Bardot Convicted in Race Case

PARIS -AP- Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.

A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The

The Telepgraph is reporting:

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and

An article I noted over the weekend in the Toronto Star peaked my interest a bit;

There were no pleasantries, there was no small talk. Safa Rigby had expected to hear her husband’s voice when the phone rang one morning.

I’ve pretty much held silence on this FLDS thing, but Ive started to notice a pattern in the labeling of the thing which I find disturbing. Witness this write-up from Mary Flood in the Houston Chronicle:

Many lawyers for children

It is not everyday I dedicate a post to a bridge, but not every bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge.  The Brooklyn Brdige turns 125 today.  A celebration is in order, Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

BROOKLYN — In 1883, New Yorkers

Paul Krugman (Idiot, first order) travels to Berlin and notes that there are some differences between Berlin and Atlanta:

To see what I’m talking about, consider where I am at the moment: in a pleasant, middle-class neighborhood consisting mainly

In all honesty, it doesn’t surprise me very much to see the California State Supreme Court ruling the way it did on homosexual marriage, the other day. While correct in terms of the legal precedent involved over the last several

Jason Riley at the WSJ, notes that illegal Immigration has disappeared from the election cycle radar screen, and wonders why. He concludes after examining the situation in some detail:

If American culture is under assault today, it’s not from

Derb has decided to side with John Ratzenberger, who is on a kick to keep tinkering alive.

I think they’re both right. Understand; I wrote most of this without bothering to actually read Derb’s article. The first couple paras of

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on

John Hawkins has put together a great list of quotes that to my mind personifies conservatism. A couple examples:

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the

Drezner:

Another day, another online article. The topic of my latest Newsweek column is whether the West — i.e., American and Europe — can still act as the global policy leader. I’m not optimistic: America and Europe face political, economic

Boortz did an interview with the guy we spoke of yesterday… and apparently got swamped with listener feedback:

You’ve heard endless times of the heroic efforts put forth by one Hillary Rodham as a lawyer on that committee. She was

On both sides of the pond, concerned parents complain about books targeting school children which promote willful homosexual behavior, as if it were  normal.   The parents complain and  the school boards ignore. 

Now good news, Mike Pechar, Jawa Report,

Paul Berman in today’s New York Times admits he’s under-estimated Radical Islam… which of course is as we’ve pointed out here before, not quite the case.

…each new calamity for Iraq has, like manure, lent new fertility to the various