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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
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Look out! Another slippery slope!
Privacy and health concerns, moral or religious convictions, sensitivity training, indoctrinate, myths of the homosexual movement.
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Saudi woman bravely resists reform
Started campaign “My Guardian Knows What’s Best for Me.”
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Slippery slope! Watch out!
Disability campaigner wants to impose her unreasonable fears on everyone.
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ASA rules against church miracle cure claims
We noted that the ad stated “… I have seen the dead raised and I have witnessed nearly all types of healing miracles.”
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An extended chat with Hitchens
‘There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.’
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Nazia Quazi is free at last
Canadian was held in Saudi Arabia for three years by her father under ‘guardian laws.’
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Brazil proposes ‘fetal rights’ bill
Next up: bill of rights for ovaries.
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Taliban attacks peace jirga
Burka-clad suicide-bomb attackers, rocket grenade launchers, no peace please we’re jihadists.
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Obama administration sides with the Vatican
In its claim to be a sovereign state and thus immune from prosecution.
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Socialist Unity throws a ‘Stop Islamophobia’ bash
The usual fun crowd – Moazzam Begg, Lindsey German, Robert Lambert, Seumas Milne, Salma Yaqoob…
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Abuse groups not thrilled about ‘apostolic visitors’
They believe the child protection records of Murphy-O’Connor, O’Malley and Dolan disqualify them.
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What’s so bad about missionaries?
My take on the Comment is Free belief question.
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The Telegraph reviews Hitch-22
His opinions are deeply felt and fiercely expressed but only dimly thought through.
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Did humans evolve to fill a ‘cognitive niche’?
We need more evidence, of a kind we can’t ethically get.
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Pope sends more foxes to investigate chickenhouse
Former archbishop Murphy-O’Connor will lead inquiry into clerical child abuse in Ireland.
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Lambert and Githens-Mazer on “Islamophobia”
They cite Islamophobia Watch for evidence. Yes really.
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Normblog on Eagleton
It is not obligatory for a liberal to pretend that anti-liberal creeds are as valuable as liberalism itself.
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Vatican punishes child-raping priests
By telling them they’re going to hell forever and ever.
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Thoughts of a bishop
This but then again that but on the other hand this but then you know that however there is also yet nevertheless one might say