October 7, 2008
ABC Radio National’s Counterpoint seems to draw on the right-wing think tanks for many of its guests. Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, well known climate change denier, is a regular on ABC radio. So it was time to call in the big guns last week to defend capital...
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The Pew Research Center has conducted a survey of attitudes to the U.S. by foreigners. The answer seems to be : they don't hate Americans just their government.According to Pew:The American people continue to be viewed more positively than their country, with majorities in 14 of 23 countries having ...
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Another useful link for those following the U.S. election numbers:The New York Times Electoral Map has the latest State polling for the Presidential candidates. It includes:* recent polling with source* previous election results * current government data* no. of electoral college votesThere are also...
go to article »October 6, 2008
If you missed Sunday's Compass program God's Next Army on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), it was a low point for our national broadcaster. It was an uncritical look at Patrick Henry College near Washington D.C. which uses the bible to prepare home-schooled youths for leadership in con...
go to article »September 25, 2008
Does John McCain really think his economic expertise is needed in Washington to solve the financial crisis? I'm sure he'll end up agreeing with Bush again.Thanks to 95percent for the graphic.Anyway I'm off to the Australian bush for a week. See ya! kwoff_id = 26440; ...
go to article »September 22, 2008
The narrowing has turned into a lead for Barack Obama in the polls.FiveThirtyEight: (20/09/08) Electoral College Vote at 315.5/226.5 in Obama's favour, compared with 261/277 last week. The popular vote is at 50.3%/47.9%. RealClearPolitics (21/09/08) has a 47.6% to 45.5% lead to Obama based on an ave...
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This Obama ad complements the last post very well. Enjoy! kwoff_id = 25845; ...
go to article »September 20, 2008
Black Friday was a great headline. But with the Wall Street rally overnight it wasn't to be.Australian economist John Quiggin has been posting about the current stock markets crisis:No doubt, this too will pass. But it’s just about impossible to see things returning to the status quo ante. A sever...
go to article »September 19, 2008
How's your Spanish? Amigos de Obama has a video of campaign song, Viva Obama, to brighten up your day. kwoff_id = 25688; ...
go to article »September 17, 2008
Barack Obama has been handed perhaps his strongest weapon with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the global markets slide. John McCain is a self-professed economics novice, though he denies ever saying:"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," McCain said. "I'v...
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