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Archive for January 7th, 2009

Bountiful leaders charged with polygamy

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

British Columbia Attorney General Wally Oppal has finally arrested leaders of the Fundamentalist Mormon colony in Bountiful. Winston Blackmore and James Oler have been charged with violating the Criminal Code section against polygamy.
Oppal said Blackmore is alleged to have committed polygamy with 20 women and Oler, with two women.
“This has been a very complex issue,” [...]

Sociologist wins 2008 Award for Political Incorrectness

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

And the winner is the courageous Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire, who has been studying the politically charged area of family violence for decades. His published research shows that domestic violence is highest in lesbian relationships and that, in heterosexual relationships, women are equally as likely as men to initiate violence.
Predictably, [...]

Hamas confines Fatah supporters to house arrest

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Here are some Palestinian victims that anti-Israel protestors have overlooked.
The Hamas government has placed dozens of Fatah members under house arrest out of fear that they might exploit the current IDF operation to regain control of the Gaza Strip.
The move came amid reports that the Fatah leadership in the West Bank has instructed its followers [...]

Ontario man charged in possible honour killing

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Kamikar Singh Dhillon of Mississauga has been charged with murder in the New Years Day stabbing death of his daughter-in-law, Amandeep Kaur Dhillon. The Toronto Sun cites unnamed “sources” suggesting it could be a honour killing. The family involved are Sikhs.
A Mississauga man is facing first-degree murder charges in what sources say could [...]

Today is Christmas for Orthodox and Uniate Christians

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Christmas is celebrated on 7 January by Eastern Rite and Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar.
“Sleep Lord Jesus, sleep,” Aleksei Dozenko sings, picking up the melody of a Christmas carol that had floated in the consciousness of Orthodox Russia long before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 drove the church underground.
The seven-and-a-half-year-old Dozenko is one [...]