Entries from December 2007 ↓

In an interesting experiment, Andrew Leigh and Andrew Norton are engaged in what they are terming a “bloggish debate” about the subject of private versus public education.

Andrew Norton is a researcher with the Centre for Independent Studies, and works in the office of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. He has formerly worked as an adviser to a Liberal Minister. Andrew Leigh is an economist at the Australian National University, and has formerly worked as an adviser to a Labor Shadow Minister.

Andrew Norton kicks the debate off with a post in favour of privatisation that can be read here.

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It’s been a while since we last had a story about al-Qaeda expansion into New South Wales jails. However, today the Sun-Herald reports that Muslim prison inmates in New South Wales have been studying an al-Qaeda manual. And up to 40 inmates have apparently established…

…an internal organisational structure to maintain morale, resist interrogation and recruit members to Islam.

Hmmm… Where have we heard that before?

Oh, yes. In the San Francisco Chronicle last year! The Chronicle reported that detainees of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had created…

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Apparently anxious to defy the stereotypes, some Sudanese protesters are now calling for Mrs Gillian Gibbons, the 54 year old teacher whose students chose the name ‘Muhammad’ for their class mascot, to be killed.

Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims have taken to the streets of Khartoum demanding death for the British school teacher convicted of insulting Islam after her class named a teddy bear Mohammad.

It’s no wonder then that Latin phrases such as civis Romanus sum and its more modern equivalent civis Britannicus sum are experiencing a revival; or that calls are being made for a cessation of aid to Sudan in retaliation for their treatment of a British citizen.

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Voting is now open for the fourth annual Brass Crescent Awards.

Further to our earlier post on Pastor Danny’s incorrect prophecies on the Federal Election, we would like to direct our readers to a response posted by Pastor Danny to the Catch the Fire Ministries website. It’s called, “Election 2007 - Did I get it wrong?”

Apparently, God has been talking to Danny again.  He writes:

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