This is an excerpt from Newt Gingrich’s speech to the Republic convention. To read the whole speech click here. Now what I want to focus on is a subject that has dominated my thinking for decades, how do we keep America safe? Keeping America safe is the first responsibility of the American president. There have […]
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We are at war with radical Islamists – Newt Gingrich
Friday, July 22nd, 2016Climate ‘skeptic’ out but eugenicist in at UWA
Wednesday, June 17th, 2015I’m not sure how this works, but the University of Western Australia decided it couldn’t accept federal government money to host Bjorn Lomborg’s Australian Consensus Centre, but it is happy to host a lecture by Peter Singer, a man who advocates infanticide, eugenics and bestiality. Lomborg’s sin was apparently to question not the official IPCC […]
Continue Reading...Farewell to Camelot
Friday, May 8th, 2015JFK died so young that it is hard to realise that he was one of the generation that defined itself by the Great Depression and WWII. If he were alive to day he would have been almost 98. At his funeral they played Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings Op11. They framed his administration as Camelot, […]
Continue Reading...Nothing tough about trade-him-in Tony anymore
Friday, March 20th, 2015Tony Abbott has been portrayed as too tough and unfeeling by his enemies for as long as he’s been in parliament. This is wrong. Despite his obvious exercise discipline what we’re seeing at the moment is a Pavlova – brittle on the outside and soft in. If Abbott were tough then he would not now […]
Continue Reading...Stone Barry Spurr? Ask Sydney Uni
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014When you can’t play the ball, kick the man in the groin – that’s the iron rule of Green Left politics these days. So if the federal government commissions an inquiry which states the bleeding obvious – that there is not enough Western literature or culture in the national curriculum and too much indigenous – […]
Continue Reading...Living with the hypocrites – showing on SBS
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014Imagine my surprise to see Gregory Storer and Michael Barnett starring in the first instalment of SBS’s Living with the Enemy. These are the two gay activists who tried to put On Line Opinion out of business four years ago costing us tens of thousands of dollars, editor Susan Prior her job, and now me my […]
Continue Reading...Let’s rub out bigotry (and Catherine Deveny) Bill
Friday, August 15th, 2014I always thought that George Brandis was right – it is legal to be a bigot in this country – but Bill Shorten has corrected him, a correction which he tacitly seems to have accepted by abandoning his attempt to change section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. According to Bill “…bigotry has no place […]
Continue Reading...Why not retire at 81?
Thursday, April 24th, 2014The whole idea of retirement is a new-fangled invention, and not one that I think has been for the good. When it comes to work, I’m with Marx – it is what defines us. A life without work is a life without definition. Before the 20th century there was no idea that there was a […]
Continue Reading...Have boobs displaced breasts?
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013I’ve always had a slightly antique turn of phrase. It comes from early exposure to the King James version of the bible and as a child being allowed to pick-up and read any book in our house, whenever it was written. But I’ve also thought I was very sensitive to the nuance of language, partly […]
Continue Reading...Adam Goodes
Monday, May 27th, 2013This morning I read the Sydney Morning Herald’s letters page, which was largely devoted to Adam Goodes’ pointing out a racist slur during an AFL game the other night. The reactions ranged from the typical schtick of the victimhood lobby to the ramblings of someone who tried to explain away Goodes’ being called an “ape” […]
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