SIDESWIPE – The anti-Christian American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) may be licking its lips at the plight of Shirley Chaplin, a British nurse for the past 30 years who was recently removed from her role by Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) after she refused to stop wearing a confirmation cross around her neck at work.  Highlighting their concern, four bishops and two former bishops complain in today’s Sunday Telegraph that…

Public distrust over supposed man-made climate change has heightened following the East Anglia University data falsification scandal.  Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, has now admitted that global temperatures have barely changed over the past 15 years – during which time we had been told repeatedly that global warming science had been settled.  Without such a major deception, could the climate change issue have mustered anything like the…

Of course, there are differences between groups of individuals that try to blow up airplanes and those who try to sabotage industries by violent direct action.  The former commit murder and terrorize entire populations with general targets, whereas eco-terrorists destroy or disable specific commercial property and intimidate particular individuals.  Since the eco-terrorist does not make us all feel threatened and usually does not aim to kill, should we treat him more leniently?  …