*Warning: language (not my own (and some mine)) and disturbing content* Apologies for the blog silence over the past four days; I was enjoying a road trip through Tasmania, with …
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You’ll never guess who’s supporting Donald Trump. Yes, this is shameless clickbait, but at least – partly because my blog does not support this function – I won’t infuriate you …
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A few days ago, a 53-year-old resident of an affluent Rhode Island town (but I’m repeating myself) of Barrington, Alan Sorrentino, wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his local newspaper (circulation …
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If your parents or grandparents were members of the Silent Generation, defined by the Great Depression experience, or the Greatest Generation, similarly shaped by the world war, or even the …
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According to Bloomberg – that’s the news network, not the ex-NYC mayor who must now be regretting he didn’t put his hat in the presidential ring as an independent – …
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The brain-wave at Turtle Bay: The United Nations has named comic-book superhero Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador to fight for gender equality, amid criticism that the scantily clad fictional …
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The left’s well attested to (by the left) compassion for refugees often ends up not being very compassionate at all. For example, many of the children that Great Britain takes …
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There is a great generalisation – by the left – that the left, being a movement long associated with the “common peopleâ€, are the great friends of the working men …
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I was a bit too big in the early 1990s so I must have missed the three seasons of this cartoon series, originally called “Captain Planet and the Planeteersâ€, in …
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One third of the Millennials think that George W Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin. Over a third have a favourable impression of Karl Marx and Che Guevara. But …
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So “Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has released a shocking, expletive-laden video of a union official’s threatening behaviour on a Queensland construction site.” A “shocking, expletive-laden video” of a CFMEU official? …
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By virtue of the authority vested in his by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, President Barack Obama did hereby proclaim October 16 through October 22, 2016, …
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While it’s perhaps unfair to compare British apples with Swedish oranges, it’s interesting to note that while in the United Kingdom waving a banner with a slogan “F*** ISISâ€, and …
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Politics, like nature only more so, abhors a vacuum. Liberal Party created vacuum, One Nation is now filling it. With a caveat that one should not get overexcited by one …
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Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, says that the American-Russian relations are at the worst point in more than 40 years, since around the time of the Arab-Israeli …
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Free speech is under assault everywhere around the world. In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five, has been under the death sentence for the past six years for blasphemy – …
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A mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s “UK Diary†column in this week’s “Spectatorâ€, in which The Once And The Future Prime …
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…today comes from Germany, where a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a Brussels Airport-style attack in Berlin has been captured and handed over to the authorities by three other Syrian …
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According to French historian Philippe Aries in his 1960 classic “Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Lifeâ€, childhood was invented by Renaissance Europeans*. The mid-20th century Americans in …
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According to Buzzf… I mean News.com.au – sorry, for some reason I often make that mistake lately – “The Project†host Waleed Aly has been nailing it so much, he …
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