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[NO SPOILERS] Star Wars and Just War

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There is an old story that goes as follows. A woman was relaxing one weekend around her house while her husband was watching the...

ABC “Not Biased” Says Biased Review

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An editorial review, commissioned by the board of the ABC and headed up by Ray Martin has found that the ABC's program Q&A is...

Lost in Translation? Quote of the Day, 16/12/15

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The Global Times, a Chinese state-owned news agency today issued a stern warning to the Australian Government after a Royal Australian Air Force surveillance...

Islamic Teacher: Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus were Muslims

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Meet Dr Bilal Philips, a shining example of the Islamic Salafi tradition, who is founder of the Islamic Online University, and appears regularly on...

Greens Voters: The Grinches Who Stole Christmas

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A poll carried out by the Guardian has revealed something we've all had a sneaking suspicion about for a while: Those who vote Greens are...

Plankton Apocalypse

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Well that’s settled it for me. This climate change caper is serious stuff and life as we know it is pretty much over. I’m...

Sydney Siege “Wasn’t Terrorist Event” – Lord Mayor Clover Moore: Quote of the Day

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There was no way the XYZ could look past the comments made today by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, spoken in relation...

Straight to the Point: Budgets and ponzi schemes

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I wrote a while back, we have a structural 50 to 70 billion dollar per annum budget deficit. What we see now is a...

Imagine

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Imagine there is no sentient cognisant God. Imagine a God as impersonal as time, space and the multitude of known and unknown properties that...

You don’t have to be psychotic and mentally ill to be an Islamic terrorist...

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These people who commit terrorist attacks are by definition mentally ill, bearing ill well, are ill advised, and will kill. Was it an IS "inspired"...