Sisters of Mercy and the sisterhood of no mercy
For a tiny Albanian woman who devoted her life to ministering to the poor, Mother Teresa of Calcutta has proven to be a controversial new saint, though not so much …
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There is terrorism in Europe – should I turn around and come back home?
It’s just after 11pm and I’m sitting at the Cathay Pacific Lounge at the Hong Kong airport, waiting for my quarter-past-midnight flight to Amsterdam, and reflecting whether I should turn …
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Council cancels Australia Day fireworks, creates metaphorical fireworks
A Western Australian city council goes full Invasion Day: The council at Fremantle, about 30 minutes from Perth, decided on Wednesday night to cancel its annual fireworks display next year …
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Walls, amnesties, and an immigration policy that makes sense
So far at The Daily Chrenk I have avoided getting involved in the highly contentious and bitter immigration debate in the United States, which has now become the centre-piece of …
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Happy Ribbentrop-Molotov, mother******s!
Yesterday we remembered the 77th anniversary of the most cynical political event of the 20th century, the pact between Hitler and Stalin, which partitioned the Eastern Europe and greenlit the …
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The boy who cried fascism
By labelling every mainstream conservative extremist, bigoted, sexist, racist, homophobic, and probably a fascist, the left has devalued these descriptions to such an extent that it’s completely unprepared to face …
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London’s Khan Hunts Trolls While Crime Soars
(I don’t know what it is about the UK, London and its new Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan that just makes me write tabloid headlines – see also my earlier post …
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Gosford Anglicans vs Party for Freedom – a plague on both your houses
Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass at the Gosford Anglican Church. I wasn’t previously aware of …
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How To Lose Friends While Influencing People
Two stories, linked to next to each other on Drudge, recently caught my attention. The titles pretty much say it all: “He Likes Trump. She Doesn’t. Can This Marriage Be …
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How racist is your sausage?
The adult animated comedy “Sausage Party†has hit the cinemas (or theatres, depending on where you live) this week, and is drawing fire from the Social Justice Warrior squad for …
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Let’s criminalise blasphemy so we don’t have to kill the blasphemers
I might be verballing some of the people quoted in the BBC reporting, but not by much. On 24 March this year, Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah was brutally murdered in …
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Welcome to the 2024 Paris Olympics
Malia Obama: Good morning and welcome to CNN’s live coverage of the opening ceremony of the Games of the 23rd Olympiad. Lena Dunham: It’s good to be here with you, …
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The Daily Outrage – three outrages for the price of one
From “what offends you today?” and “what would you like to ban today?” files: Item 1: From the files of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: On January 8, 2014, Complainant …
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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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The Greens – lunatics all around the world
In our uncertain and chaotic world, it’s good to know that there are still some universal certainties. Such as that everywhere around the world the Greens are bunch of loons. …
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The zombie candidacy of Kevin Rudd
Just like the man himself, Kevin Rudd’s candidacy for the United Nations’ Secretary General position refuses to die and stay buried, as it deserves to, with a stake through the …
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Looking for love in all the wrong place, the Convention Edition
Forget the boring party Conventions with their overhyped and hyperventilated rhetoric and the ugly divisions between the Trump and Never Trump forces on the one hand and between Hillary and …
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Human Rights Watch categorises some terrorism as “Islam inspiredâ€, all hell breaks loose
Poor Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. All he wanted to do was to illustrate the fact that the current levels of terrorism in Europe are not …
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Lesbians lesbians lesbians
That got your attention, didn’t it? And for all the wrong reasons. “The Guardian†is arguing that we need a lesbian James Bond (instead of 007, a 006.9?). But just …
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Herstory made
Being just your average middle-class middle aged straight white male of right-wing persuasion I must be congenitally incapable of getting excited about various symbolic milestones being achieved in politics. That …
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