The media vs the people
‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…
Malcolm, you promised… so go
Malcolm Turnbull’s backing off trying to bully his party into a NEGative plan has given the Liberals a golden opportunity…
Dumb and dumber
The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…
A quick quiz you can’t win
Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
American mania
America’s current crisis over illegal immigration, family separations and border policies generally, have highlighted and exacerbated the nature of America’s…
Memo Julie Bishop: get us out of the UNHCR
Political leadership: leading the way on values with action. Doing what is right. Explaining and defending it clearly. Examples: this…
Donald Trump and the fury of the impotent
The public moral disintegration and demeaning of an entire cohort of people reached its zenith with the globally televised meltdown…
Nukes 101 with Kim Jong-un
Kim Jong-un’s nuclear bluff looks like working. He and President Trump are on Singapore soil as I write, preparing to…
The great undiagnosed dysrationalia epidemic
I have long wondered why really intelligent people, like Malcolm Turnbull, say, and others, fail to see how irrational it…
The Parisites
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…
Australia, a failing state
According to the UN’s definition, ‘failed states’ are political entities that demonstrate little or no ability to provide their citizens…
Assad did it, not Putin
Last week’s chemical attack on dozens of his citizens – including children – has elicited no outrage from President Bashir…
South Africa deaths reveal the real racists
The critics of plans to offer asylum to white South African farmers are morally bankrupt and stupid to boot. Morally…
Illusion of knowledge warming the planet
In this the 30th anniversary year of the IPCC, we should look back and remember the original sin with which…
Illegal immigration fuels the new American civil war
Much of the anti-Trump media and their echoes in Australia must believe people are fools, given their propensity for misleading…
Green on the outside, rancid on the inside
Illogical, ignorant, infantile, irrational and irrelevant, the Greens are a rancid infestation in Australia’s political kitchen, as they proved recently…
Mass migration and the weakening of the West
Douglas Murray’s provocative article in The Weekend Australian ‘Add new migrants and stir carefully’ discusses the challenges of mass migration…
Trumping Obama
From Fox News: Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips talked to students at New York City’s John Jay College, reading them quotes…
The polls bell for thee, Malcolm
The Prime Minister is deeply unpopular with much of the Liberal Party base, pundits keep telling us, yet he is…
That’s not climate change…
Global warming – more like global hotting at times – was a function of earth’s climate long before humans used…
Losing the battle for Britain
Q: What’s the connection between jazz great Thelonious Monk and a dachshund called Charlie Barker? A: A cartoonist named Michael…
Australian notes
Memo to Republicans: Australia is not a colony The fundamental difference between Australia as a ‘colony’ and every other colony…
Greens patronising over Australia Day
In the last few minutes (history time) some white dudes, notably the Greens, have taken it upon themselves to speak…
Manufacturing climate consensus
Just out, the first book to be published by the US-based Global Warming Foundation is by the Australian writer/researcher Bernie…
