Mr Rick Santorum is not favourite to win the American presidency — but it is not impossible.

Santorum hasn’t got as much money as the other candidates.

He does not have the blessing of the rich who own the media.

Western “democratic” nations are less demo-cratic than they are pluto-cratic.

The big money owns the media. The media own (or endeavour fairly successfully to own) the minds of the TV-watching punters/voters.

Anybody who presents himself in the public arena as a practising Catholic will be killed off by the journalists – that is what they being paid to do.

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Journalists are far worse people than prostitutes.

To prostitute your body is not as immoral as to prostitute the Word.

Is Santorum mankind’s only hope?

If he gets elected, will they not simply kill him — like they killed that other Catholic president?

Santorum is a lot more Catholic than Kennedy ever was.

Canada’s Liberal Party has voted to legalise marijuana if and when they get into power.

Their policy is that legalisation will “ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, etc.”

An unrealistic policy, rivalling the naivety of Australia’s Greens Party.

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We have had, for years, scientific proof that marijuana has serious mental health risks

Marijuana is known to trigger psychosis in some people and makes any pre-existing mental illness worse.

Marijuana users with a family history of mental illness are the ones most likely to develop schizophrenia.

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Yet there are still paid “experts” in the drugs field who espouse what they call “harm-minimisation”.

Which, in English, means tolerating the use of addictive and dangerous drugs and hoping nothing bad will happen.

Such a slack attitude will seem to future generations to rank alongside those tame “experts” of the past, who used to make statements suggesting that cigarettes were not a health hazard.

School chaplains have been around for a long time.

Somebody students could turn to for advice who is not part of the machine.

Historically chaplains also educated students in the reality of the spiritual world – less so in recent years.

The Australian Government’s Chaplaincy Program was revised last year allowing schools which preferred could get rid of their chaplain and have a “secular welfare worker” instead.

Of 2500-odd schools involved, over 90 percent have opted to continue having a chaplain.

But the enemies of religion have further cards up their sleeve — a High Court challenge to the system is pending.

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Is a student basically a kind of robot whose actions are governed by a brain which is purely a bunch of chemicals in a bony box?

The government thinks so — which would make the difference between a chaplain and a secular worker irrelevant.

The government also believes that children ultimately belong to the government.

There is a cultural war-to-the-death going on in our society.

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Those who believe that children ultimately belong to God have a fight on their hands.

The present government will observe no rules in its attempt to exterminate religion from the thoughts permitted within government schools.

In the last 20 years the population of Russia has FALLEN 3 percent.

The average number of children per family is currently 1.4, well below replacement rate.

The Russian government has enacted a scheme which pays mothers $10,000 approx for having more children – but with no effect.

It recently voted to ban abortions beyond 12 weeks into pregnancy – hoping to reverse the downhill trend.

But it hasn’t.

There are built-in loopholes.

For those in “economic hardship”, abortions will be allowed up to 22 weeks.

Some of the injustices of the past still persist. Consent of husband is not required.

For under-age girls, consent by parents is not required.

Doctors with conscientious objection to exterminating the unborn are not exempted.

The new legislation at least acknowledges that Russia is aborting itself out of existence — but the bullet hasn’t really been bitten.

They will need to pass further, more realistic, laws.

On 31 October 2011, we were told that on that day, or close enough, the baby bringing the world’s total population to 7 billion was born.

United Nations agencies and “environmentalist” groups consider that a disaster.

Are they right?

(1) The figure itself is probably incorrect.

Every local administration, world-wide, which gets funding from a bigger government tends to over-state the number of people it currently provides for – hoping to extract bigger handouts.

(2) We face a future of under-population.

80-plus nations now reproduce at rates insufficient to maintain a constant population.

Russia’s population will have fallen by 25 million by the year 2050.

Likewise Japan, Italy Spain etc.

(3) De-population will increase numbers of dependent elderly — exactly when numbers of young adults entering the workforce start plummeting.

(4) Big families are best for children to grow up in.

The older ones learn to look after the younger ones.

The “what’s in it for me” mentality is harder to get away with.

The other day, Stephen Conroy, Australia’s Communications Minister, got a few headlines for using offensive language on television.

18 months ago, he was in the headlines for a different reason – being named “Internet Villain of the Year” by Britain’s internet industry, when he announced the government’s intention to force Internet Service Providers to block websites carrying offensive material.

Mr Conroy, by his lapse the other day, let himself down a bit.

To quote Mexican bishop, Felipe Arizmendi, “If on television and the internet and so many media outlets there is pornography, it is very difficult to stay pure and chaste.”

Only belief in God offers sufficient motive to raise us above our worst instincts. It’s a matter of self-control.

If the government can reduce the availability of impure material on screen, it will assist us as individuals, and help make a better society.