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NEWS: Ireland’s First Legal Abortion Carried Out in Dublin 24 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
“The first legal abortion in an Irish hospital has been carried out in Dublin,” the Guardian reports. About time! It’s not that I don’t understand those who see abortion as murder, but it is every ad...
Nesrine Malik: ‘Richard Dawkins’s Tweets on Islam Are as Rational as the Rants of an Extremist Muslim Cleric’ 24 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
“All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge,” Richard Dawkins tweeted. “They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.” He might be right, but it still has a b...
NEWS: Quebec Government Plans to Ban Religious Symbols in Public Buildings 21 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
Quebec’s government plans to amend its charter of rights and freedoms and ban most religious signs and symbols from public institutions such as daycare centres, public schools, hospitals, clinics, and...
IHEU Freedom of Thought Report 2012 19 Aug 2013 | 02:37 am
The International Humanist and Ethical Union has published a report on discrimination against the atheists around the world. The report contains much useful information for civil libertarians. Atheist...
HOMOPHOBIA: Russian Sports Minister Says Anti-Gay Law Is about Protecting Children 18 Aug 2013 | 08:44 pm
It could be a quote from some angry Swedish atheist wanting to ban some religious practice, but now it’s the Russian Sports Minister defending the state ban on “homosexual propaganda”: It is the info...
ART: Jupiter and Thetis 17 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
The Iliad, Song I, 502-27: Embrace his knees; entreat him that he give The host of Troy his succor, and shut fast The routed Grecians, prisoners in the fleet, That all may find much solace in thei...
Eric Trager on the Truth about Egypt 17 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
“The Muslim Brotherhood is certainly not democratic,” Eric Trager of Washington Institute for Near East Policy says in an interview with Michael Totten. “Its view of Egyptian politics in one in which ...
NEWS: Danish Government Warns Russia over Anti-Gay Law 15 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
“The Government of Denmark has issued a warning to Russia over the recently passed gay propaganda law in the run up to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics,” Pink News reports.
NEWS: Russian TV Host Implies Gay Rape Victim Was Aggressively Foisting Minority’s Values on Majority 14 Aug 2013 | 03:46 am
From Pink News: In an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station, Dmitriy Kiselyov was asked by a reporter whether he was aware of recent incidents, such as one during which a gay man was raped with a ...
BONO: Capitalism Takes More People Out of Poverty than Aid 13 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
He is right! If we truly want to fight poverty, we should embrace free trade. Too bad so many governments and activists refuse to see it.
