Celebrity strikes? Yes please!
Twenty-twenty is providing a much needed reminder of the absolute importance of essential workers and first responders. In times like these, it’s quite courageous for celebrities of all kinds to keep …
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Not Killing And Getting Killed For Dummies
I’m not an expert, but this seems commonsense to me in these increasingly fraught times: 1. If you own a firearm, be a responsible gun owner; learn how to handle …
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160 years on, Democrats still think they own blacks
Cheap shot? Sorry, I usually prefer expensive ones too, but that’s all I have tonight with #UncleToms trending on Twitter and Jake Tapper complaining on CNN that the first night …
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Trump’s agenda – a little bit nationalistic, a little bit fantastic
Donald Trump has released the agenda for his second term: A few random thoughts in response: 1) The biggest missing piece – as it has been from Trump’s agenda over …
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The most important thing you will read this year
As somebody who has experienced “not the real socialism”(TM) for the first fifteen years of my life, I seriously never expected that a few decades on I would have to …
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Hammered and sickled
Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon associated with communism on the wall of an ACT …
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Wired left, right and centre
An interesting neurological study indicates that partisans and non-partisans – or perhaps the ideological and non-ideological folk – are two different species. OK, not quite, but they do think differently: …
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When Poland saved Europe
A hundred years ago this week, a series of biggest battles that Europe were to witness between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the beginning of …
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Llamageddon for Coronavirus?
Llamas are known as cute but highly temperamental – they spit, up to 10 feet – but now one South American expat in the UK called Fifi might be the …
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