The Journal
Gender
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Nothing is Free
I have said this before, but campaign promises in Queensland and arguments in US about health insurance coverage make the point worth repeating. When people say something should be free, what they are really saying is…
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How to Make a Point Without Leaving a Mess
Unlike the occupy mobsters, these ladies have a point, it is a point worth making, they don’t leave a mess for anyone else to clean up, and no one got raped or murdered. Femen 5, Occupiers…
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Why Women Earn Less
Essentially, it is because women have choices about blending work, leisure, and home life which are not available to men. Warren Farrell said in The Myth of Male Powerthat women have three options when it comes to work:…
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Pornography and Terrorism
Jennifer S Bryson notes the high proportion of captured terrorists who have had large amounts of pornography in their possession. Pornography makes women and men masturbation aids. The actors cease to be human. Their only purpose is…
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Get Real!
Wow! Language warning. Courage warning. Un-PC warning. And on reaping what we sow, by the fierce Theodore Dalrymple: The riots are the apotheosis of the welfare state and popular culture in their British form. A population…
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Go Sarah
I doubted that Sarah Palin was electable as US president, even if she won the Republican nomination. I have changed my mind. She could do the job. The democrat/liberal claim she is stupid is based on…
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Slutwalk = Nutwalk
Organisers of the Slutwalk rally declare: Sluts are sex workers. Sluts are virgins. Sluts are mothers with their teenage daughters. Sluts wear beanies, fishnet stockings, G-string leotards, polar fleece and jeans. Really? Are these women (and…
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Jamie’s Betrayal
‘Jamie’ is a ten year old boy. He thinks he should be a girl. When I was ten I thought I came from another planet, that my real name was Dr Zuric, and that I had secretly…
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Boards and Quotas
Fifteen years later, a letter from the then CEO of Cypress (a US designer and manufacturer of semi-conductor based technology) is still the best response to demands for quotas of women or minorities on company (or…
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When is a Baby a Baby?
An unborn baby died yesterday after the car the mother was driving struck a guard rail and went into the Barwon River near Geelong: The woman, who was about 30 weeks’ pregnant, managed to free herself…
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Andrew Bolt and Aboriginality
Andrew Bolt will appear in the Australian Federal Court this week to face complaints made against him and the Herald and Weekly Times under Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act 1975. In 1995 provisions were introduced into that act…
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40 Days For Life
Last Sunday was the first Sunday of Lent, the forty day period of fasting which ends at Easter. Christians remember Jesus’ forty days of fasting in the desert prior to his baptism and public ministry. The purpose…
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Sigh. Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Tonight
Mardi Gras means fat (or big) Tuesday. It is the day before Lent. It is also called Shrove Tuesday because it is a day to be shriven, that is, to confess your sins and ask for…
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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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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…
