Did Erdogan stage the coup against himself?
Did President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stage the coup against himself? So says – very tentatively – his former political partner and now an opposition figure, Fethullah Gulen, living in exile …
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Going cold Turkey (UPDATED)
11:21am: Erdogan speaking from the Istanbul airport. In the background, Turkey’s founding father Kemal Ataturk looks on and thinks, “you Islamist scumbag”. …
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Nice (UPDATED)
10:21pm: Nice airport evacuated. 10:04pm: Not the first use of a vehicle as a terrorist weapon, not even in France. Meanwhile, it’s a method much encouraged by the Palestinian propaganda …
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Shooting range vs yoga
“Like the outdoors or going to the shooting range? So do a majority of conservatives interested in love. Liberals looking for love prefer museums, yoga and crying.†This is one …
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Pokemon Go jumps the shark
OK, so I finally broke and stopped resisting the craze. Downloaded. Started playing. Now I’m disgusted and disturbed. Never again.
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Glocks easier to get than books? Depends what you mean by “easier”
Rightly or wrongly, the most talked about bit of President Obama’s speech at the memorial service in Dallas is his observation “We flood communities with so many guns that it …
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One World Government – it begins in Brisbane
Dresden has recently hosted the Bilderberg group meeting, causing the conspiracy theorists’ and anti-globalists’ heads to spin again (how many global conspiracies publish their guest lists online? Yep, they are …
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Let’s make all Black Lives Matter
I guess it’s probably just my white privilege talking, but I was never very interested and never wrote a lot about racism and racial issues. As a honkey, born and …
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Democrats – the parallel universe, in 5 easy headlines
There are the known unknowns and the unknown knowns, and then there is the Democratic Party reality.
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The grim cost of no war in Iraq
The left loves fighting wars – against wars. The release of the Chilcot report in Britain has given the anti-Iraq war left the new lease of life in re-fighting 2003. …
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In which I agree with John Howard – the case against a conservative third party
Me and J-Ho? Not really shocking. John Howard at a press conference today: Mr Howard acknowledged that the Liberal Party was in danger of splintering when he reached out to …
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From Europe with love
A few vignettes from Europe, circa mid-2016: Germany: A young left-wing German politician has admitted she lied to police about the racial background of three men who raped her in …
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The Great Malaise: First the US and the UK, France next
We are living in the midst of the Great Malaise, the time of cynicism, disenchantment and distrust. The elites are revolting against the masses and the masses are revolting against …
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#AmericaWasNeverGreat isn’t that great
Nothing perhaps gives me shits more in politics than the smarmy and self-satisfied self-loathing of the Western lefties. The “My country, always wrong†attitude is not only self-indulgent and morally …
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Chrenk’s election post-mortem-palooza
It’s possible that with Malcolm Turnbull as the Prime Minister, the Liberal/National Coalition avoided a landslide defeat at the hands of Bill Shorten’s Labor. It’s possible that had Tony Abbott …
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Please explain Islam
Sometime over the course of the election campaign a small flyer landed in my letterbox from a new party called the Australia Liberty Alliance (the ALA, pronounced Allah). I was …
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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Chalk up another great victory for equality. As a result of a settlement flowing from a class action brought by two gay plaintiffs, a number of Christian internet dating sites …
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Happy birthday America, and please pick up your act
Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 240th anniversary of the original Brexit. Despite some initial reasonable showing from the Remain campaign, the Leave folk did eventually manage …
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Elie Wiesel
While we were busy electioneering in Australia, Elie Wiesel passed away in New York at the age of 87. A Romanian Jew, he was the only one of his immediate …
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The morning after
Apologies for the dearth of posting; democracy is a jealous mistress. A few quick thoughts and reactions: 1.The lackluster results reflects the lackluster campaign by lackluster parties. 2. Senator Jackie …
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