Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford

The Line Still Holds (Just)

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: The Daily Telegraph reports: A key proposal by Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party to outlaw blasphemy in the new constitution, stoking fears of creeping Islamisation, is to be dropped from the final text. The agreement to drop … Continue reading →

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Lies, All Lies, I Tell Ya

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s no news that Georgian congressman Paul Broun is a strange bird (he’s the clown who wanted to ban Playboy from the PX), well, here he is again (TPM reports): Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of … Continue reading →

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Must Try Harder

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Over at Patheos, Kathy Schiffer is running a series on the “Best 100 Catholic Speakers” and here she is with seminary professor Dr. Janet Smith, author of Contraception: Why Not? Choice quote from Dr. Smith: I think contraception is an … Continue reading →

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Turkey & the EU

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner Andrew McCarthy has a piece on possible Turkish membership of the EU up on the home page, very well worth reading in many respects, but not least for this observation: In Turkey, the administrators of the … Continue reading →

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New York’s MTA, the First Amendment & the Heckler’s Veto

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner The New York Times reports: [New York’s] Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace. … Continue reading →

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For Misery in Massachusetts

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cardinal O’Malley (The National Catholic Register reports): Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston is leading a statewide fight to defeat the Death With Dignity Act, a November 2012 ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Massachusetts. He has outlined the … Continue reading →

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God and Mammon

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

How the Roman Catholic Church chooses to decide who is—and who is not a Roman Catholic—is up to that church. Even so, this is quite a story (from Reuters): Liberal and conservative Roman Catholic activists in Germany criticised a decree … Continue reading →

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So Unsophisticated, That First Amendment

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago law school frets in Slate: The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have … Continue reading →

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Erdogan, Again

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Turkey’s thuggish (“mildly Islamist”, if you are The Economist) prime minister Erdogan is doing his bit to restrict free speech. The Seattle Times reports: Prompted by the anti-Muslim video produced in California that has stirred deadly … Continue reading →

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Glimpses of Barbarism

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the Economist: In July a mentally disturbed Muslim man, arrested for blasphemy in the Punjab city of Bahawalpur, was dragged out of the police station by a crowd of 2,000 and set on fire. In 2009 accusations of blasphemy … Continue reading →

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