2000 – a few early take-aways
1. Democrats, buoyed by the media and the public research industry support chorus, were expecting a Blue Wave. A lot of Republicans, buoyed by the enthusiasm of the base as …
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“We all end up in the same place”
That’s what the presumptive Democrat President Kamala Harris wants for all of us (well, the Americans at least): There’s a big difference between equality and equity. pic.twitter.com/n3XfQyjLNe — Kamala Harris …
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Travel to America: even if you could, you shouldn’t
Two hundred years on, Australia is once again a prison island, except that this time it’s even hard to get in. For the outward travel, there is a general ban …
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Selling the rope to hang them
Legal Insurrection reports from the frontiers of Market Marxism: It’s no secret that the Black Lives Matter movement and its co-founder (and self-identified “Marxist”) Patrisse Cullors has long accused American …
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Any monument will do
When you’re raging for a political cause, anything will do as a target for your righteous rage. In the United States, all sorts of innocuous political and religious monuments have …
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Chelsea Handler’s intellectual slave-owning
Exactly two months ago (and not for the first time, either), I wrote about the left’s attitude to minorities, namely their claim on the exclusive ideological allegiance by women, people …
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Against the Great Satan
Back in 1996, I and three friends had the privilege (having handsomely won the election) of editing the University of Queensland student newspaper “Semper Floreat”. The Latin name means “always …
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The modern left’s dissident envy
When freedom and democracy are restored to the United States: In case you are unfamiliar with the term, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was instituted in the post-apartheid South Africa …
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Much Ado About Gadot
Israeli actress Gal “Wonder Woman” Gadot has been cast in a new movie to play Queen Cleopatra, so predictably, lots of people who know nothing about history are upset. Former …
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A skirt, too short on memory
Sarah Iannarone is likely to be elected the next mayor of Portland on November 3. The incumbent, Democrat Ted Wheeler, is trailing 29 to Iannarone’s 40 per cent in the …
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Don’t ban death wishes
Twitter swings wildly and widely in their editorial policies: The four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as “The Squad” expressed surprise on Friday night when Twitter posted about its policy against wishing harm …
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The sick and the deranged
Here’s how to behave when something bad happens to somebody you don’t like and/or oppose: Here’s how not to: Most of these blue checkmarks are “celebrities” that no one has …
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Mass debating in public
I’m still having a PTSD episode after watching the entire 90 minutes (or was it 900 minutes?) of the badly misnamed “debate” between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, so you …
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Once, twice, three times a nominee
Over the past few weeks, Donald Trump has been nominated twice for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize: the first time, by a Norwegian “far right” politician, for his role in bringing …
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Free Tibet (Labour)
Whatever happened to “Free Tibet”? With its heyday probably twenty years ago, it used to be a major cause celebre for artists and activists, with bumper stickers adorning countless cars, including – …
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No shots, thanks, we’re Americans
“I would advise you not to take the Russian or the Chinese vaccines,” my GP told me the other day, “I suspect there might have been some shortcuts taken in both …
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Unholy wood: how to deal with catastrophic wildfires
First Australia, in the first months of the year, now the western parts of the United States. Australian wildfires ravaged the forested area equal in size to the state of …
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China does as China is
Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians and journalists — have had their data collected by a company with links to Chinese military …
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Killing them not so softly
The left eventually poisons everything it touches. It might take a while until their presence in a particular field reaches the critical mass sufficient to affect the trajectory but they will …
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The Mystery of African COVID
“New York Post” sets up the mystery: The novel coronavirus has infected more than 26.35 million people, with just four countries accounting for over 15 million cases. They are America, Brazil, …
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