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Islam, the religion of peace: The Associated Press reports from Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Assailants in black masks stabbed and burned to death 14 Christians, including a six-month-old baby, in the religiously divided capital of Indonesia's Maluku province on Sunday, threatening a fragile peace pact. The killings came two days after a militant Islamic […]

Frank Rich has a column in today's New York Times called "Religion for Dummies." Much of the column deals with the scandal in the Catholic Church. Rich is correct in his analysis that the Catholic Church hierarchy has screwed (no pun intended) themselves with their handling of it. Boston Cardinal Bernard Law needs to resign. […]

Paul "Line 47" Krugman praises Bush for his environmental policy in today's New York Times. Yes, I'm kidding. I'll leave the thorough dissection of today's column up to some environmental expert, but I do want to make a couple of points. Sure enough, the substantive part of the Bush administration's air pollution plan is a […]

The first week that Alan Keyes had his MSNBC show, I watched a couple of episodes. I didn't like it much, because there wasn't enough of Keyes. I think he's probably one of the most intelligent, passionate, and well-spoken conservatives out there today. The past couple of nights I've caught his show, and it seems […]

Does Gray Davis really want to lose his re-election bid? Because he's doing a pretty good job of setting himself up for Bill Simon. In Thursday's San Francisco Chronicle Davis weighs in on the issue of slave reparations -- on the wrong side. With a landmark state study on slave-era insurance policies about to be […]

Islam, the religion of peace: From Nigeria, whose justice system once brought you the classic hit "Rape victim sentenced to stoning death" comes another one. Nigerian Muslim prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for two men accused of converting from Islam to Christianity. Lawali Yakubu and Ali Jafaru have been given three days to re-convert […]

Sen. Fritz "cash-and-carry" Hollings (D-Disney) writes an op-ed piece in Thursday's New York Times that challenges Paul "Line 47" Krugman for inanity. In the article, entitled "The Delusion of Free Trade," Hollings argues for expansive economic isolationism that would fail to protect American jobs in the long run and would generate hostility abroad in the […]

The Drudge Report was linking to a story in the Houston Chronicle about how a staff member's note from President Bush's time as the governor of Texas shows how he does business -- with little or no paper trail. Unlike Nixon who taped everything, it appears as though Bush (as any sane person would nowadays) […]

If you're looking for a quick primer on the historical background of the current Middle East conflict, go here.

More news from the silent partner in Bush's Axis of Evil -- China. The persecution of Christians continues in the evil communist state. Police demolish church under construction in Hebei Rome (Fides) � On April 11 police demolished a Catholic church in Xiao Zhao village in the province of Hebei, 200 kilometers south of Beijing. […]