Other teachers kept their own children away from his class, but failed to alert school board or parents.
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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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All Prime Ministers ‘Do God’
God is the ultimate PM.
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Another ‘Bus Driver Stops to Pray’ Story
For real? This actually happened?
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Sinister Developments in Haiti Missionaries Case
Maybe the ‘ambitious plans for an orphanage with resort facilities’ should have rung alarm bells.
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Rahila Gupta on Amnesty’s Double Standard
AI has betrayed its own history and all of us who looked to it as a champion of human rights.
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Solution to Poverty Found in Population Growth
Catholic tool tells UN Commission for Social Development.
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David Aaronovitch on Amnesty’s Poster Boy
Begg fell for the Taliban that whipped women for ‘improper dress’ and had fired all women in public service.
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Sikh Judge Criticizes Ban on ‘Ceremonial Dagger’
Sikhs should be allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers to school and other public places, he says.
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Hardeep Singh Kohli Not Keen on Daggers in Class
While going to school in Barnet may be challenging, it’s not the Punjab in 1708.
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US Bishops Warn: No Being Friendly to Gays
‘New Ways Ministry does not speak for the Catholic faithful.’ But the bishops do?!
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New Ways Ministry Replies to Bishops
‘New Ways Ministry has never been contacted by US Conference of Catholic Bishops to discuss our work.’
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Amnesty Shafts What it Purports to Defend
AI suspended Gita Sahgal for suggesting AI should not cozy up to the Taliban.
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Nick Cohen on Amnesty and Gita Sahgal
Given a choice between violent patriachy and women’s rights, like many liberal institutions AI chooses reaction.
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The ‘Islamophobia Watch’ Take on Gita Sahgal
She is ‘a member of a nutty group called Women Against Fundamentalisms.’
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Ukpabio’s Lawsuit Against Igwe Struck Out
Helen Ukpabio of the Liberty Gospel Church failed to show up, so her suit against Leo Igwe is over.
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Terry Glavin on AI and Cage Prisoners
They don’t belong together.
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Germany’s Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
The code of silence has been upheld for decades, informally or by virtue of Vatican directives.
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Go to School and Learn to Pick Lettuce
A vacuous ideology robs too many US schoolchildren of hours they might have spent reading books.
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The Role of Program Code in Climate Research
We really do need to be sure that we’re not getting any of our sums wrong.
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Gita Sahgal and Amnesty International
Sahgal suggests AI supports Begg and Cageprisoners out of fear of being branded racist and ‘Islamophobic.’