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18 chihuahuas or 14 cavoodles

December 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

So we have the long expected reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but they are bigger. They will most likely still employ …

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The Great Malaise continues

November 19, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …

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Politics

The Deep State and the Shallow State

November 18, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night (and woman’s, one might add). The same can be said about politics – …

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eattherich
Politics

Eat the Rich, Shit the Poor

November 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Socialism. Mathematics. Only one is a science. And never the twain shall meet. The old Soviet Union fan, Bernie Sanders, is raging all over social media about the billionaires. Other …

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I’m from the Deep State and I’m here to help

October 23, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s 2019, so it’s perhaps time to update Ronald Reagan’s famous dictum that “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to …

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Politics

PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls

October 14, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The 12 things to note about Sunday’s parliamentary election in Poland: 1. It’s status quo, with the populist/nationalist/conservative PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, or Law and Justice) government getting reelected. 2. …

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shithole1
Politics

Of shitholes – foreign and our own

July 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Donald Trump doesn’t mince words – in fact they’re usually like a very rare steak with blood still dripping as you slice through. Some months ago, “the controversy of the …

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Politics

The Weakly Chrenk

July 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Perhaps it has been a mistake to call one’s new website The Daily Chrenk, implying that a one-person blog (an increasing rarity these days) can provide enough quality – or …

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sex1ukraine
Love / Politics

Top 10 Sexiest Nations – and their sexiest politicians

July 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The question has now been settled – by a completely unscientific opinion poll, but nevertheless… The people of Ukraine have been named as the sexiest in the world, according to …

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The Woke versus the Poor

June 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

My favourite American urbanist and demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes how the quest for social justice so often harms the poor: Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good …

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Politics

Socialists see the light

June 4, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Well, a few of them. “The Guardian” reports on Mette Frederiksen, the 41-year old leader of the opposition Social Democrats in Denmark: A victory for Frederiksen would be a boon …

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Politics

Who’s Who at the EU Zoo

May 27, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

So the people of the European Union have voted – the 51 per cent of them, at least, which is a considerable reverse on the long term trend of a …

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notourgovernment
Politics

Not our government

May 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s pretty much a hard political law that when the right loses an election they tend to blame themselves (“it was the infighting – the bloody moderates/conservatives [delete as appropriate] …

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Politics

The autumn of our minor discontent: or 24 thoughts about the election

May 19, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

(Cover pic idea shamelessly stolen from Iowahawk, who captions it “Australian election summary”) 1. I was wrong about this election. I’m somewhat comforted by knowing that so was everyone else. …

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Politics

Bob was all our uncle

May 16, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is rather melancholy that Bob Hawke died only two days before most likely seeing his beloved Labor Party returning to power after six years in opposition. The consolation is …

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luckycountry
Politics

The Twice Lucky Country

April 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day I was having a coffee with an old friend, and we pondered, among many other, usually more cheerful topics, about the state of politics today. “Isn’t it …

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The price to pay for slavery

February 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Politics

$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting

February 13, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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Getting free money makes people happy

February 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

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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