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Go tell irritant01 the name of your least favourite song.

ID is back in Kansas

In brief:

- KS puts ID back in schools (after all it worked so well last time)
- In PA, ro-ID school board members voted out in Dover
- Schools in Victoria will not teach ID as science

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... this ikon severely needs work.

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From the SMH: according to the police, this week's raids and arrests would have gone ahead in any case without Howard's public announcement and rushed to change the law. (Confusingly, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said the new law was necessary for the raids, but his deputy said they weren't.) Some of the people arrested have been, or will be, charged with planning a terrorist act - possibly this is where the new law comes in, but I'm not clear on this.

Warned by Howard's announcement, the alleged terrorists immediately met to prepare for the raids; they may have had time to destroy evidence. The Age reported: "The police assigned to conduct the raids were livid that they had lost the element of surprise, substantially increasing the risks involved." The PM is very lucky that, despite a shoot-out with one suspect, no police were killed (let alone any of the suspects).

My question now is: can Howard be charged with compromising a security or police operation?