The Journal
Politics
-
Science Wins (For Now)
The US Congress has voted to cut funding to the IPCC, the bloated and corrupt UN organisation charged with producing scary graphs about climate change. Amusing graphic take on this development. Of course, the Republicans’ proposed changes…
-
Faith and Science Collide
On the NPR (US public radio) website, Brian Reed writes condescendingly about the benighted residents of Kiribati. Even in a place as vulnerable as Kiribati, there are skeptics. “I’m not easily taken by global scientists prophesizing the…
-
Green Power, Black Death
It has been estimated that 160 people die every minute from malaria or its complications. Malaria is a disease we could eradicate. Paul Driessen writes: Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects…
-
Still Getting Cooler
Cold and wet again this weekend on Kangaroo Island. So wet the race club’s major meet for the year had to be cancelled. I guess this proves global warming. Strange, after all the predictions of drought…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Economist Intelligence Unit – Not So Intelligent
I have said repeatedly that the NBN is a dumb idea – grossly overpriced and completely unnecessary. So you might think I’d agree with the Economist Intelligence Unit that the Australian Labor government’s NBN is not a good plan because…
-
Scientists vs Alarmists
A letter from 36 leading climate scientists responding to the latest round of alarmism. Longish, but worth quoting in full: February 8, 2011 To the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate: In…
