The Journal
Current Affairs
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Police Priorities
“A driver who flipped the bird at a traffic camera is about to be a jailbird. A court in England has sentenced Timothy Hill, 67, to eight months in prison after he was caught using an…
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Aflie Evans, Alder Hey Hospital, and Socialised Medicine
“Britain’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected a new bid by the parents of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans to take him to Italy and continue his life support against the wishes of his doctors and…
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American River
American River, South Australia: there is something wonderful about living in a community where the most exciting thing that happens all week, the front page news story, is ten people wanting to save an old tree.…
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Gaza Could Be A Paradise
If Hamas would spend money on infrastructure instead of destruction, and if Hamas wanted to live in peace with its neighbours, Gaza could be a paradise. As long as hating Jews is more important to Hamas…
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Who’s a Good Boy Then?
Max. Max is a good boy. Seventeen old blue heeler Max, deaf and partially blind, stayed through the night with lost three year old Aurora, then lead searchers to her in the morning. Queensland police have…
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Greenland Melting? Nope.
Greenland is melting, right? Sea levels are rising. Global warming is a disaster. It is all our fault. No, no, no, and no. Visit these two websites for more information: Watts Up With That NoTricksZone…
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News and Not News
From Andrew Klavan: “This is a country of 325-million people. If two guys getting tossed out of a coffee shop is news, then things in Donald Trump’s America must be going pretty damned well. … Two…
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National Australia Bank – Leaders in Banking Malpractice
The Australian Royal Commission into banking malpractice is considering submissions now, so it seems an appropriate time to link back to my story from 2012 about our own very special experience with the NAB (National Australia…
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Blacks, Whites, Murders and Lynchings
Twice as many black men and women are killed by other blacks every year in the US than were killed by lynching in every year combined since the end of the Civil War. Forty times as…
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Threatening People on Facebook is Fine
Reporting being threatened, on the other hand, is not acceptable. Black conservative women Diamond and Silk were recently banned from Facebook because their support for President Trump made them a danger to the community. Yes, really.…
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China to Complete the World’s Longest Sea Bridge this Year
What an astonishing achievement this is. China will soon complete the world’s longest sea bridge. A fifty-five kilometre sea bridge, and a six and a half kilometre under-sea tunnel. “The engineering challenges have been immense. The…
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Bitcoin Trading Scam
There is a never-ending parade of new share and currency trading scams. Bitcoin scams are the latest; they won’t be the last. Geoffrey Luck tells the story of a friend who was convinced by a tale…
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Syria: A Christian Response
Part of a long and thoughtful article by Sohrab Ahmari, writing at Commentary Magazine. ” … the troubling outcome of the Iraq project doesn’t automatically vindicate the reflexive Christian opposition to today’s escalation in Syria. Christian supporters…
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Syria: Sending a Message
How to send a message that use of chemical weapons crosses a red line, as then President Obama insisted (and then, appallingly, failed to act), without involving the US in another pointless ground war on the…
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Green Power, Black Death
Paul Driessen pointed out years ago that green policies mean stopping developing nations from developing by depriving them of energy and clean water. Viv Forbes lists the ways green policies also undermine the continuing growth of…
