After 49 years, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has announced that he is stepping down from power, due to failing health. That is very good news…
A number of studies have been conducted over the years demonstrating that those in the mainstream media tend to be very much of the left…
The recent presidential election in France may well be cause for guarded optimism. Certainly the election of Sarkozy is greatly preferred to that of Royal.…
There have been a number of names given to radical Islam. Terms such as the Islamists, or Jihadists, or militant Muslims, are often used. Another…
Regnery, 2006. This is a very important book. Its analysis of geo-political conditions is top rate, and its assessment of the crisis we are in…
A person’s worldview is often much more than just some theoretical knowledge. Often it translates into action. And dangerous worldviews will lead to dangerous practices.…
I have mentioned before Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion. While familiar with some of his earlier work, I have yet to fully read…
The G20 Summit in Melbourne is now history, as is the Australian tour of U2. Both tried to grapple with the issue of world poverty.…
The recent declaration by Labor MP and aspiring leader/PM Kevin Rudd that the left side of politics needs to capture the Christian vote, and that…
Capitalism is not perfect. But it has produced a wide range of benefits. No other economic system has been able to come up with the…
A reader of this site posted a comment in which he (rightly, I believe) questioned whether I am correct to align myself with more-or-less the…
It seems that the historical revisionists and terrorist appeasers are at it again. A recent Victorian textbook has made a comparison between the Crusades and…
Spence, 2003. Like Whittaker Chambers before him, David Horowitz must have thought he was abandoning the winning side for the losing side, when he embraced…
There exists an awful lot of conceptual confusion and definitional inexactitude concerning Christianity in general and fundamentalism in particular. Mind you, I’m speaking about the…
In the brave new world of the 1990s, a number of emerging technological possibilities pose a threat to the family unit. The ability to ascertain…
As one who has grown up in, and been a part of, the counter-culture of the 60’s and 70’s, I want to examine the way…
Australia has been asked to respond to a United Nations program, the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children. Called the Program…
The death of one of the 20th century’s most influential free market thinkers, F.A. von Hayek, provides an interesting example of how the philosophical/ideological differences…
Loyola University Press, 1990. Choice In Schooling by American academic David Kirkpatrick is a detailed overview of the history of the idea of tuition vouchers.…