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Zodiacal Light
One of the YouTube sites I subscribe to is that of the European Southern Observatory, which I first found out about via reader Amy Carparelli. Their ESOcasts, as they call their channel, are full of fascinating information and beautiful images. The latest one, about...
Fox News/Facebook GOP Debate 4 March 2016
This was held in Detroit, Michigan this afternoon (8pm Thursday US time, 3pm Friday NZ time) and moderated by Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace. The remaining candidates in polling order are Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich....
Will Women Save America From Donald Trump?
Super Tuesday, the biggest primary voting day on the calendar was this week, and the results have pretty much decided who the Democratic and Republican nominees for president will be: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. However, most of the others received enough...
South Carolina, USA – Republican Primary Result and Analysis
Donald Trump has been way ahead in the polls in South Carolina for some time, and in reality the battle there is for second place between Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. That place belonged firmly to Cruz earlier this week, but exit polls from before the polls closed showed...
Nevada, USA – Democratic Caucus Result and Analysis
The Democrats were caucusing in Nevada today (Saturday US time). Hillary Clinton won the state back in 2008, and it looks like she's done it again. Before even half of the vote was counted, pundits were calling the election for Clinton. At that stage, the gap between...
CNN/GOP Town Hall – Kasich, Bush, and Trump
CNN's Anderson Cooper is still in Greenville, South Carolina, ahead of Saturday's Republican primary, and tonight (Thursday US time, Friday afternoon NZ time) is hosting John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump. John Kasich Kasich has been doing slightly better in the...
CNN/GOP Town Hall – Ted Cruz
In Greenville, South Carolina this afternoon (Wednesday night US time) CNN's Anderson Cooper is hosting a Town Hall for three of the GOP's remaining candidates - Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz. (A second Town Hall featuring John Kasich, Jeb Bush, and Donald...
CNN/GOP Town Hall – Ben Carson
Note: Sorry I've been gone so long. Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday last week I was away, then while I was recovering from that my website was being migrated to another server. I should have been able to get in again on Sunday, but the WordPress software didn't like the...
Saudi Arabian Cleric Ali Al-Malki: West Tampers With Burgers So More Girls Will Be Born
This should be this week's Auē Tēnei Wiki, because it really does deserve a big face palm, but the title is long enough already. From MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) we have another example of the kind of delusion often spread about the West in the Middle...
Auē Tēnei Wiki: My Patron Saint is St Francis of Assisi
It must be true, because the internet said so. I'm not quite up to thinking too hard yet, but I thought I'd make the effort to do my weekly Auē a Tau Kē Tēnei Wiki posts anyway. In an experiment to see whether God would intervene in the heresy of an atheist taking the...
Fox News/Google Iowa Republican Main Debate – 28 January 2016
Note: I had a two hour power cut about half-way through this debate, and I won't have time to finish this tomorrow morning, so this report only covers the first hour of the debate. Main Debate (See here for my take on the Undercard Debate.) The main debate was held at...
For WEIT Readers – Babies Galore!
Many of you will have read and enjoyed Jerry Coyne's post this morning on the Why Evolution is True website: 'Five things that atheists don't want you to know.' I made a comment about atheists eating babies. As you probably know, there are lots of memes relating to...