Bob Woodward of the Washington Post has been quoting former Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “At a pivotal meeting in the situation room in March 2011, Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says that Mr. Obama opened with a blast of frustration over his Afghan policy — expressing doubts about Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander he …
In 2009 a British charity took a radical decision. Instead of offering old clothes and soup to the long-term unemployed in a soup kitchen, they chose 13 homeless men, some of whom had slept rough for more than 40 years, and gave each of them 3000 pounds in cash, no strings attached. Instead of spending …
United Methodist Church officials in central Pennsylvania have defrocked a pastor who officiated at his gay son’s wedding in Massachusetts. There are a small number of hate groups masquerading as religious congregations. They are innocent of modern research and science, stuck in a medieval time-warp, where atavistic notions culled from the past trump modern ideas …
The rate of teenage pregnancy in the UK is dropping like a stone. The proportion of pregnancies in under-18s has fallen by more than a third since 1998, to 30.9 per 1,000. This remarkable reversal (the figure had been rising since the late 1960s) is “no accident”. It’s a direct result of the work of …
The news today that a female Indian consular official in New York has been strip-searched and jailed with hardened criminals for alleged visa fraud and for paying less than the minimum wage for a worker brought from India (truly!) further discredits the Department of Homeland Security. This department was cobbled together in a panic after …
