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<title>UD Does a Spot of Discourse Analysis</title>
<link>http://www.margaretsoltan.com/?p=3827</link>
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A Sunday laugh.
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<title>Pope Reiterates Ban on Contraception</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/10/news/Pope-Birth-Control.php</link>
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Ruthless bastard.
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<title>Murphy-O'Connor on Marriage and Family</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7394382.stm</link>
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Marriage and family way important, he says. Celibate priests are authorities on this.
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<title>Father Says Daughter Deserved to Die</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/11/iraq.humanrights</link>
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The police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said. 

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<title>Fatal Impediment in Catholicism</title>
<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3908537.ece</link>
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Watchdog accuses church of using dogma to oppose all forms of research on embryos.
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<title>Scott McLemee on Neil Gross on Rorty</title>
<link>http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/07/mclemee</link>
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What tools does a sociologist bring to a book about Rorty that an intellectual historian wouldn’t?

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<title>Is Schlafly Worthy of an Honorary Doctorate?</title>
<link>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/05/schlafly</link>
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Lecturing is one thing, an honor is another.
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<title>Robert Irwin on Said's Shadowy Legacy</title>
<link>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3885948.ece</link>
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Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts, but thirty years on, Said still dominates debate.
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<title>Students Don't Know Much, Academic Says</title>
<link>http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2008/04/29/hey-kid-why-are-you-such-moron/print/</link>
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He blames American news networks for creating shows about stupid people yelling at each other.
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<title>Socrates in the classroom changes the distribution of power</title>
<link>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/src-sit050708.php</link>
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The students develop their thinking skills in a cooperative and investigative atmosphere.
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<title>Extract from Neil Gross's Richard Rorty</title>
<link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/309903.html</link>
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Rorty concluded that there is no position outside historically situated language games from which to distinguish mind from world. 
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<title>Resist the Medievalists</title>
<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/09/health.health</link>
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The pro-choice lobby has no pulpits to marshal its troops.
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<title>Terry Sanderson on Cormac Murphy-O'Connor</title>
<link>http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/terry_sanderson/2008/05/i_dont_believe_it_1.html</link>
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'You are a politician as much as a priest, but no one has elected you.'
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<title>God Mysterious, Cardinal Says</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7390941.stm</link>
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'If Christians really believed in the mystery of God, we would realise that proper talk about God is always tentative.'

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<title>Cardinal's Lecture [click 'Transcript']</title>
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'Have you ever met anyone who believes what Richard Dawkins doesn’t believe in?' Yes.
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<title>Katha Pollitt on Dr. Phyllis Schlafly</title>
<link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080526/pollitt</link>
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Washington University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Yes really.
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<title>Bogus Anti-elitism</title>
<link>http://www.samefacts.com/archives/election_2008_/2008/05/expertise_and_elitism.php</link>
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Pseudo-populist suspicion of them there expurts is not the way to stay in the reality-based community.
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<title>Malaysian Woman Allowed to Leave Islam</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7389874.stm</link>
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That's against the law in Malaysia, but the judge decided she had never actually converted.
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<title>MF Husain's Work Ruled Not Obscene</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7389440.stm</link>
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Hindu nationalist groups accused him of 'hurting their religious sentiments.'
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<title>Bush Cites God in Defending War Actions</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/world/middleeast/12prexyweb.html?_r=2&amp;ref=middleeast&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin</link>
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His policies were predicated on the belief that 'every human being bears the image of our maker.'

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<title>Undercover Atheist Joins Hagee's Church</title>
<link>http://www.alternet.org/rights/84043</link>
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Christian Zionism aims to align America with Israel so as to 'hurry God up' with  Armageddon
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<title>Girls' School Burnt Down in Swat District</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7388415.stm</link>
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Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it on Sunday.
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<title>Multifaithism is Bad for Women</title>
<link>http://www.secularism.org.uk/multi-faithismisbadnewsforwomen1.html</link>
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The multicultural approach harms women; it focuses on relations between groups, rather than within them. 
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<title>Pragna Patel on the Problem with Multifaithism</title>
<link>http://www.springerlink.com/content/v4628j187w862347/fulltext.pdf</link>
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At the heart of all fundamentalist movements is support for the patriarchal family.
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<title>The Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right</title>
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Hayek is not as rational and irrefutable as the right would have it. He is a romantic, a serious deficit in a social theorist. 
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