Evangelist preacher kills wife, stuffs in freezer; What if he were Muslim? Anthony Hopkins is pictured during jury selection Monday, April 5, 2010, in Mobile, Ala. The part-time south Alabama evangelist faces life in prison in the death of his wife, a mother of eight, whose body had been stored in a freezer inside his home for at least three years before it was discovered by investigators. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Mike Kittrell) Original Filename: AP100405119353.jpg Anthony Hopkins, a Christian preacher in Alabama, was arrested for allegedly killing his wife and stuffing her body in the freezer, which was not discovered for … Continue reading Christian Mullah kills wife, stuffs in freezer; What if he were Muslim?

Wall Street’s captains of industry and top policymakers in Washington are often the same people. A lot of them get rich by playing for both teams. The financial crisis has unveiled a new set of public villains—corrupt corporate capitalists who leveraged their connections in government for their own personal profit. During the Clinton and Bush administrations, many of these schemers were worshiped as geniuses, heroes or icons of American progress. But today we know these opportunists for what they are: Deregulatory hacks hellbent on making a profit at any cost. Without further ado, here are the 10 most corrupt capitalists … Continue reading America’s Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists

The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers Some novels can be more hazard than inspiration. Here are 10 novels that can have a disastrous effect on future writers. Any young person who wants to be a novelist should of course be a reader as well. But some novels can be more hazard than inspiration. They are often well-written, but their effects have generally been disastrous: they inspired younger writers to imitate them, they created awful new genres that debased readers’ tastes, or they promoted literary or social values that we could very much do without. Here are ten 20th-century … Continue reading 10 novels that can have a disastrous effect on the future writer

Ex-Cop Goes Rogue on the Drug War, Tells Pot Smokers How to Outsmart the Police Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them. LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Drugs headlines via email. // Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition » Barry Cooper should know better than anyone that you don’t mess with the police. He was once a cop, and a dirty one at that. But for the past three years, this former narcotics officer … Continue reading Cop tells Druggies ‘How to Outsmart the Police’

Why Are So Many Christians Conservative? How can people who claim to be followers of Jesus be political conservatives? When you are in the political world, you have decisions to make every single day about who you will try to help and who you won’t. In spite of the earnest quest of good technocrats everywhere, the simple fact is that there are only a few win-win solutions. Who you tax, who you give a tax break to, what programs you cut or add to, who you tighten regulations on, and who you loosen them on, what kind of contractors are … Continue reading How can people who claim to be followers of Jesus be extremists?

How the First Black President’s Approach to Race Is Transforming What It Means to Be White When Obama marked his Census form, he offered another lesson in what has been an intensive if unintentional seminar on the social construction of race President Obama created a bit of a stir in early April when he completed his Census form. In response to the question about racial identity the president indicated he was “Black, African American or Negro.” Despite having been born of a white mother and raised in part by white grandparents, Obama chose to identify himself solely as black even … Continue reading Is Obama Transforming What It Means to Be Black and White?

Controversial Pentagon’s Private Contract Killers Operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan Controversy grows over Pentagon’s network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan hired to help track and kill suspected militants. Author and adventurer Robert Young Pelton is perhaps best known for his best-selling guides to The World’s Most Dangerous Places. A veteran of battles in Afghanistan, sieges in Chechnya and attacks in Liberia, and a survivor of an assassination attempt in Uganda and a kidnapping in Colombia, Pelton has also spent time hunting for Osama bin Laden with the CIA and hanging out with both Blackwater contractors and the insurgents … Continue reading Pentagon’s network of private contractor-killers in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

The Assault on American Muslims Puts All Americans in Danger Covert police actions against U.S. Muslims lead to broken homes, deported parents, bereft children, suicides, killings — and they make everyone less safe. Alioune Niass, the Sengalese Muslim vendor who first spotted the now infamous smoking SUV in Times Square and alerted police, is no hero. If it were not for the Times of London, we would not even know of his pivotal role in the story. No mainstream American newspaper bothered to mention or profile Niass, who peddles framed photographs of celebs and the Manhattan skyline. None of the big … Continue reading Covert police actions against U.S. Muslims increase radicalisation

My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction Ahmed Abu Ali is not in a foreign prison or at Guantanamo; he is in a supermax prison in Colorado. // A version of this piece first appeared in The Hoya, Georgetown University’s newspaper. My brother, Ahmed Abu Ali, has spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in a 7×12 cell. He has one recreational hour in which he must get strip-searched if he wishes to leave his cell. He gets one unscheduled telephone call a month to his family, and receives the … Continue reading Ahmed Abu Ali is not in a foreign prison or at Guantanamo; he is in a supermax prison in Colorado.

Crop circle ‘inspired by most beautiful formula in mathematics’ appears in Wiltshire A crop circle thought to be inspired by a formula acclaimed as the most beautiful in all mathematics has appeared on a hillside in Wiltshire. By Matthew Moore telegraph.co.uk God’s Formula appears in a 300 foot diameter crop circle in an oil seed rape field at Wilton Windmill, Wiltshire Photo: MIKE WALKER The circle, which is more than 300ft in diameter, was cut into a field of oil seed rape by Wilton Windmill at Wilton near Marlborough. Experts say that the design may be connected to Euler’s Identity, … Continue reading Crop circle – appears in Wiltshire