The Journal
Current Affairs
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You Can’t Spend Your Way Out of Debt
Who would have guessed? Alarmingly this simple fact still seems to be escaping the current US administration. Kelsey Grammer is absolutely right. The ‘stimulus’ package is about rewarding people who are unproductive, or who have been…
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Tough Times Make You Fat
According to the Australian ABC, MacDonalds is doing well in Australia, so soon everyone will be obese. This is another one of those increasingly frequent (especially when it comes to health and climate scares), headlines that look…
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Debate Must Be Stopped. ‘Honour’ Killings? Sorry, No Time.
Via Kathy Shaidle, this story from the Toronto Sun. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has time to investigate and comment on stories published in national magazines over which it has no jurisdiction. It has time to condemn writers…
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Oz Bush Fires – Greenies Responsible
Hmm… The people who lit the fires are immediately responsible. But a measure of responsibility also lies with environmental activists who pressured local councils and other governement agencies to reduce or disallow prescribed (that is controlled protective)…
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The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum
Via Andrew Bolt, this story of the banning of Geert Wilders from Britain. ‘It seems that in Britain the public debate has already been smothered to the extent that a democratically elected politician from another EU…
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Read This Reuters Article
For an idiotic comparison of the division between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, who spend their spare time killing one another, stealing aid (largely given by Israel) and plotting against the ‘Zionist entity’, and different parties in…
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Bushfire Death Toll May Reach 200
Even though Victoria has cooled a little, there are still about twenty fires still out of control. A fifth of the residents of the town of Maryville may be dead. Many bodies are still in burnt homes.…
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Rancher Sued by Illegal Immigrants
I can understand this guy being annoyed: along the trails through his property used by illegal immigrants are piles of litter including human faeces, diapers, chewing gum and drug wrappers. Immigrants have destroyed fences, killed cattle,…
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Just Stop Palin
And don’t let the truth get in the way. Via Michelle Malkin, this story of Ashley Judd’s appearance in a Widlife Action Fund video, complaining about the culling of wolves in Alaska. The video portrays Sarah Palin as…
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Sea Shepherd Stops Harassing Whalers
I am glad that the Sea Shepherd (which might be more appropriately named the Sea Wolf) has stopped harrassing Japanese whaling vessels. Even if you feel strongly about ending whaling, that is no excuse to ram…
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Hostage Beheaded in Pakistan
This is a tragic waste of a life and a tragic loss for Piotr Stanczak’s family. Piotr Stanczak was an engineer. Thank goodness for the courage of people like him, who in spite of the dangers, continue…
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600,000 Jobs Lost
In the US in January. Too soon to blame Obama? Well maybe. This crisis is a direct result of intervention in domestic lending markets by the Carter and Clinton administrations. Bush’s attempts to get more accountability from…
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Obama – Winging It On Foreign Policy
In this case, on Afghanistan. As with Gitmo, and his cabinet candidates, and … and … it might have been better to have done the research and asked the questions before stating the policies which were…
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Faked Autism Data Amounts to Murder
Dr Andrew Wakefield must have known the likelihood that his faked research would reduce vaccination rates and and lead to increased levels of preventable infectious childhood diseases. That is, he must have known than faking data so…
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Hamas Steals Aid, Again.
The UN agency which oversees delivery of aid to the Palestinian Territories has suspended deliveries to Gaza after Hamas last week stole 3500 blankets and 450 food packages from a warehouse, and this week stole ten trucks containing…