Australian reporters assigned to cover the United States pack their leanings -- Left ones, of course -- with their socks when they jet off to relay the action in Washington. Either that or they are bone lazy. There is a ripper scandal unfolding on Capitol Hill but explaining it in full has been too much trouble

The last time Arabs ruled eastern Jerusalem and the Old City all but one of the Jewish Quarter’s 35 synagogues was demolished. Trump's pledge to recognise the city as the capital of Israel will go a long way towards preventing history from repeating itself

Politicians and media outlets have forfeited any semblance of trustworthiness in their manic efforts to bring down President Trump. Consider, for example, how Mrs Clinton's supporters demanded the FBI chief be fired only to immediately reverse themselves when news of his dismissal broke

Swapping leftist absurdities over coffee is every fashionable nitwit's democratic right, and fair enough too. What isn't fair is that taxpayers must underwrite Geraldine Doogue's faux profundities, not to mention those of her latest Saturday Extra guest

A petty, vainglorious and failed president has made a scorched-earth policy his exit strategy, sowing his successor's path with last-minute executive edicts. No surprise, really. Slipping away from the messes he creates has been the Obama style for eight disastrous years

Would a mainstream politician have dared raise the affiliations, sympathies, ethnic heritage and political patrons of the judge hearing his case? Never, not in a million years. But the outsider candidate detested by his own party's establishment is no normal politician. Nor is he a racist

The US primaries system is confusing, convoluted and apt to confound those who like their democracy short, sharp and certain. Yet for all it's flaws and eccentricities, there is much to inspire jealousy in an Australian observer -- especially if that spectator happens to vote Liberal and reside in North Sydney

You've heard the lie so often it has become a faux truth, one told and broadcast with such spite and frequency its propagators must be relieved they need offer only the headline shorthand 'Trump is Putin's stooge'. Yet the target of such enmity keeps winning. Like him or not as a man, we had all better hope that doesn't change

The US media's arrogance has once again blinded it to the genius of Donald Trump, whose denunciation of gridiron players 'taking a knee' has set the commentariat to another fit of frothing. How out of touch must the pundits be to back myths and spoiled millionaires above patriotism and good manners?

Assad, Putin, Iran, North Korea -- what they have had in common is the West's perception that all are madmen who will stop at nothing if pushed beyond the limits of their tolerance. Donald Trump's recent barrage of Tomahawk missiles has now called that long-successful bluff

Chaos reigns in the White House, according to the mainstream press. Well, it may be that the new administration isn’t yet a 'fine-tuned machine', but it is getting runs on the board nevertheless. That explains why journalists are doing what they do best -- peddling misrepresentations and outright lies

Have you noticed how elections that produce results counter to the Left's wishes --  Trump and Brexit, to name but two examples -- are sneeringly dismissed as manifestations of the hoi polloi's ignorance, stupidity and bigotry? Those progressives, they don't like democracy

The first and most important thing to grasp about the expression of political views and sympathies is that they must not aggravate or annoy anyone on the left. Break that rule, as do Donald Trump supporters by attending his rallies, and you will only have yourself to blame for the bruising consequences

He is a vulgarian, a brawler, an egomaniac and, to the consternation of Republican Party's sclerotic establishment, he won't play by the rules. Well, nobody's perfect, and what he gets right -- borders, Islam, US exceptionalism -- have made me a convert. Go get 'em, Mr Trump

President Trump had best be careful what he wishes for. Some of those Nordic types he reportedly opined would make better immigrants to the US are quite likely to bring with them a leftist culture every bit as problematic as the mores of the lavatorial hell holes he derided

The ABC is tickled pink about the enormous splash its Canberra editor made on social media with a fact-free, opinion-heavy diatribe against Donald Trump and his administration. It seems the national broadcaster's yardstick for excellence is the number of visitors it gets from Twitter's sewer

Donald Trump has delivered bombs to the West enemies. Obama shipped pallets of cold, hard cash to Iran in a ransom deal that will do nothing to crimp the mullahs' mischief while further heightening Israel's jeopardy. Guess which president the media paints as the wise and heroic leader?

Trump's alleged kinky escapade in a Moscow hotel never passed the sniff test, despite the whiff of uric acid his detractors claimed to discern in that improbable briefing paper. Nevertheless, in emptying a chamber pot of suspicion on the incoming president, it served its purpose

This US election is not about who has lived the most blameless life. It is about who can best protect our collective interests. Trump is a vulgarian, no doubt about it, but of the two presidential contenders he is the only one who grasps that the West is in peril

A Trump administration may well see needed reforms left undone and unneeded populist measures promoted. As this most unlikely of candidates draws closer to the GOP's nomination, one thing is certain: Whatever the mogul's flaws, and they are many, he is less dangerous than Hillary