The Journal
All writing
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A Cleaner, Greener World Thanks to Coal and Oil
No more the grinding poverty and filth of 150 years ago. Fossil fuels have made the world a safer, cleaner, greener place. That’s something to celebrate! From Viv Forbes at Carbon Sense. It was petroleum that…
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Green Power, Black Death
That is the subtitle of Paul Driessen’s powerful book describing how Western “green” restrictions on the cheap energy the West demands and takes for granted result in suffering and death in the world’s poorest nations: It…
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The Nazis and Sustainable Development
A longish article from Mark Musser on the origins and continuing influence of the theory of sustainable development: Understandably, Albert Speer Jr. has spent much of his life trying to escape the long shadow of his…
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Osama Was Her Pin-up
Roger Franklin writes in Quadrant Magazine: On the western flood plain of the Maribyrnong, the lesser of Melbourne’s two brown rivers, Buddhists have built themselves a handsome temple and, most arresting, a gigantic golden statue of…
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Why Socialised Medicine Does Not Work
I don’t usually copy and paste entire articles, but this, by John Stossel on his hospital experience, is just too accurate to ignore: I write this from the hospital. Seems I have lung cancer. My doctors…
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Judge Refuses to Jail Girl Who Stabbed Pedophile Who Raped Her
He raped her when she was eight, but was not sentenced to jail because, you know, cultural differences. “A judge offered to pay a teenage girl’s court fine as he refused to jail her for stabbing…
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Offensive Erdogan Poetry Competition
Definitely a contest worth entering: From Douglas Murray at The Spectator Introducing ‘The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition’ – £1000 prize to be won. Nobody should be surprised that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instituted…
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Rape? But how was I to know .. ?
By asking? Checking? “13-Year-Old’s Rape Case Dismissed Because Her Body Is ‘Well-Developed’ A Swedish court acquitted a 27-year-old man of raping a 13-year-old girl because she looked older. Add this to similar cases in the U.S.…
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Forget Terror and Starvation …
Well yes. It certainly does seem a questionable mindset.
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If You Really Think You Are 6 foot 5 ….
Reality just doesn’t count any more. And loss of connection with reality is insanity.
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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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Veges Rule!
This image has been floating around Facebook for the last few days: Prompting various responses: Here’s the mind-blowing argument: “If we each grow a large crop of different food, we could all trade with each other…
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Chalk Banned on Campus
Because some mean nasty horrible people use it to write stuff we disagree with… The struggle is real, my friends. We’ve already looked at the horror being inflicted upon special snowflakes around the country these days…
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A Million Students Demand More Free Stuff
Well perhaps they do, but they didn’t turn up to say so. The Million Student March has four demands, which as many as a dozen people sat down to demand: Tuition-free public college Cancellation of all…
