Cardinal Sin and twelve angry men*
A few thoughts about the Cardinal George Pell verdict a few days back: 1. Child sexual abuse is a heinous crime, no ifs and no buts. So is mental and …
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Cortez versus Xochitl: Democrats party like it’s 1519 again
As the Republican Party becomes ever more Trump, the Democrats continue their steady march towards socialism: House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. …
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You win some, you lose some
The pre-election exodus continues, mostly from the Liberal side of politics, as senior and not so senior MPs decide that spending three, six or nine years on opposition benches just …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 4: The Euro Edition
It’s been a while since the last installment, so here’s more old wisdom for TDC readers; this time all from the Old World since there seems to be a quite …
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Red on Red over Venezuela
“It’s not real socialism” is happening right now in once the wealthiest country in Latin America: Maduro’s supporters halted and set ablaze two trucks loaded with aid driven through barricades …
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The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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Weimar without Nazis
Repeat after me: America today is not like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans are not Nazis. Trump is not Hitler. To say, as so many otherwise seemingly intelligent and …
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Worst homophobe ever
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay “Empire” sort-of-a -star, Donald Trump now goes and does this: …
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ISIS MILFs want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a noose or a bullet if they had the misfortune to …
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Journalist commits career suicide by stating the obvious
CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his podcast (a monster at 3 hours and 40 minutes) and in the …
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Socialism as a Millennial religion
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed that history repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, …
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Boys Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part IV: Special Valentine’s Edition
This morning we’ve had the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild, so for the sake of equality of the (two) sexes I cannot but now present some eye candy for …
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Girls Gone Wild on Brisbane Tinder, Part XIII: Special Valentine’s Edition
You have all been very good regular readers of TDC recently, absorbing a lot of outrage, ridicule and cynicism emanating from these pages under the guise of impassioned political and …
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$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting
No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends? The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …
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Farewell to Carbs
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …
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Chrenk Youth
As the Millennials the world over seem to be going ga-ga for socialism, there is one country that’s bucking the trend: In Poland, the young generation’s shift to the right …
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Getting free money makes people happy
Hot on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, which includes a call for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (or included, since AOC is now …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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So much for that right-wing propagandist Murdoch
One major disservice that the mainstream media does through its political bias and negativity is that it neither prepares its audience for or explains to it events and trends that …
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Lending a pinching hand
This guy will be very happy today: So will Julie Bishop. With a big emphasis on disability and 50 skin shades of same or different sex multiracial couples holding hands, …
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