Jan 10, 2008

Thursday Links

Ed Cline rips another one out of the ballpark (this time over the "right field" fence) with an essay/review of The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever.

In Britain, 66,000 girls of African and Middle-Eastern origin have been subjected to ritual genital mutilation (warning: disturbing article). And yet Western feminists and multi-culturalists remain silent.

Federal judges micro-manage political speech (via Instapundit).

President Bush is visiting Ramallah, but he will skip laying a wreath at Arafat's tomb (as is customary among foreign dignitaries). Having given hundreds of millions of dollars to Arafat and his murderous gang, does he actually think this symbolic act makes him any less of an unprincipled appeaser?

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