They’ve funded the Heritage Foundation, the John Locke Foundation, AEI, the Manhattan Institute, Alliance for the Family, the Jesse Helms Center Foundation…… Read the rest
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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
For-profit colleges target people who can’t pay 
May 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many students drop out before graduating or can’t find jobs that will allow them to repay their loans, leaving them with staggering debt.… Read the rest
Pornography found in bin Laden compound
May 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Surprise surprise.… Read the rest
Uganda: anti-gay bill shelved by parliament
May 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The bill, first introduced in 2009, could still be brought up when the new parliament meets later this year.… Read the rest
“Cosmetic” FGM
May 13th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
News from the fifth annual Congress on Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery, held late last year in a luxury resort outside Tucson.… Read the rest
Michelle Goldberg on Uganda Anti-Gay Bill’s US roots
May 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The political scapegoating of gays and lesbians is a relatively recent phenomenon, one deliberately exported by the American right.… Read the rest
Ugandan anti-gay bill is far from dead
May 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The bill does not now appear on the order paper for the day but it could be carried forward into the next session of parliament.… Read the rest
Sign the petition
May 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Calling on the government of Uganda to to withdraw the Anti-Homosexual Bill.… Read the rest
Archbish accused of hypocrisy over Uganda’s bill
May 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Secretary of Pink Triangle Trust asks: Why is Rowan Williams ignoring, or refusing to condemn, the damaging role played by a branch of his own Anglican Church?… Read the rest
PZ on Lindsay/Mooney and the long term
May 12th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What happens in the mind of a believer five minutes or a day after we make an argument is not the only issue. Change is a slow process.… Read the rest
The truth about Moazzem Begg
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Begg and Cageprisoners have a longstanding relationship with al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki.… Read the rest
Support Sojourners? I decline
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sojourners “decline” to stand up to the bigots and homophobes in their own community who might take offense at such an anodyne ad.… Read the rest
Ron Lindsay interviews Chris Mooney for PoI
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
About accommodationism, new atheism, whether science and religion are really perfectly compatible, the Templeton Foundation.… Read the rest
Yale in Singapore: lost in translation
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Yale-NUS venture raises troubling questions about the translation of academic values and freedoms into a repressive environment.… Read the rest
Solving Darwin’s medical mystery
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Darwin’s is the latest in a series of medical mysteries to be re-examined at an annual conference held by the University of Maryland School of Medicine.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo think about othering
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It’s tricky.… Read the rest
Ireland: rise in abuse complaints to church watchdog
May 11th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A significant increase in the number of allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children reported to the Catholic Church child protection watchdog.… Read the rest
Der Zeitung apologizes for erasing Sec of State
May 10th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hasidic paper erased Clinton and Tomason because of “religious beliefs,” not because “religious Jews denigrate women.” Got that?… Read the rest
US will talk to the three bin Laden “widows”
May 10th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
That is, to the three women bin Laden bought and held in slavery in his compound.… Read the rest
Texas senate: guns ok on state college campuses
May 10th, 2011 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All Texas students will be above average, or else.… Read the rest
