Issue 2012 February 18
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Federal Coalition commits to defending marriage
Federal Coalition members have decided to continue the Coalition’s support for the current definition of marriage between one man and one woman. As parliament was resuming for 2012, a Coalition meeting rejected bogus calls for a so-called “conscience vote” on planned legislation to change the Marriage Act to include same-sex marriage. Realising that they don’t have the numbers for changing the Marriage Act,…
AS THE WORLD TURNS
The family torn apart The amazing thing about the last 30 years is the collective self-delusion in the US. You cannot keep borrowing money if your ability to pay it back — i.e., your real wage — isn’t going up. You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand this. So the current crisis really began in the 1970s, when the wages stopped…
