Underpaid and overstretchedÍ ill equipped and badly quarteredÍ misunderstood and valued cheap — Britain’s soldiery have had it bad these past seven years of war. Now, it seems, troops have one more burden to add to the list under which they labour: among their generals lurk donkeys in disguise
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Is that the sound of donkeys in Whitehall?
On the first day of the 1983 Labour Conference I sat in the front row of the MPs’ enclosure and listened, with modified rapture, to the announcement that I had been elected deputy leader of the party.
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Wanted: Labour leader to win future election
Tipper and then-Vice President Al Gore celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary in 1999. The couple is divorcing. “So, how’s your marriage?” My mother posed the question over a manicure a few weeks ago, in that nonchalant yet quizzical tone parents perfect over the years
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Gores’ divorce raise questions about what makes a good marriage
I’m no expert on the issue of celibacy and Catholic priests. Fortunately, I don’t need to be to critique an NPR Morning Edition report headlined “Letter From Priests’ Lovers Reignites Celibacy Debate.” A Journalism 101 student could handle this post. Let’s start with the question posed by the GetReligion reader who passed along the link: “Isn’t it standard journalistic practice to ‘present both sides’ when a story is news rather than an editorial?” Um, good question
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Celibacy, NPR and Journalism 101
Meanwhile, an atheist who actually seems to use his intellect instead of merely worshipping it has done the heavy lifting of actually learning about the historical claims of Agora. Shorter take: it’s a film made to confirm religion …
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Catholic and Enjoying It!: Evangelical Atheism Makes you a …
LONDON – Some inmates in UK prisons are converting to Islam for the perks. Thats one of the conclusions of a new study of jails here by Britains Chief Inspector of Prisons Dame Anne Owers.
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LIVESHOTS: Inmates Converting to Islam for ‘Perks’?
Kelly Baker These days, my brain alternates between at least two or three scholarly things/themes: the 1920s Klan and the apocalypse (and often vampires and religious intolerance, but that is for another day). The first, of course, is quite obvious. I am counting down the days until my manuscript is tied in a bow and shipped to my publisher.
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Is Anything Not a Sign of the Apocalypse?
RantRave | Published Opinion. Scientology is growing in india RantRave | Published Opinion. You may think of the more common ones such as Hinduism or possibly even Islam when you think of India
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Scientology is growing in india – RantRave | Published Opinion.
In a statement Monday, Vice President Biden said the U.S. is consulting with other nations “on new ways to address the humanitarian, economic, security, and political aspects of the situation in Gaza.” What are the religious and moral considerations in determining those “new ways,” especially in light of Israel’s raid on an aid flotilla from Turkey bound for Gaza….Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Struggling for the moral high ground in Gaza
Dutch voters seeking fiscal discipline and tighter immigration laws appear ready to back a new right-wing government in a national election Wednesday and may even double their support for strident anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
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Anti-Islam parties expected to gain in Dutch vote