Andrew L. Urban

Iran attacks – as America’s left wing stops flying

8 January 2020 1:09 pm

As Iran fires off missiles at US military bases — but avoiding the big ones with lots of American soldiers — in…

Fluid factism grips the world

27 December 2019 5:00 am

For holiday reading I have dived into non-fiction books filled with facts and hard evidence (cod, salt, volcanoes, earthquakes), to…

Putin is cackling as the Democrats debauch democracy

17 December 2019 4:00 pm

The brutal, brazen and belligerent partisanship of the Democrats in their grubby attempt — soon to be failed attempt —…

Left-leaning leaders doom their parties

15 December 2019 12:00 pm

The evidence is in.  Jeremy Corbyn has done as Malcolm Turnbull almost did and Bill Shorten definitely did and Anthony Albanese is now doing:…

Damn due process, let’s impeach Trump anyway

6 December 2019 6:25 pm

We are witnessing America’s arguably most destructive political convulsion as the Democrats’ move to impeach President Donald Trump. It is…

When will China’s brittle autocracy break?

5 December 2019 7:48 pm

You don’t have to be a China watching political historian to recognise the accuracy of the observation that China has…

Climate change – as it really is

3 December 2019 4:30 pm

The most important and useful essay this year on climate change is an op-ed by Dr Judith Curry written for…

How Pauline Hanson became Shanghai Sam in drag

30 November 2019 6:50 pm

The CFMMEU is to Australia’s industrial relations system what China is to the West: a bully with too much money…

Climate cranks turn up the heat

26 November 2019 2:40 pm

Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…

Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants

23 November 2019 4:56 pm

Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…

We are only half-reconciled

17 August 2019 9:00 am

Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…

Will Hong Kong be the spark for a wider revolt?

6 August 2019 4:35 pm

Hong Kong demonstrations are the fuse, and many in the Beijing dictatorship – those who know the history of revolutions…

All you need to know this week

3 August 2019 5:59 pm

Melbourne City Council, not to be outdone by Sydney Mayor Clover Moore’s declaration of a Climate Emergency plans to declare…

No knockout left hook from Mueller

25 July 2019 5:16 pm

The question I hurled several times at my TV during the six-hour-long Mueller hearing at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday…

Labor won’t find it Albaneasy

27 May 2019 5:03 pm

Eating soup with your right hand when you are naturally left handed is very difficult; you’re bound to spill some.…

Where the division of identity politics gets you

21 May 2019 7:53 am

It was Labor’s political owl Graham Richardson, who, just a couple of weeks before the event, was promoting his presence…

Free speech, kicking føcking faces in and why Labor can’t be trusted on freedom of religion

16 May 2019 3:49 pm

The Greens candidate for the south Sydney seat of Barton, Connor Parissis, has been exposed for hurling abuse at Christians…

Shorten smiles

14 May 2019 6:06 pm

We’ve had a concentrated dose of Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten of late as they race for the Lodge, throwing…

Character building

11 May 2019 9:00 am

Having fired off his first challenge in paragraph one (‘Read every word of this book, but don’t believe a word…

Jim Molan’s second surge?

5 May 2019 6:28 pm

In front of over 300 enthusiastic supporters at Balgowlah RSL today, New South Wales Senator Jim Molan made the case…

Why does a good bloke like Tony Abbott attract such vile enemies?

3 May 2019 4:03 pm

All those anonymously plastered up posters of Tony Abbott around his electorate of Warringah defaced with the c word, among…

Time to test catastrophist candidates’ ‘end is nigh’ pie in the sky

2 May 2019 11:56 am

Candidates such as Zali Steggall in Warringah are campaigning on fear of catastrophic climate change. She wants to save the…

If one scientist was enough for Einstein…

23 April 2019 2:27 pm

How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…

It’s the stupid, economy

13 April 2019 6:36 pm

Trust Labor to get it arse about. Bill Clinton famously used the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” to win the…

The Tasmanian yacht murder: a groundbreaking new appeal

23 March 2019 6:01 pm

In a historic decision to grant Sue Neill-Fraser leave to appeal against her 2010 murder conviction, Justice Brett of Tasmania’s…