From the daily archives:

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Saudi to behead woman for witchcraft

February 14, 2008

Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali has been sentenced to death by having her head cut off because a man accused her of making him impotent. Arrested in May, 2004 Fawza was held for 35 days in which she beaten to the point of having to receive medical care after one of the beatings.
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Can we just have change instead?

February 14, 2008

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times. Vote for Change. Vote for Obama. There’s only one problem. Obama doesn’t appear to be about actually changing anything if this photo of him in front of one of his signs is to be taken at face value:

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Women cannot be in positions of authority over boys

February 14, 2008

A religious academy in Kansas recently expelled a female referee from a boys basketball game after claiming it was inappropriate for her to tell boys what to do. Kudos, however, go to the two male referees who walked out also, one with the expelled woman and the other after he found out what was [...]

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Can we drown the atheist "movement", please?

February 14, 2008

I’ve been an “out” atheist since I was a teenager when I was put on the spot about the truthfulness of the Bible. Having grown up in the backwater areas of the United States the only other atheists I knew were my brothers and my dad. I was in my early twenties and [...]

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