Parents must allow CPS workers to question and examine the children at home.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Glasgow Police Ban Scientology Placard
Strathclyde Police admitted officers stopped protesters using the word ‘cult’ after a complaint.
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In Politicians It Is Judgements That Matter
Blair wants us to attach ourselves to his sincerity and evaporate arguments over judgement.
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Bride not Virgin so Judge Annulled Marriage
Wedding party still under way when the groom came from the bedroom complaining that his bride was not a virgin.
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Vatican: Women Priests Will Be Excommunicated
‘The church does not feel authorized to change the will of its founder Jesus Christ.’
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McClellan is Sad About McClellan
If I did not support the policies I advocated – such as making things up – why didn’t I say something at the time?
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Bomb Hits Danish Embassy in Islamabad
At least six people have been killed and thirty injured.
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It’s a West Texas Thing
Without planning ordinances, FLDS was free to build ranch and live in isolation there.
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Asian Women in Birmingham Denied Free Vote
‘I just didn’t want to vote last year because of how much pressure I got from the family.’
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Bastards
Leila Hussein divorced her husband after he murdered their daughter. Now she’s been murdered too.
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Tortured Reasoning
Believers and scientists both have flashes of insight, so…
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Amnesty International 2008 Report
Prospect of an effective remedy for victims of rights violations in many countries remains illusory.
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Radio Netherlands: The State We’re In
The AI report; peace brigades in Colombia; gay and Muslim in Egypt, Turkey, South Africa; Mallalai Joya.
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Eve Garrard on Passing Motion 25
Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan are naughty, but Israel is off the charts.
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Shalom Lappin on Living in a Hostile Environment
Boycotts of particular nationalities are corrosive.
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Challenge to Police Over Scientology Summons
Liberty will ask City of London police to explain how the initial decision to issue the summons was made.
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Markovits and Weintraub on Obama
Obama is popular around the world, but it’s no accident that he drives some hard-core anti-Americans up the wall.
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Morsal Obeidi Wanted to Live Like Other Girls
So her brother stabbed her twenty times, and she died.
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Red Tape Makes it Hard to Prevent Honor Killings
A number of regulations make it easy for violent family members to find out where the threatened are staying.
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Turkish Women’s Groups Protest Bullying Rules
Mo did not think kindly of women who put on perfumes outside their homes and go strolling.