Steve Bergstein tells the horrific story of the ordeal suffered by Abdallah Higazy, who was coerced into a false “confession” after 9-11 by an FBI agent who threatened that he would have Egyptian security forces torture his family.
The long and the short of it was that an Egpytian national, Abdallah Higazy, was staying in a [...]
2 Timothy 3:1-5–”This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers [...]
I’m heading off to Berrien Springs, MI, tomorrow for a conference on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book, Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine. The questions were asked by Walter Martin and Donald Barnhouse. The answers were given by some folks in the Ministerial department of the General Conference. Not everyone was [...]
Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld comments on the confirmation testimony of Michael Mukasey.
According to Judge Mukasey’s statement, as well as other parts of his testimony, the president’s authority “to defend the nation” trumps his obligation to obey the law. Take the federal statute governing military commissions in Guantánamo Bay. No one, including the president’s [...]
Unsettling commentary in Newsweek by Christopher Dickey comparing the movie, “Deliverance” (written by his father), to US involvement in Iraq. It’s Dick Cheney as Lewis Medlock. My hard copy just came in the mail, and I read it over lunch.
In the end, though, it is not the übermensch [Lewis, played by Burt Reynolds] who offers [...]
The bishops of the Traditional Anglican Communion (claiming 500,000 members) are seeking reunion with Rome.
The Legionaries of Christ are suing a noted critic, former Legionary priest John Paul Lennon (REGAIN), demanding that he return certain secret documents, including the order’s constitution, norms for etiquette, etc. Why these things should be secret in the first place is a mystery.
Reportedly, the Vatican has directed the order to get rid of a [...]
ABC reports: Guiliani Defends, Employs Priest Accused of Molesting Teens. It’s not a new story: AP October 4, CNA June 28, Salon June 22, Blog Feb 25. Giuliani continues to claim his high school pal has been “unjustly accused.”
Msgr. Alan Placa was not only accused of molestation as a priest, but was also a lawyer, [...]
Rod Dreher on the drought in Atlanta. He links to a New York Times article on how Atlanta has fiddled while the water supply has dropped.
The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion. All summer, more than a year after the drought began, fountains sprayed and football [...]
Marcel Lejeune has a statistician friend take a look at a recent Planned Parenthood report on abortion worldwide, and finds some problems in their methodology.
Many Catholic apologists are pointing to the recent story about sexual abuse in public schools and crowing–”See, you can’t fault celibacy or anything else unique about the priesthood! Schools have the same problem!”
But do they? Is it the same problem?
AP reports 2,570 cases of teachers being removed for sex-related problems (out of 3,000,000 teachers). 1,801 [...]
