Little girls in Cameroon are being betrayed by their own mothers.  Using piping hot stones, women “iron” their pubescent daughters’ breasts to destroy any visible sign of budding womanhood.  Some of the victims of this torture are as young as nine.
The scars are horrific.
Women say it is love that drives them to brutalize their daughters [...]

What shall we make of David Cameron? What can we learn from his little speech in Ankara? What does it tell us about his mental makeup, his grasp of history, his powers of understanding, his ability to make sense of things, his hierarchy of values, his appreciation and knowledge of…

How Russia arms Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists with some of its most deadly weapons.

Things were so much simpler in the old days. If a citizen was brutally murdered, those who were actually responsible for the act were sought out and brought to justice. The only points of debate were generally in regard to whether or not the accused were guilty. Today, though, there is a leftist “Justice League” [...]

I chose this photo because I admire Oliver Stone’s golden teeth.
You’d think that after criticizing Oliver Stone on July 20 and July 2 and June 24, I’d run out of things to say about him (or rather, he’d run out of things to embarrass himself with). But alas, here I am writing my fourth blog [...]

While a handful of Catholic bishops around the country are opting to cut back on support for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), none have yet cited concerns about funding for political organizing that stands in opposition to the conservative TEA Party movement. Funding for political organizing by the CCHD includes grants from the [...]

The biggest issue in education…[used to be]…whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in the nation’s schools. Opponents called it a form of “creationism” and the press dubbed the ensuing legal battle as the biggest clash between faith and science since the Scopes Monkey Trial. In a stinging rebuke to the religious right, a Pennsylvania judge [...]

In this week’s Inside Higher Ed, Garrison Walters drops (what should be) a proverbial atomic bomb.  Walters, executive director of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, doesn’t just want to improve higher education, he wants to change our entire culture.  With only a modest increase in funding, of course.
The main challenge facing higher education, [...]

Syria—yes, Syria—Bashar Asad’s Syria–has just banned full face veils in their universities.
According to Syria’s minister of higher education, “All female students wearing the full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses … the niqab contradicts university ethics and compromises the government’s secular identity.”
Amazingly, the Minister confirmed that “hundreds of primary school teachers [...]

It seems doubtful that the cries of “Islamophobia” will be as shrill against Syria as they have been against Europe. “Syria bans face veils at universities,” by Albert Aji for Associated Press, July 19 (thanks to Choi): DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria has banned the face-covering Islamic veil from the country’s…