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In Bamiyan, a woman, Habiba Sarobi, is the new provincial governor.
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In Badakhan, a woman, Amina, was brutally executed for adultery.

It seems the first major act of the Vatican’s new Pope Benedict XVI is to have his head of the Pontifical Council on the Family, Cardinal Alfonso Trujillo, condemn a bill in Spain’s Parliament that would permit homosexual marriage and adoption.
Should the bill become law, the Cardinal calls on Spanish Catholics in a position to […]

Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson came to Penn State today to speak on current affairs (and also to plug his new book, The Politics of Truth ). It was a good speech, with a tone of warning about the dangers of a government run by people who care less about the truth than about action, […]

The folks behind
Operation
Red Scare at Santa Rosa Junior College in my own Sonoma County,
California (see our coverage of the incident) recently ran for student government.
Elections were held at the end of last week, and results were completed and posted this morning.
In short, the College Republicans lost. Running on the New Progressives
ticket, they got about a […]

The Iraq war is not winding to a close by any means, but it does
show signs that, in a strategic sense, things have gone from worse
to bad:

Wow… I’m all for bipartisanship and mending fences, but here’s a couple of groupings I never thought to see. The URLs are unstable by session, but head over to thomas.loc.gov and check out S. 677, the Workplace Religious Freedom Act. Mainly, look at the sponsors.
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-PA, chief sponsor. Cosponsors include […]

I’ve said in the past that any science classes forced to teach Intelligent Design should use Chariots of the Gods for their textbook, but this cartoon suggests Norse Mythology would work just as well.
And for the space junkies in the audience (not to mention the other writers), the same site has a nice cartoon about […]

ABC News has this story: The Republican Party’s newest fundraising trick is for a Congressman to notify a lucky doctor that they’ve been selected Physician of the Year, but will have to pay $1,250 to the Party in order to pick up their award at a ceremony in D.C. Upon arriving, they find that there […]

Sonoma County was recently struck by one of those tragedies that happens all too often: a bicycler was killed by a drunk driver. It’s quite natural after such a tragedy is to wonder how this sort of thing can be prevented. Reading the Press Democrat today, I can’t shake the feeling that the Pee […]

I’ve seen some nasty stuff written about Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church by a few people on the Left. No use naming names; these were all just some-guy-with-a-website wankers. None of them had the voice of the people who called the Pope “one of Saddam’s enablers” who is “naive and detached […]