Gals Against Humanity
As part of the usual spray directed at the conservative half of Australia, “refugee, racial justice, Palestine campaigner” Sarah Saleh observes about Tony Abbott His existence altogether is offensive. “There is a …
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Bombs away
This is certainly a strange story and hasn’t been made any clearer in the nearly 24 hours since. Firstly, on Monday morning a crude pipe bomb has been delivered to …
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Obama doesn’t heart Abbott
George W Bush was lucky – during his two terms in the White House he got to deal with one – and good one – Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. …
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“ISIS has lost 98 per cent of its territory”
The military defeat of ISIS is one of the great good news stories of 2017, something I blogged about before (“If ISIS falls in a desert, Obama is no longer …
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The Problem from Hell
Some 14 years ago, Samantha Power, the then Professor of Human Rights Practice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote a weighty and important tome, titled “A Problem from Hell”: …
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For all the prezes I loved before
The President is gone, long live the President. The past eight years is history – a bad history – and the next four or eight years is uncertainty – a …
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Grand New Party – how Trump is transforming Republicans
The 2016 presidential election result was bad news for the Democrats, not just because they lost against the supposedly most beatable Republican candidate, but just as worryingly because the loss …
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Happy Character Counts Week!
By virtue of the authority vested in his by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, President Barack Obama did hereby proclaim October 16 through October 22, 2016, …
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Forecast: cloudy with a chance of mushrooms
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, says that the American-Russian relations are at the worst point in more than 40 years, since around the time of the Arab-Israeli …
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While America slept (with itself, and then bragged about it)…
…Vladimir “Ras†Putin has been grabbing America by the p**** (see a rare photo above). He doesn’t need an open mic to talk about it either – actions speak louder than …
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The left bashes Trump for believing conspiracy theories perpetuated by the left
You don’t see me too often defending Donald Trump, but what’s fair is fair. The left keeps slamming Trump (rightly) for being a conspiracy monger, forgetting to mention that the …
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If hurricanes were named after politicians
August is the peak hurricane season over the Atlantic. As I’m writing these words, Weather.com reports that “Tropical Storm Earl Strengthens in the Caribbean; Hurricane Warnings Issuedâ€. What sort of …
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From Iran With Love, or Much Moolah for the Mullahs
“The Wall Street Journal†reports that President Obama paid $400 million to Tehran, in cash – “wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran …
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