Trump on the growing threat of terrorism inside our borders
“If we don’t get tough and we don’t get smart and fast, we are not going to have our country any more.”
View ArticleAnti-capitalism is a form of hate speech that has caused the deaths of...
I have been reading David Solway’s The Problem with Hate Speech which has brought this to mind. It is about how the left is doing what it can to make arguments contrary to its own beliefs illegal by...
View ArticleWhat difference does it make?
I think Mrs Clinton famously asked the question: What difference does it make? I raise the point because an interesting article was published in the Canberra Times relating to privacy and the census....
View ArticleScholarships and the age of consent
So here is a story that generated some attention during the day: A leading education scholarship provider backed by some of Australia’s biggest businesses has begun quizzing high school students on...
View ArticleThe $100 million man
Compare and contrast: Obama on Iran payment: ‘We do not pay ransom’. Freed Iranian Hostage: Iranians Told Me They Were Waiting For Another Plane To Arrive Before Letting Us Go. I wonder who is telling...
View ArticleA little bit of fraud amongst friends
An astonishing justification of poor behaviour: The nine Australians charged with falsifying documents are innocent pawns in a war declared by Brazilian authorities on Olympic athletes in the wake of...
View ArticleSo what has feminism done lately?
A very interesting conversation between Trisha Jha and Parnell McGuinness on feminism. Trisha Jha, it seems, won’t be calling herself a feminist any longer: It’s been a long time coming –...
View ArticleThe revolt of the dispossessed
I have been re-reading Christopher Lasch’s brilliant The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy which was published more than a decade ago. It’s about the we-know-what’s-best-for-you types...
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Greenies bleating
Somebody called Hugo Rifkind is complaining about the Trump victory: Ask yourself why Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Yes, a hoax. Not for him the careful equivocation of the “sceptic” who,...
View ArticleApartheid doesn’t work like that
There is an op-ed in the Australian this morning that contains this curious sentence:* I object to public policy treating me as an “ethnic”. I claim all rights available to any Australian and demand no...
View ArticleSlow news day
Do you realise that there are people out there who live in sin? As in they carry on like they are married, but are not married. Some of these people even have children out of wedlock. I suspect that...
View ArticleDavid Leyonhjelm guest post. It’s all about trust
In July 2015 the Abbott government introduced a customs regulation to prohibit imports of seven shot lever action shotguns. The announcement by the Prime Minister made clear it was part of the...
View ArticleCross Post: Rachel Moore You are the racist, actually, not me
I’m an Orthodox Jewish settler raising seven children in the West Bank. I’m also an American citizen and I voted for Donald Trump. Yeah, I’m that lady. I opened a local business here, and I did so on...
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Enlightenment principles
This statement is from an exhibit in the Arts Museum in Aarhus and captures the values of the enlightenment in a way that spells them out so that they can be understood in the times in which we live.
View ArticleDonald Trump and conservative values
What would they know about the meaning of conservative? First we have Paul Kelly writing his column with the heading Conservative principles and values are being trashed. And then there’s Brian...
View ArticleMichael Novak 1933-2017
If you don’t know the work of Michael Novak, let me recommend his writings to you, especially his Spirit of Democratic Capitalism which had a big influence on me. This is a memoriam titled The Soul of...
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Keeping their eye on you
I don’t know whether this was what Trump intended but the stories about Russian hacking the election have gone absolutely dead, as have almost all stories related to Obama having placed some kind of...
View ArticleNow what and where does it go from here?
Where are the positives in bombing Syria? Sort of diminishes the story that Russia had hacked the election to ensure that Trump would win. Kind of cuts the feet beneath the Democrats since they are the...
View ArticleI need some urgent advice
I am heading off to California and while I am at Stanford for a couple of days I expect I will see the person who I have known longer than anyone else in the whole of my life. But he is now from...
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