The Journal
Current Affairs
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Democracy Will Burn
On this day, September 11, Muslims burn US and UK flags outside the US embassy in London: Other choice lines include ‘Queen and country go to hell!,’ ‘Burn, burn, USA!’ I think I agree with the loutish…
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Future Pie Makers
On 16th August the Sydney Morning Herald published a column by Paul Sheehan. Sheehan was writing about Gillard’s pork pies. He described her as a serial, brazen liar. At the end of the article, he talked…
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The Rainbow Alliance
The Labor Greens alliance has independents Windsor and Oakeshott by the short and curlies. Or over a barrel if you prefer. They have been conned. Their fond notion that they might have a respected voice in a…
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Floods and Dams
On Kangaroo Island, we have just been through a record breakingly wet Winter. There have been floods on the mainland too, but water restrictions are still in place in capital cities. The excuse for not building…
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Selective Outrage
What is wrong with the world? A pastor in a tiny church decides to burn a few copies of the Koran because he believes it is evil. This causes international outrage and threats of violence, and these responses are…
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Burning Buildings, Burning Books
So a preacher in Florida is going to burn a few copies of the Koran. Yawn. This is supposed to be representative of ‘anti-muslim frenzy’ in America. Yawn. That phrase came not from Muslims but from…
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Gillard Says Result Proves the System Works
It certainly worked for her. Maybe that’s all that counts for her, or all she can see. The Coalition got more votes and more seats. When the final result was delivered by two independents whose own electorates…
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What The Heck?
The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions. What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push…
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BBC Biased?
Well, it was biased. But we’ve fixed it. It’s all OK now. That’s according to Director General Mark Thompson. Well, good. Everyone in England who owns a TV pays for the BBC through taxes and licence fees.…
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Australian Exports
Or, to be more accurate, one Australian export, Sheikh Feiz Muhammad. Feiz Muhammad, a former Sydney boxer, now Muslim teacher, has called for the execution by beheading of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. And for that matter,…
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Witches
Pentecostal loonies in Nigeria: ‘Child witches cause poverty, kill them!’ Helpful advice for Nigerians from Plannned Parenthood loonies in North America: ‘Children cause poverty, kill them!’ Green loonies agree, and offer practical help. Nope. No connection there.
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Some Gay People Are Gay
There is no getting around reality. Someone decides it is insulting to call people whose intellectual development has been retarded ‘retarded.’ So we are told to call them ‘intellectually handicapped.’ Soon ‘intellectually handicapped’ becomes a form of…
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What Was Accomplished in Iraq
From Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Online: The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in…
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Beslan Sixth Anniversary
A tribute to those who suffered so horribly during the siege at Beslan. If you have the stomach for it, and you should, Pam Geller has more detail on what happend at Beslan. Not all Muslims…
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Tony Needs To Toughen Up
Brandt has signed up with Labor after Bob Brown was promised a carbon tax. Wilkie has signed up with Labor after he was promised a renovated hospital in Hobart. Tony Abbott now needs to be absolutely…