Australian poverty scandalous, says church October 23, 2007 04:46pm Font size: + – Send this article: Print Email A CHURCH leader has urged major political parties to help the disadvantaged in the wake of “scandalous” findings that more than 10 per cent of the population lives in poverty. The Australia Fair report released today said […]
Offender of the faiths September 1, 2007 As the West seeks an accommodation with Islam, free speech must remain a fundamental issue, says British philosopher A.C. Grayling. As the West seeks an accommodation with Islam, free speech must remain a fundamental issue, says British philosopher A.C. Grayling. A.C. Grayling is worried that terrorism threats will […]
October 21, 2007 AUSTRALIA’S national Anglican leader yesterday backed the American church in the homosexuality row that has brought the worldwide church to the brink of schism, and suggested that Australia might offer a solution. Primate Philip Aspinall, the Archbishop of Brisbane, said the United States had made “a generous response” to requests from the […]
Have you seen this from The Climate Institute? Very clever.
Courts ‘becoming irrelevant’ without bill of rights Posted August 29, 2007 Scathing: Geoffrey Robertson says Australians are mugs for not reforming flawed British laws. Internationally-recognised human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC says Australia’s courts are becoming irrelevant because of the lack of a bill of rights. Last night in Sydney, Mr Robertson addressed the Australia’s […]
These days we can be confident that, so far, there have been three major steps in our understanding of evolution. The first came in 1859 with the publication of “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin, who put together a vast amount of data about natural selection, which he claimed was the major, but not […]
October 19, 2007 A letter from Muslim leaders to Christian ones can be a start for dialogue, writes Barney Zwartz. AT THE core of both Christianity and Islam is the double command to love God and neighbour. Last week 138 Islamic leaders wrote to the Pope and “leaders of Christian churches everywhere” saying world peace […]
Oct. 21, 2007 Can’t Be That Stupid By Harry T. Cook The perpetually and understandably enraged Paul Krugman, Princeton economist and New York Times op-ed columnist, is saying in a new book that conservatism is essentially a set of unfair principles (?) that, should they be fully implemented, will favor rich white males and those […]
Oct. 21, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 18: 1-8a We meet in today’s gospel two characters: one called a widow and the other an unjust judge. Those who would have heard this parable in the First Century C.E. would have seen immediately what the gospeler was driving at. In the social scheme of things […]
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BCADBEC2-49F1-459D-9558-E4DEC92EE80E The First and Last Enemy By Andrew G. Bostom FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/19/2007 (The following is a text of a speech delivered at the “Counterjihad” conference in Brussels, Belgium, October 18, 2007) Fawaz Damra, the former Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland was convicted in 2004 for lying to immigration officials about his links […]