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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Of roots in brothels and dreadful campaigns
Earlier today I set up two A-frames on the side of a busy local road and campaigned for my old mate Trevor Evans, if standing next to two A-frames on …
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See Nige rip
Nigel Farage is not particularly my kind of a guy, but I will give him this – he is the most epic parliamentary troll in the world today. Check out …
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Shock new EU memo, or why the EU still doesn’t get it
The European Union says they get it. Then they show they don’t. This is pretty much the only conclusion I can draw from reading a leaked copy of the post-Brexit …
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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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Eat the old (updated)
No issue recently has split the generations more – and more acrimoniously – than Brexit. Whether 66 per cent of young Brits voted to “Remainâ€, as polling suggested, or maybe …
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It’s the end of the world as we know it. I’m fine, you?
A few very brief thoughts about Brexit, in no particular order: 1) This could be the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom. The “Celtic fringeâ€, certainly Scotland and …
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The Daily Outrage
You know what, Labor? Screw you. Here I was complaining on Facebook earlier that I can’t seem to get outraged by anything today. Then I went shopping and on 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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Real tradies, and the really real tradies
So the Liberal Party put up a tradie ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fse0sm05V-8 The ad was mercilessly ridiculed on the social media, in part because the tradie was supposedly a fake tradie. Though he …
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Who are the mass shooters?
After every mass shooting and/or terrorist attack there comes the inevitable finger-pointing, blame-shifting, point-scoring and politicising. Understandably, no one wants to get tarred by association, however vague and tenuous, with …
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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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The moral idiocy of moral equivalence, or why I loathe self-loathing
I love the Gosford Anglican Church. It’s the church I would be attending if I wasn’t interested in the actual religion but my favourite pieties were political. Which is why …
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