The world to end; Millennials hardest hit
If Millennials strike many of their elders as rather feckless perpetual adolescents who live in the present and don’t think of the future, it might be because they actually think …
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Dems: Even distress is fake
Donald Trump’s election was a shock to many people. And it was a shock that continued to reverberate long after November 2016, with breathless media reports of mass despondency among …
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Less than half crazy
The numbers in the low 40s pops up in two stories today: Americans today are more closely divided than they were earlier in the last century when asked whether some …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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Who’s afraid of big bad socialism?
Not “The New York Times”, which regularly keeps running pieces like this: Hart clearly hasn’t traveled much (he finds the fly-over country traumatic enough: “To be trapped in the boarding …
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AOC OMG LOL
Because it’s the night before Easter and I don’t feel like writing about anything serious, have a look at this 8-year old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AKA Alexandria Occasional-Cortex, AKA She Guevara, …
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The Collusion Delusion
I’ve always remained sceptical of the claims of conspiracies between Trump and Putin. It’s not because I’m a fan of Trump’s (and definitely not Putin’s). And it’s certainly not because …
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Let them eat illegals
Should all the caught illegal migrants be sent to the self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities”? There is a lot of both mirth and outrage in the United States at President Trump’s latest suggestion: …
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Getting Hitler wrong
The Twitter hills are alive with the sound of the Congressional hearing exchange between Democrat Rep Ted Lieu, whom I find generally insufferable, and Candace Owens, the black conservative activist, …
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Are immigrants animals?
Of course not, but this has not stopped some in the social media and the mainstream media from twice in a space of a single year disingenuously misquoting the same …
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Was Polish American revolutionary hero a heroine?
Pulaski Day, when the Polish-American community celebrates their Polish-Americaness annually and named after a Polish general who had died at Savannah in 1779, might have to be soon renamed Pulaska …
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Sully versus Hollywood
Act 1 The scene: “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is a new annual event that aims to connect writers and content creators with activists, non-profits and thinkers with ties to …
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Talking Turkey
“The Washington Post” thinks that “democracy dies in darkness”, but in Turkey it has been under a slow and steady assault by the ruling party in broad daylight for the …
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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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Red stars in their eyes
Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at an event to which tickets cost between US$1325 and $1650: …
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Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the least tolerant of them all?
A fascinating map and a fascinated study published in “The Atlantic” magazine. You can always quibble with the methodology, but for what it’s worth: We might expect some groups to …
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Cortez versus Xochitl: Democrats party like it’s 1519 again
As the Republican Party becomes ever more Trump, the Democrats continue their steady march towards socialism: House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. …
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Red on Red over Venezuela
“It’s not real socialism” is happening right now in once the wealthiest country in Latin America: Maduro’s supporters halted and set ablaze two trucks loaded with aid driven through barricades …
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The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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Weimar without Nazis
Repeat after me: America today is not like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans are not Nazis. Trump is not Hitler. To say, as so many otherwise seemingly intelligent and …
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