Individuals whose attire is against religious laws in public will be sentenced to flogging and fines.… Read the rest

Crimes such as mal-veiling are evident crimes and must be dealt with in accordance with the law.… Read the rest

The West Bank was not going to become New Orleans, there would be no Superdomes in their City.… Read the rest

Civilization sits on a very thin, fragile crust. We fall through so easily.… Read the rest

Papers think the ‘science bit’ is too hard, so stories on science must be dumbed down.… Read the rest

Complacency is the deadly enemy of thinking well.… Read the rest

He didn’t drown every single person in New Orleans, and he wiped out much of the sin there.… Read the rest

Audiences enthusiastic, conservative press sees ‘imposition of western values.’… Read the rest

‘School is not a place for religion. It is a place where we are all French and we are all equal.’… Read the rest

One woman resists law; her husband is suspect in Madrid bombing.… Read the rest

The sight of the emaciated children of Lawrence strikers transformed public opinion.… Read the rest

Humans have to do the job not because we’re so great but because there’s no one else.… Read the rest

Bush doesn’t read, but there were pictures. Niall Ferguson has an odd take.… Read the rest

Scott McLemee notes that journalism has its own metaphysics.… Read the rest

Allbaugh called FEMA an oversized entitlement program, urged reliance on ‘faith-based organizations.’… Read the rest

Plasticity is not evidence against selection.… Read the rest

Conservatives want to cut government ‘down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.’… Read the rest

They get to go to Houston! Barbara Bush is so pleased for them.… Read the rest