Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford

Lunatic, Asylum, etc.

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Just when you think that David Cameron’s stumblebum government cannot get any worse, here’s a piece of news that does not bode well for British patients, taxpayers or both. Tom Chivers writes in The Daily Telegraph: The man [just] put … Continue reading →

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“Religious Freedom”

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via The New York Post: Two children are dead, more are injured — yet a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis say they plan to defy a health order in the name of religious freedom. Less than a year after a Brooklyn … Continue reading →

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A Question of Timing

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Opposing Views: The ‘Woman’s Health and Safety Act’ signed into law by Arizona Governor Jen Brewer in April goes into effect this month. The law calculates a woman’s pregnancy as starting the very first day of the last menstrual … Continue reading →

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Ghana, 2012

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via The Independent: Around 700 women and 800 children live in Gambaga camp, and in five other witch camps across northern Ghana, where they are virtually cut off from the outside world. Housed in flimsy mud huts, without enough food, … Continue reading →

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Same Script, Different Stage (Ctd.)

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Bamiyan, Timbuktu, and now Tripoli. Al-Jazeera reports: Attackers in Libya have bulldozed a mosque containing Sufi Muslim graves in the centre of Tripoli, a day after Sufi shrines in the city of Zlitan were wrecked and … Continue reading →

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Art Restoration

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

In the wake of this, this?

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Leftists Attack “Speculators”

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via The Independent: The G20 was under growing pressure to call an emergency summit on global food prices last night as the Vatican accused grain speculators of “hampering the poorest and neediest… Yesterday the Vatican’s permanent observer at the UN … Continue reading →

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Huck Rides In

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

One clown rushes to the assistance of another. Via CNN: Tampa, Florida (CNN) – Mike Huckabee participated in a conference call Friday night with hundreds of Baptist pastors and Christian talk radio hosts in Missouri that was organized to coordinate … Continue reading →

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The Science of Akin

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the Guardian, one possible theory for the source of Akin’s idiot ‘science’: The idea that rape victims cannot get pregnant has long roots. The legal position that pregnancy disproved a claim of rape appears to have been instituted in … Continue reading →

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Awkward Questions

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Ten years after the publication of The Blank Slate, The Daily Telegraph’s Ed West asks some awkward questions: …The blank slate doctrine affects almost every area of our lives. Take, for example, recent moves in Ireland to set quotas on … Continue reading →

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