The Journal
Politics
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Really Inconvenient Truths (For Liberals)
Just ordered this book from Amazon: The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About–Because They Helped Cause Them Like most people, I want to live in a world where we…
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Jesus Was A Community Organisor, Pilate Was A Governor
So (blinding flash of religious insight) Barack Obama must be wonderful, and Sarah Palin is really, really bad. Just overlook the fact that Bill Clinton was also a governor. Because he was like, you know, cool…
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Free Speech, Climate Change, Fiji and Holocaust Denial
Historian and former teacher Frederick Toben has been found guilty of contempt of court because he continued to publish material claiming the Holocaust never happened, and that some people (notably some Jews) were making money out of…
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Changed Rules Encourage Immigration Queue Jumpers
With sometimes tragic results. A boat carrying illegal immigrants exploded this morning as it was being escorted to Christmas Island by Australian naval ship HMAS Albany. It is not clear yet whether the boat was deliberately…
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Climate Science is Wrong. Yes, We Know – But This Is On The ABC!
Bob Carter has been challenging the popular media/political view of climate science for years. So have I. Bob Carter even linked to my introduction to Global Warming Theory on his website. Thanks Bob. But no one at the ABC has…
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If Republicans Are In it, It Can’t Be Grassroots
That seems to be the message from some liberal commentators on the protests about Obama’s spending-spree and high-tax policies, which are occurring around the US as I write. Nope. Not grassroots. Nope. They’ve been organised. Those…
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What Works and What Doesn’t
According to protestors at the G20, capitalism doesn’t work. It certainly works better than anything else that has ever been tried. It seems odd to me that people complain endlessly about the government, and then some of…
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Obama Stands Firm On House Built On Sand
Well, that’s not quite what he said. Jesus said that people had a choice about building their lives on the rock foundation of truth, or on the shifting sands of fashion and desire. Obama said people had a…
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I Am No Fan Of Gordon Brown
The Prime Minister of England. But he seems a decent enough bloke. I find it difficult to believe he would ever have countenanced the kind of deliberate and malicious smearing of poltical opponents that one of his…
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Obama – Let Them Eat Pizza
Is this guy out of his mind? Unemployment is at its highest levels for twenty years. People are being forced out their homes, soup kitchens are struggling to meet the demand. And President Barack Obama, community organiser,…
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Islamists Rejoice in Italian Earthquake Deaths
Nearly 300 killed in the Abruzzo earthquake including children, others still missing, and this is a cause for rejoicing? “At last they have had their dark days too. O Allah, kill them and leave them destitute vagabonds,”…
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President Pantywaist
I’m not sure I know what that means. I guess it means Gerald Warner thinks Barack Obama is a bit of a nancy boy. Or at least that Obama is more style than substance – but…
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Federal Opposition Bashes the Banks
Opposition Finance spokesperson Helen Coonan says the government ought to be harder on the banks, taking steps to make them pass on the full amount of Reserve Bank cuts in official rates. A perennially popular move. But…
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Obama Bows to King Abdullah
While Queen Elizabeth gets a nod. This is all over the internet, I know. Perhaps because it seems to say something important. I wasn’t going to comment, but this YouTube video makes it clear just how…
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$43 Billion and No Business Plan
Kevin Rudd admitted today that the Federal Government had no business plan to confirm the new broadband plan’s viability or cost effectiveness compared with other options. Malcolm Turnbull said: “This is the most reckless statement about…
