The Journal

2012

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    Could You Say This In Australia?

    Given a recent court case, the gubmint’s plans for media regulation to shut up people who say stuff it doesn’t like, because it’s like, unfair and stuff, and the legal and personal persecution of anyone in Australia who even asks…

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    This Is The Path Which Allah Lays Before Us …

    Jihadist operations, martyrdom operations, to drive every Jew out of the sacred land of Palestine (home to the Jews for over 3,000 years). Apart from the fact this guy looks like Fagin, there are two other…

  • Barack Kardashian? I Don’t Think So

    Amused by Rush Limbaugh’s description of Obama as Barack Kardashian? You shouldn’t be. It is a libel on the Kardashians. As Marc Hopin points out on American Thinker, the Kardashians are hard working wealth creators who…

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    Reason Number 23768 To Stop Funding The UN

    Iran is elected to a position of global power in policing the international arms trade. This is the same Iran that wants to blow the “Zionist entity” off the map, and supplies weapons to terrorist groups including Hamas and Hezbollah.…

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    Two Thousand years Of Global Cooling

    By Andrew Bostom in American Thinker, and worth quoting in full: Notwithstanding the latest hysterical claims from the sadly politicized climate scientologists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), insisting 2011 was somehow “a year of…

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    How Many Australian School Students

    I wonder, would recognise these words: WHEREAS the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth…

  • More Common Sense From The UKIP

    This time from Roger Helmer on the global warming scam, and the consequences of government policies which increase the price of energy:

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    This Would Be Hilarious …

    If it weren’t so gol darned alarming. University students and teachers, nearly all of whom claim to be in favour of free speech, enthusiastically sign a petition to take conservatives off the air: From Exposing Leftists.

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    Rocket Attacks Matter

    Imagine a well-armed enemy which has sworn to destroy the US launches a series of rocket attacks on civilian targets in Washington, or Los Angeles, or Miami. Or a similar series of attacks on Sydney or…

  • Theology By Numbers

    An insightful and amusing article by Anthony Esolen on the banality of modern church music: Why, when we have a trove of profound, beautiful, and poignant hymns, do we have to endure what is banal, clunky, and…

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    Poverty and Alienation Cause Terrorism

    Right. From the Harrow Times (also via Blazing Cat Fur): Four men who pelted eggs at young Jewish people during racially motivated attacks in Golders Green have been ordered to pay compensation to their victims. Mohammed…

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    Journalistic Integrity

    Yes Virginia, journalistic integrity used to exist. But when someone like John Pilger is held up as an example for aspiring journos, things have gotten pretty grim. Ezra Levant talks about the values of the liberal journalistic pack…

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    The Hateful Intolerance of Liberals

    From twitchy.com: Jane Pitt is the mother of actor Brad Pitt. On Tuesday, the Springfield News-Leader published her letter in support of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.   “Any Christian who does not vote or write…

  • Interesting Stuff

    Some thought starters from Ben Peter Terpstra’s blog Weekend Libertarian: 1. Government schools aren’t necessarily public schools. BP quotes from an article by John Stossel: Politicians claim that education and health care are different — too…

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    Nigel Farage Rules

    Via John Ray’s Political Correctness Watch: Why should we in Australia care? Well, many of us have friends and family in Europe. That is reason enough. Many of us also care about reason and democracy. Another…