The Journal
All writing
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Philippines Take ‘Ransom’ Approach To Terrorists
Still a very dangerous situation, but I think this is cool – and it seems to be working. The Phillippine government refused to negotiate with the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, and flatly told them to sod off…
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Nancy Pelosi Was Happy With Waterboarding Seven Years Ago
At least, she never complained then. This was the year after 9/11 after all. The three prisoners who were waterboarded were Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Abu Zubaydah, an Al…
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King Bird 50 And Other UFO Mysteries
A B-50 Superfortress, a plane that went out of service in the late fifties, and which matches the description of a plane lost in 1948, lands in a storm near Thule Air Force Base in Greenland…
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Anglican Priest Jailed For Molesting Boys
Canon Barry Greaves pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court last Thursday to seven counts of indecent treatment of boys under 17 and two of indecent treatment of boys under 12. I was sorry to read…
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Obama’s Approval rating = Bush’s Rating Eight Years Ago
From Rasmussen Reports. President Barack Obama’s approval ratings are virtually identical to those of George W Bush at the same point in his presidency. Interesting.
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Islam Is The Religion Of Peace – If You Disagree We Will Kill You
Pakistan is one of at least five Muslim countries in which the number of Muslims deliberately murdered by Islamic fundamentalists in the past year exceeds the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the Hamas conflict with…
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Philippine Forces To Rescue Red Cross Worker
Sulu provincial Governor Abdusakur Tan has ordered troops to rescue kidnapped Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni. Vagni was kidnapped with two other Red Cross workers, Filippina Mary Jean Lacaba and Swiss man Andreas Notter on the…
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Hundreds Of Thousands Attend ANZAC Day Commemorations
On the 25th April 1915 troops from Australia and New Zealand landed north of Gaba Tepe in Turkey at a spot now known as Anzac Cove. 2,000 men from Australia and New Zealand were killed on the…
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Refugees – ‘We Will Come Because Of Rudd’
Yes, there is a general increase in the number of people around the globe seeking new and safer homes. But as Andrew Bolt has shown, this general increase is not sufficient to account for the dramatically higher number…
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Tribunal Dismisses Teacher’s Racism Claim
I’m amazed but pleased by this obviously commonsense decision from the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Fiona Dickie, of mixed Zulu and English background, complained that she had been subjected to a ‘campaign of racism’ at the Melbourne school where…
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Three Cheers For The Australian Defence Force
The Australian Navy has released photos of before and after the explosion on board the boat of illegal immigrants north of Australia a week ago. The boat exploded after passengers doused it with petrol in an attempt to…
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Nail Gun Murder
This is gruesome. Police have released an x-ray picture of the head of Chen (aka Anthony) Liu, who was murdered in Sydney last year. He was shot in the head multiple times with a nail gun.…
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Was The 2020 Summit A Waste Of Time?
Well, duh. Yahoo/Seven has a poll asking this question. At 9am this morning the answer was entirely predictable. This is a good indicator of the basic common sense of the ordinary Australian. The kind who never stood…
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At Least Ahmadinejad Is Consistent
Iranian President Imanutjob said at a conference in Teheran on Wednesday that Israel is ‘a regime that only understands the language of violence and force. I am confident that there will come a day when all Zionist…
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No Evidence Against Slumdog Dad
Mumbai police have found nothing in newspaper reports, or in video of a meeting between a fake sheik and Rafiq Qureshi, to suggest he was trying to sell his daughter, Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali. There…


