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The New War in the Middle East

(~) The new war in the Middle East by Jim Rice July 2006 What is the proper, appropriate response of a nation to violent attacks by terrorists or other radical extremists? We have seen one model illustrated in the response of the British government to last year’s attacks on London’s public transportation system, in which […]

Going the Way of Masonry

Sightings 7/24/06 Going the Way of Masonry — Martin E. Marty Summer travels off the interstate highways and onto byways, where vestiges of earlier American civilization(s) linger, often lead to passing visions of neglected, boarded-up, or refashioned Masonic Lodge buildings. Just as numberless Catholic church buildings have been deconsecrated, demolished, and remade into clubs and […]

Islam in Europe

A EUROPE DIVIDED INTO MUSLIM / NON MUSLIM AREAS MAY BE THE ONLY ANSWER The director of the group Jihad Watch says things have gotten so bad in Europe that the only solution to the Islamic problem might be to divide the continent into Muslim and non-Muslim enclaves. Much has been made of the growing […]

Britain’s Muslims

BRITAIN’S SIMMERING MUSLIM PROBLEM The London transport bombings of July 2005 prompted no less than eight surveys of Muslim opinion in the United Kingdom within the past year. The hostile mentality they portray is especially alarming when one recalls that London’s police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, recently said that the threat of terrorism “is very […]

The Age of the Earth

Let me mention a problem which is so simple that it was included as an example in the revised Senior Mathematics syllabus in Queensland about 15 years ago. All the elements heavier than iron were formed in supernovae explosions. Assuming that the two major isotopes of uranium, U-235 and U-238, were formed in equal amounts, […]

The Hamas Constitution

Below is the officially published version of the UN report on the Hamas constitution. ~~~ UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/S-1/NGO/4 6 July 2006 ENGLISH ONLY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL First special session 5 July 2006 Joint written statement* submitted by the Association for World Education and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), […]

World Resource Maps

A really interesting resource can be found at . These are a series of world maps where the area of each country is shrunk or increased to show the proportional share of a particular statistical item. For example, the map showing “Ore exports” has Australia blown up to a huge basketball shaped island several times […]

Apocalyptic Muslim Jew-hatred

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5673 Andrew G. Bostom July 17th, 2006 There are short-term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas. But underlying all the geo-strategy is a solid foundation of fanatical Jew-hatred, dating back to the founding of Islam. There is literally nothing Israel or Jews can do to appease those who seek to annihilate […]

Homosexual Marriage

WHAT COMES AFTER HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE Editors note: Some publicly available statements of fact in this article have been taken from material written by Andrew Bolt, a Melbourne secular Journalist. Those who argue passionately for homosexual marriages, say we should not discriminate against homosexuals who should be allowed the same rights to “marry” as anyone else […]

When Nations Collapse

A lot of thought has gone into human mortality, and how we can prolong life. Less thought has gone into the question of why nations die. But nations, like people, do have a beginning, and do have an end. Thus it is worth looking at the questions of how and why nations collapse. This paper […]