Your Holiness, you’re wrong about terrorism
With the greatest of respect… “I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome on Sunday …
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…and no 72 virgins for you, loser
The local Muslim community refuses to bury the Normandy priest-killer Adel Karmiche: Speaking to Le Parisien, Mohammed Karabila, president of the local Muslim cultural association and imam of one of …
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#AmericaWasNeverGreat isn’t that great
Nothing perhaps gives me shits more in politics than the smarmy and self-satisfied self-loathing of the Western lefties. The “My country, always wrong†attitude is not only self-indulgent and morally …
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Happy birthday America, and please pick up your act
Today, the United States of America is celebrating the 240th anniversary of the original Brexit. Despite some initial reasonable showing from the Remain campaign, the Leave folk did eventually manage …
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Elie Wiesel
While we were busy electioneering in Australia, Elie Wiesel passed away in New York at the age of 87. A Romanian Jew, he was the only one of his immediate …
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Campaigning with communists
Thank you, Huffington Post Australia, for publishing a lovely fluff piece about “a day on the campaign trail†with Australia’s most disgusting politician, the Greens’ NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon. As …
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Democracy and its discontents
In Winston Churchill’s famous formulation, democracy is the worst system of government, except for all the others. Not that we haven’t tried throughout history: monarchy, oligarchy, autocracy, theocracy, even the …
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Happy Barbarossa
Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, as it then was, was invaded by German hipsters. Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union, could start pretending the Second World War …
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Chrenxit redux
Two days from now, Great Britain will decide whether it wants in or out. Listening to the Remain supporters one gets the impression that should Brexit get up, Britain will …
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Happy 29th birthday, “Tear down this Wall!â€
Twenty-nine years ago today – when America had a real president and the Free World a real leader: As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment …
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Who’s on first?
Everyone’s making history these days. Come November, America might have the first female President, hard on the heels of the first African-American President. The US certainly has the first female …
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Religion of peace vs. religion of sensitivity
File it under “Colour me completely astonishedâ€: The vast majority of Australian Defence Force personnel believes the Muslim religion promotes Âviolence and terrorism, despite “cultural sensitivity training†by the ADF …
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Ballots and bullets: Poland and China, 27 years on
On June 4, 1989, two communist countries on opposite sides of the world chose different paths to the future. In Poland, the first round of democratic parliamentary elections was held, …
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On first dates and communist restaurants
A first date tonight. She likes Vietnamese. Not too many options in Brisbane inner north. Her: “What’s that Vietnamese place that was named after some dictator that attracted all the …
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Europe should have really just stuck to being a common market. Don’t take me wrong, I do understand and have some sympathy with the Pan-European sentiment of the founding fathers …
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The attack of 1000ft blockbuster atrocities
I woke up this morning to the number one celebrity story in the news being Kate Beckinsale recounting how the director Michael Bay was an ass to her during and …
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Hey Trump supporters, hands off Ronnie!
I have been born in a wrong place at a wrong time, and on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, so I can’t paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s immortal “oh snap†…
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Dear Japan, sorry, not sorry
President Obama visited Hiroshima the other day, and to his credit he didn’t apologise for dropping the bomb. He didn’t drop the bomb himself, of course. That was President Truman, …
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Exodus: Gods, kings and Scotts
Hollywood doesn’t do Bible well. Hollywood doesn’t do religion well in general. Hollywood doesn’t do well anything that’s out of its comfort zone – patriotism, conservatism, family values. You would …
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Walking the Bloody Nose Ridge
They were hoping to take the island in four days. After all, there was not much to take, just an expanse of bleached coral, some 10 km long and 1.5 …
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