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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Ten signs the American political system is broken and we’re all going to hell
1)The Democrats have succeeded in stopping a Socialist who has never been a Democrat from becoming a Democrat presidential nominee. The Republicans have not succeeded in stopping a Democrat who …
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Ten commandments of the media coverage of terrorism, crime and violence
From the people (and by people I mean me) who brought you Ten Commandments of Social Justice Warriors, behold… You might enjoy this. Slightly topical.
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The feel-good story of the day in an otherwise dark dark world: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has taken the critical step of requesting Australian government support for his bid …
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Shooting range vs yoga
“Like the outdoors or going to the shooting range? So do a majority of conservatives interested in love. Liberals looking for love prefer museums, yoga and crying.†This is one …
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Let’s make all Black Lives Matter
I guess it’s probably just my white privilege talking, but I was never very interested and never wrote a lot about racism and racial issues. As a honkey, born and …
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Democrats – the parallel universe, in 5 easy headlines
There are the known unknowns and the unknown knowns, and then there is the Democratic Party reality.
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The grim cost of no war in Iraq
The left loves fighting wars – against wars. The release of the Chilcot report in Britain has given the anti-Iraq war left the new lease of life in re-fighting 2003. …
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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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Looking for love in all the wrong places
Chalk up another great victory for equality. As a result of a settlement flowing from a class action brought by two gay plaintiffs, a number of Christian internet dating sites …
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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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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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