The Journal
Politics
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Forget Terror and Starvation …
Well yes. It certainly does seem a questionable mindset.
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Wisdom and Justice are Not Always Popular and Easy
via Andrew Bolt: Antigone’s brave stance for Justice and Nature against unjust human laws is what electrified me. We in the Western world live in days of mad, accelerating, and bewildering change. A same-sex couple is…
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War and the Silent Holocaust
Kind of puts it in perspective:
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Minimum Wages Hurt the Poor
Walmart as an example: “… while the company’s revenues seem high, Walmart’s profit margin is far from fat: a mere 3 percent. The company has billions in expenses every year—so significant that in a 31-day month,…
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Syrian Refugee (?) Fake Hate Crime
I have pretty much gotten to the point that whenever I see news of a hate crime committed against blacks, gays or muslims I assume it is a hoax. There is a long. Very long. And…
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More Money Worries for Australia
Two articles from the Financial Review, both warning about Australia’s debt levels. The first about the National Australia Bank’s concern that further debt increases will risk Australia’s AAA credit rating – meaning higher interest rates, and…
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The Wisdom of GK Chesterton
This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilisations which disregard it.
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A Scholar, a Farmer, and a Nurse
A photo of the War Memorial in Adelaide, taken by my friend the Honourable Peter Lewis, former Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly. The description is Peter’s words. “An amazing moment when it is…
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Nikki Haley for President!
It is pretty clear now that Donald Trump will not get the required number of delegates to win the Republican nomination. There will be a contested convention. At this stage, although he has a majority of…
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What Kind of Conservative Wants a Shorten Victory?
The answer, Miranda, is none. I was a great admirer of Frank Devine. One of Australia’s greatest newspaper men, a person of imagination and integrity, and a superb writer. His daughter Miranda is an insightful and…
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“Safe Schools” Has Nothing to do with Making Schools Safe
“How different then is that gentle, tentative sexuality between parent and child from the love of a paedophile and his/her lover?” “Love, warmth, support and nurture is an important part of the paedophilic relationship.” The author…
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Life in Australian Aboriginal Communities
For, women, it was nasty, brutish and short. An excerpt from an article by Tony Thomas on the Quadrant Magazine website. Newly-arrived British and French were shocked at the local misogyny they encountered. First Fleeter Watkin…
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Oh So True
Even though our eyes are on the US presidential contest at the moment, this applies everywhere. Even in Australia.
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No More Children in Refugee Detention in Australia
8,000 refugee/asylum seeker children were placed in detention during the Labor/Green alliance governments of Gillard and Rudd. Some 1200 men, women and children lost at sea. Now, for the first time in a decade, there is…
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Disagreeing With Us is Mean. You Will Be Stopped.
Anyone who has ever expressed an opinion other than the currently approved opinions will find him or herself nodding in agreement throughout this video. For some people, free speech, the exchange of ideas, discussion of evidence,…
