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June 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DISCRIMINATION: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – With another day of social media outrage and counter-outrage about Sarah Sanders being refused service at a restaurant in Virginia, I …

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Happiness / Life / Politics

June 4, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT HAVE I WRITTEN ABOUT EGYPT? – Nervously checking my old travel writing at the moment: A Lebanese tourist who posted a video on Facebook complaining of sexual harassment and …

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May 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

LOOK WHO’S CREEPY – As I mentioned this morning, an American court has ruled that Donald Trump blocking people on his Twitter violates their First Amendment rights. It is a …

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May 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNBLOCK – Fascinating court decision regarding the First Amendment: It is unconstitutional for public officials, including the president, to block Twitter followers who criticize them, a court ruled today in …

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April 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

BORDERS WITHOUT REPORTERS – Reporters Without Borders has just released its 2018 World Freedom Index, and the United States has slipped another few spots, down to number 45 in the …

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Happy Anzac Day from Catherine Deveny

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

With Yassmin Abdel-Maghied currently overseas, someone has to step in stir the ANZAC pot: Why do people in the armed forces use the word 'serve' to describe their work despite …

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April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

HOGGING THE SPOTLIGHT – Someone’s in their 16th minute of fame at the moment: After starting an advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham, gun-control activist David Hogg …

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You’ve got the right to remain silent

April 8, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As I have written before, in our developed Western liberal democracies it’s not the government and its instrumentalities that account for the bulk of efforts to restrict free speech and …

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March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREE SPEECH AND THE LEFT – A few days ago I wrote about a Scottish lad Mike Meechan, who’s been convicted by a Scottish court (a judge, no jury) of …

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Of Nazi pugs, gross offensiveness and double standards

March 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A few months ago, a friend sent me a link to a YouTube video, in which a Scottish lad decided to prank his girlfriend by secretly teaching her pet pug …

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In communism, the government rates you

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another reminder, if one is needed (the voice-over: one is, sadly, always needed) of the difference between the democratic and autocratic societies, the open and the closed ones, the individualistic …

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This ain’t an honour, it’s a circle jerk

March 19, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Some of my readers keep asking why I keep blogging about the adventures of Yassmin Abdel-Magied. After all, to keep talking about her merely gives her more oxygen and needlessly …

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March 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE – If the university-educated young people are our future, our future looks gloomy. From a recently released survey of 3,000 American …

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Salon: “Why is the Bible so badly written?”

February 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Salon publishes and unpublishes: Why is the Bible so badly written? https://t.co/lOJ9MGxNUP pic.twitter.com/4FdDnPw9AL — Salon (@Salon) February 8, 2018 Thank you for your feedback. We heard you. Upon further review, …

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All hate is equal (but some hate is more equal than others)

February 6, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In Western Australia, the police spring into action, News.com.au reports: Police are investigating those involved in an Australia Day party last week that gained attention after images emerged of attendees’ …

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Those Polish death camps

January 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Poland’s populist government is criminalising language and policing history: Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Friday that makes it a crime, punishable by up to three years in prison, to …

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Anti-FaComIS

January 7, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Yesterday, on my morning walk through my quiet and semi-leafy neighbourhood of Wooloowin, in the outer inner north of Brisbane, Australia, I was confronted by an unexpected sight. Overnight, someone …

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December 4, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MILO WITH PEPPER – I don’t care much for Milo, and never did, not having found him particularly funny or clever. The left hates him with a passion because he …

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November 23, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

IT MAKES TWO OF US, YASSMIN – I don’t watch “The Project”, or TV generally, for that matter, but fortunately News.com.au is here this morning to tell me that Yassmin …

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November 22, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNIVERSITIES GONE WILD – For all I know there might be a lot more to the story than the article reports, but as presented it’s pretty damning: Outspoken James Cook …

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