Recent commentsNew Zealand is attempting to combat drunk-driving with alcohol interlocks. Over 200 drivers have been told to fit breathalyser-like devices in their car since the sentencing option became available in September 2012.

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Authors have died for??questioning claims in??the KoranI didn't like Hitchens's book because I thought it read like a Speakers' Corner rant. But this time he hits his target. Thanks to Fernandez for the tip. Now here's the money quote:When I check into a hotel room and send my free and unsolicited copy of the Gideon Bible or the Book of Mormon spinning out of the window, I infringe no law, except perhaps the one concerning litter. Why do we not make this distinction in the case of the Quran? We do so simply out of fear, and because the fanatical believers in that particular holy book have proved time and again that they mean business when it comes to intimidation.The Pace University incident becomes even more ludicrous and sinister when it is recalled that Islamists are the current leaders in the global book-burning competition. After the rumour of a Quran down the toilet in Guantanamo was irresponsibly spread, a mob in Afghanistan burned down an ancient library that (as President Hamid Karzai pointed out dryly) contained several ancient copies of the same book.Not content with igniting copies of The Satanic Verses, Islamist lynch parties demanded the burning of its author as well. Many distinguished authors, Muslim and non-Muslim, are dead or in hiding because of the words they have put on pages concerning the unbelievable claims of Islam. And it is to appease such a spirit of persecution and intolerance that a student in New York City has been arrested for an expression, however vulgar, of an opinion.What in God's name is going on at St Paul's Cathedral? More to the point, what are we, on the Left, going to do about it?

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Now, what I know about economic development probably wouldn't cover the clubface of one of those titanium monsters that add 25 yards to your drive. And I do admire Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings for not letting his GrowSouth effort degenerate into a task-force white paper.