The Journal
All writing
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Selective Outrage
What is wrong with the world? A pastor in a tiny church decides to burn a few copies of the Koran because he believes it is evil. This causes international outrage and threats of violence, and these responses are…
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Stephanie Rice Loves Big Brother
Seeing Stephanie Rice sobbing her way through an apology for using the word faggot, acknowledging her dreadfulness, her betrayal of the Soviet everyone’s trust in her, and affirming that she really did love big brother gay people…
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Julia Mark IV
Julia Gillard wants to redefine Labor’s heart, promising to dump the culture of spin that marred Kevin Rudd’s leadership, demanding fresh ideas from her MPs and promising to keep her door open to her colleagues. The…
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Burning Buildings, Burning Books
So a preacher in Florida is going to burn a few copies of the Koran. Yawn. This is supposed to be representative of ‘anti-muslim frenzy’ in America. Yawn. That phrase came not from Muslims but from…
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CO2 Lunacy
A comment I posted on Tim Blair’s blog this morning: There are between three and four molecules of CO2 for every 10,000 particles of air. Anthropogenic CO2 is assumed to be about 4% of that, which comes…
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Gillard Says Result Proves the System Works
It certainly worked for her. Maybe that’s all that counts for her, or all she can see. The Coalition got more votes and more seats. When the final result was delivered by two independents whose own electorates…
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What The Heck?
The blighters were just playing games when they checked Tony Crook’s intentions. What was the point of that? Just to prove that they are the big boys now? No one in the playground is going to push…
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Maybe…
Tomorrow, Tuesday, we will hear that Tony Abbott is to become the next Prime Minster. Earlier today we heard that the three independents had sought a commitment from WA Nationals MP Tony Crook that he would not…
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BBC Biased?
Well, it was biased. But we’ve fixed it. It’s all OK now. That’s according to Director General Mark Thompson. Well, good. Everyone in England who owns a TV pays for the BBC through taxes and licence fees.…
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Australian Exports
Or, to be more accurate, one Australian export, Sheikh Feiz Muhammad. Feiz Muhammad, a former Sydney boxer, now Muslim teacher, has called for the execution by beheading of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. And for that matter,…
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Witches
Pentecostal loonies in Nigeria: ‘Child witches cause poverty, kill them!’ Helpful advice for Nigerians from Plannned Parenthood loonies in North America: ‘Children cause poverty, kill them!’ Green loonies agree, and offer practical help. Nope. No connection there.
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Some Gay People Are Gay
There is no getting around reality. Someone decides it is insulting to call people whose intellectual development has been retarded ‘retarded.’ So we are told to call them ‘intellectually handicapped.’ Soon ‘intellectually handicapped’ becomes a form of…
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What Was Accomplished in Iraq
From Victor Davis Hanson at National Review Online: The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in…
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Beslan Sixth Anniversary
A tribute to those who suffered so horribly during the siege at Beslan. If you have the stomach for it, and you should, Pam Geller has more detail on what happend at Beslan. Not all Muslims…
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Tony Needs To Toughen Up
Brandt has signed up with Labor after Bob Brown was promised a carbon tax. Wilkie has signed up with Labor after he was promised a renovated hospital in Hobart. Tony Abbott now needs to be absolutely…