The Journal
Politics
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More Americans Trust Netanyahu Than Obama
The margin is not high, but still, that’s one little bright spot in a world of depressing news. The Washington Examiner reports: Americans might be more frustrated with Obama than they are irritated by Netanyahu. “A poll…
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Dud Climate Prophecies Have a Long History
In 1989 the UN was telling us that entire nations would be wiped off the earth if global warming were not reversed by the year 2000. As Donna Laframboise points out, since this hasn’t happened, aren’t…
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Shut Up and Eat Your Lentils
Menzies House is doing its best to make people aware of the appalling censorship of public comments on the laughable (and depressing) “Clean Energy Future’ legislation. A parliamentary joint select committee (I always thought a joint committee was…
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Persistence
Over the last weekend I thought I would give up writing this blog. It has been an interesting couple of years. Some 1200 posts, half a million words. This Winter has been difficult. Constant personal issues involving…
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Just Some Stuff You MIght Have Missed
If you only read or watch or listen to Australian news sources. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has cut trade and diplomatic relations with Israel, is increasing naval activity close to Israel, has threatened to attack Cyprus…
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Robert Manne Is No Intellectual
Not if by ‘intellectual’ you mean someone who is capable of considering events and evidence, and coming to reasonable conclusions, a person capable of careful and objective analysis. His article in the Sydney Morning Herald on September…
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Blood Sandwiches
From the invaluable MEMRI. With this sort of filth being taught publicly in Islamic countries, is it any wonder children grow up hating the Jews?
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Howard on Terorism and Our Response Over the Last Ten Years
I think John Howard is a little too enthusiastic about Indonesia, where there is still a troubling level of Islamic violence against minority religious groups, and about the so-called Arab Spring. There is reasonable concern that movements interpreted by…
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Rick Perry and the Value of Human Life
I am not a US citizen (though my wife is), so I can’t vote in the US presidential election anyway. And I support the death penalty in very limited circumstances. But I could not vote for Rick…
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A Government That Does Nothing
Or at least, a government that does very little, would be a pleasant change. Evidence suggests that the more government does, the worse off people are. The problem with the Gillard government is not that is has accomplished nothing. The…
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And Right On Cue
Five minutes after I posted the previous article about global warming alarmists losing debates and resorting to insults, an article by professor of psychology Stephan Lewandowksy appeared on the ABC’s Drum website. It starts off well…
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Geert Wilder’s Speech in Berlin
I don’t usually repost entire articles from other sites, but Geert Wilders speech in Berlin yesterday (Saturday) touches on so many things of importance to Australia – bureaucracy, multi-culturalism, loss of national identity, democracy and hope – that…
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Not Buying It
Everyone can relax. The whole Craig Thomson thing, it was all just a misunderstanding. He thought the union said it was buy-sexual friendly.
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Ignoring Reality
In a natural follow up to the story below, where a bunch of toddlers attempt to pretend something does not exist, the UK government and the BBC pretend something does exist – cheap renewable energy. Christopher Booker…
