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Prime ministerial priorities

The Road to Surfdom - July 6, 2008 - 1:00pm

Kevin Rudd continues his role as art critic:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he cannot stand the photo of a young naked girl published on the cover of an art magazine.

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Quote of the week #25 - AV on the “reason = evil” meme

The Thinker's Podium - May 11, 2008 - 12:41pm

In response to Ben Stein and Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor claiming that Soviet Russia and NAZI Germany were the result of reason.

You can do all kinds of reductios with Stein’s claim. Scientists were involved in the Holocaust, therefore science is evil. Trains were used to transport Jews to the death camps, therefore trains are evil. The railway tracks were made of metal, therefore metal is evil. And so on. Read more »

The Parté of Economic Responsibility

The Road to Surfdom - May 16, 2008 - 2:01pm

The claim that Australia’s Tory coalition represents economic responsibility has always been somewhat overstated, resting entirely as it does on the ALP’s unsuccessful attempt to nationalise the banks in 1948 and the behaviour of one Whitlam minister.

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