As I have related previously, creationists often ask the stupid question: “if we evolved from apes, how come there are still apes around?”. As I stated then, it demonstrates a…
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Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people and leads to corruption within the religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state, therefore is absolutely essential in a free society.
It is ironic that Chris Kenny from Murdoch’s The Australian, in casting aspersions upon the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), begins what he laughably calls ‘analysis’ by referring to “post-truth journalism,…
Chairman of the UK Press Holdings Group, Andrew Neil1 has been in Australia. Press Holdings Group has as two of its titles The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph, both of which…
In a mind-bogglingly bizarre press conference, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that he doesn’t accept that he, as treasurer, cut $1.2 billion from the aged care budget. This was…
Criminal charges have been laid against a former employee of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), ‘Witness K’ (they cannot be identified), as well as his lawyer, Bernard Collaery, for…
In 2016, founder of 350.org, Bill McKibben1, in The New Republic, has stated that World War 3 is under way, and we are losing. He believes we are under attack…
There’s no question about it: the corporate conservatives and their allies in the political and religious right are achieving a vast transformation of American life that only they understand because they are its advocates, its architects, and its beneficiaries, in creating the greatest economic inequality in the advanced world. They have saddled our nation, our states, and our cities and counties with structural deficits that will last until our children’s children are ready for retirement and they are systematically stripping government of all its functions except rewarding the rich and waging war.
Last Sunday, an article by Steven Wardill, in Brisbane’s Murdoch-owned Sunday Mail supposedly revealed why the husband of state Liberal National Party leader Deb Frecklington, Jason, had closed his ‘fledgling’…