The Journal
Current Affairs
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Costello’s Silliness
Wins a bit of attention for The Age. Former Treasurer Peter Costello wrote in his column in The Age on Wednesday: Footballers are not chosen for their moral principles. They do not go into a national draft for budding…
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Villagers Outraged
The Daily Mail reports that residents of villages in Surrey and Kent have been told to remove wire mesh from their windows, because the mesh could pose a risk to burglars, and the burglars could claim compensation if they…
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Better Border Security Means Fairer Treatment For Refugees
Some interesting facts in an article by Paul Sheehan in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald. The Department of Immigration … is busy spending an unprecedented amount delivering an ineffective program on the scale of waste comparable to…
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This Is A Bit Rude
Antipodean Greens have established themselves as the rudest on the planet, with the New Zealanders easily winning the local derby. Tomorrow Prime Minister Julia Gillard will address the New Zealand Parliament in Wellington in what her…
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London or Lakemba?
This short (11 minute) video is by a French journalist. It documents the presence and growing danger of islamism in London. It could easily be Lakemba in Sydney. My younger sister lived in Lakemba. It can…
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A Tree By Its Fruits
So what kind of fruit tree is Obama? From Hot Air: The Bible says that you will know a tree by the kind of fruit it bears, meaning that you will know what someone believes by…
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Assange and Robertson
Everything I have read about Julian Assange suggests that he is a self-righteous glory seeker, unconcerned about anyone’s privacy, rights or welfare except his own. The argument that the public is entitled to access to private…
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Horrifying Violence From The Religion Of Peace
Sickening and disturbing and not for viewing by children: This is video of an event that took place in Indonesia on the 6th of February. 1,000 Muslims attacked a small group of members of the Ahmadiyah sect,…
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Sarkozy Joins Merkel and Cameron
President of France Nicolas Sarkozy has joined UK Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in declaring recent attempts to force multi-culturalism onto Western communities a failure. “We have been too concerned about the…
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Same Old Bogeyman
Ron Burgess at Business Spectator describes Australian uber-alarmist Flim Flannery as ‘Labor’s new bogeyman. I am not sure in what sense Flannery or his message are new. He has been constantly, amusingly wrong, but at least he has been…
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Vile and Incomprehensible
The horrifying thing about Tania’s Staker’s treatment of her children is not just that a mother could be so appallingly, horrifyingly cruel. Sadly, for individuals to have no regard for the needs or feelings or humanity of others…
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Random Conversations
News of the latest violent incident at a detention centre for illegal immigrants brought to mind a couple of recent conversations with customers. The first was with a woman who said she could understand people wanting to get away…
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A Religion Cannot Be Bad…
Nor can a culture. We all just have to accept one another and learn from one another. Yes. Lovely. Except that accepting this lovely idea means ignoring virtually the whole of world history. Andrew McCarthy at…
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A Renewable Energy Project That Doesn’t Cost More Than It Saves
via Instapundit. These low tech, fuel efficient wood burning stoves are a renewable energy project that will save lives, by leaving more time for mothers to spend with their children, and more money to be spent…
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Ann Timson Is My Hero
Ann Timson, a 71 year old armed only with a handbag, thought someone was in trouble and came running, taking on six young men armed with hammers: A British grandmother who “clobbered” a gang of sledgehammer-wielding jewel…
