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Egypt disqualifies top Islamists, Mubarak VP from vote

It’s no surprise that members of the previous regime under Hosni Mubarak will not be allowed to participate in elections. What is a surprise is that some Islamists are being blocked as well. The West and its more liberal and Christian Egyptian allies had much to fear with the Muslim Brotherhood gaining control, ending any [...]

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The Data That Do Not Fit

Though I’m not Roman Catholic, I really enjoy reading The Catholic Thing, a blog for articles on culture, science, philosophy, and, of course, religion. In this blog post, Patrick Fagan discusses the effects of marriage and religion worship.

Cover Version

Mark Steyn puts up a link to a video that will make you either laugh with embarrassment of cry from the fact that European males are represented a little too well with this guy. He looks like Cornholio in the headscarf.

Karadzic: Sarajevo and Srebrenica crimes are myths

The Balkan Wars of the 1990s are a very, very touchy subject for many people, even those who are either members of the Yugoslavian diaspora or their friends. I myself attend a Serbian Orthodox church, and I lived in the Balkans for a considerable amount of time living in Macedonia, so my natural affinity is [...]