some interesting tidbits relevant to this blog: A bouncy universe Recent theoretical physics calculations by Horava split time from space in the General Theory of Relativity
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Uplifting science news: universe and environment
Invoking the the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict , the government of Jordan has asked Canada to seize the portion of the 2000-year old Dead Sea Scrolls that are on display until January 3 from Israel at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. Canada, Jordan and Israel have all signed the Convention and its First Protocol. (Signers of Convention , Protocol .) The Convention is aimed at assuring that cultural property is not damaged during armed conflict.
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Jordan Seeks Dead Sea Scrolls From Canada Under UN Convention
Dear Religion Clause Readers: Happy New Year! As we enter 2010, I want to again thank all of you who read Religion Clause– both long time followers and those who have joined us more recently. With the advent of the Obama administration last January, some readers asked me whether there would continue to be sufficient church-state and religious liberty developments to sustain the blog
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Happy 2010 To Religion Clause Readers!