Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

Sunday Times and Dispatches program highlight problems faced by British converts from Islam
The issue of apostasy from Islam is beginning to receive mainstream media attention in Britain, as is shown by yesterday’s Sunday Times article (see below), and also by an episode of the Dispatches program, “Unholy War”, which is investigating violence and intimidation against [...]

Whither the campus radical?
Kevin Libin
National Post
Thursday, September 27, 2007
If you planned to attend the Conference on Academic Freedom and Research
Integrity on Monday at Edmonton’s Shaw Convention Centre, take note: It
has been cancelled. The reason? Several academics, apparently, did not
approve of the subject matter.
The forum was organized by Carl Phillips, a University of Alberta
professor with a [...]

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Free the reptile.

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It seems that the advocates of homosex aren’t in a great hurry to educate the public about these pagan rites. They want us, when we hear about homosex relationships, to think about happy families [...]

I feel compelled to comment on this article in the Ottawa Citizen.
“By the time a woman knows she’s pregnant, makes a decision on what she wants to do, and finds out where to go to get an abortion, sometimes it’s too late,” she says, explaining that some women have to carry their unwanted pregnancies to [...]

This blog has linked to mine. You must watch the movie.

 Some of the modern Western world’s earliest entrepreneurs were pious Calvinists, believing that industriousness and thrift were godly.
But the purported spiritual heirs of John Calvin, fretting over “global economic injustice and ecological destruction,” are repenting of the global capitalism they helped to create.
“The people of the South need you to stand up to the powers [...]

The Teenage Casualties of Casual Sex
Written by Doug Giles
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
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Chances are historically high, young person, that if you screw around sexually nowadays well…you could very well be…screwed. As in, for life, with the “gift” that keeps on giving—namely, a Sexually Transmitted [...]