The Journal
2010
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Those Sunnies Are Expensive
The UK’s Daily Mail reports toady that Bono’s ONE foundation received donations of 9.6 million pounds in 2008. Only 118,000 pounds (just over 1%) was given to people in need. 5.1 million pounds was paid in…
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Anglican Diocese of The Murray
News last night that my friend of more than thirty years, the Right Reverend Ross Davies, has resigned as Bishop of The Murray. Over the last year, a Special Tribunal of the Anglican Church has been meeting to…
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What Religious Wars?
A superb short article by Anthony Esolen at Touchstone Magazine’s Mere Comments blog: It is a commonplace among our ruling class that religion is irrational and inherently divisive, fostering hatred of one group for another. On…
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Australia’s Leading Expert In Irrelevance
Former Australian Prime Minister and big job at the UN hopeful Kevin Rudd gave a few tips today to the UN General Assembly on how to increase its level of irrelevance. Speaking to a session to which almost one…
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Sucking Up To Your Enemies Doesn’t Make Them Your Friends
Barack Obama finally stands up to Iranian President Imanutjob, describing his 911 comments at the UN as ‘outrageous and offensive.’ Better late than never, I guess. Next, Obama plans to be angry, and after that, to…
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Sorry, Julie, I don’t Agree
I like Julie Bishop. She has been a loyal and hard working deputy leader of the Liberal Party under three different leaders. It is not often I disagree with her. But she said today that she…
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The Rising Tide of Stupid
Over forty morons were arrested in Newcastle in New South Wales today. It is not that stupidity is illegal in Australia. In fact the government relies on it for lottery income. These particular morons, repesenting ‘Rising…
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Some People Disagree With You. Get Over It.
The BBC website featured a picture of that silly old bugger Sir Ian McKellen protesting against the Pope. Sir Ian was wearing a T-shirt that said ‘Some people are gay. Get over it.’ I am fairly…
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Educating the Educators
GK Chesterton said ‘Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.’ That is not my favorite Chesterton quote. He also said ‘A dead thing can go with the stream,…
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Why We Can’t Make Good Cheese
OK, so this is hardly a burning issue. And Australia does make OK supermarket, frozen food cheese. But exceptional cheese requires unpasteurised milk. Because like good wine, really good cheese is complex. That complexity requires a…
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Muslims Have More Rights
And are safer in Western countries than in any Islamic country. So says Muslim woman Raheel Raza, formerly of Pakistan: The Pakistan ambassador gets up and leaves in obvious annoyance that a woman should be allowed…
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Gillard: What I Said Before, Forget About It
Julia says things are different now. And they are. She doesn’t need you to vote for her anymore, and won’t for the next three years, by which time you will have forgotten. So bye, bye promises.…
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Unwarranted Assumptions
It turns out unwarranted assumptions are the largest single source of renewable energy. Take for example the Zero Carbon Australia, 2020 report which claimed that all of Australian energy could com from renewable energy sources by 2020. Ted (F.E.) Trainer, a…
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Tough Love
In an address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to members of the Nicean Club at Lambeth Palace a couple of days ago. (The Nicean Club is a group of Anglicans who seek to strengthen relations between Anglicansim…
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Oakeshott for Speaker?
That might be one way to keep him quiet. Nothing else seems to work. Have you ever heard a politician so much in love with the sound of his own voice? Anthony Albanese is worried about how Oakeshott’s serving…
