Reputable scientists start afresh when their theories clash with experience. Not the climate careerists preaching planetary doom, who have just released yet another fires-and-floods prophecy. This lot adhere to Groucho’s maxim: when predictions don’t work out, they have others
If you wish to live in a risk-free society, it is only logical to assume you will be increasingly reluctant to take risks. The Victorians were wiser. They knew your children will inherit a world in which the risks are far greater than those posed by, say, an e-cigarette
Ever-polite Stan Grant tried his very best to keep Christiana Figueres drifting off in a cloud of sob-sister vapours to Warmist Land, where only the transfer of vast wealth from the West to Third World kleptocrats can foil global warming. Yes, Stan gave it his best shot, but he never had a chance
It behooves us to honour the codifiers of conservative core values. Among that pantheon of great thinkers, Kirk's prodigious output warrants both reflection and genuflection -- not least right now in Australia, where what passes for conservativism could use a refresher course in fundamental principles
It is not the jaw-dropping murder rate or endemic corruption which marks every aspect of public life and office in the South America nation, for they are but symptoms of the greater affliction: decade upon decade of left-wing government. Reformer Jair Bolsonaro aims to change that
It has been all too easy for politicians to proclaim an urgent mission to protect gay and transgender students and teachers by demanding laws that specifically permit such discrimination be immediately repealed. Trouble is, good intentions can be treacherous when pursued without reflection
The new PM can drink a beer without any apparent discomfort at finding himself surrounded by garden-variety Australians, which I suppose is a plus.But on Paris, submarines, free speech, reforming universities and winning back the base he's no better than Turnbull-lite
A Florida woman took a huge loss rather than sell her home to a Trump supporter, yet one more indication how deep the lunacy has spread. After Obama, when the Left thought it had won once and for all, bitter disappointment has spawned a sweeping, often violent and ominous hysteria
It is past time to bluntly confront leftist thought at every opportunity. Did being polite save Brett Kavanaugh from slanders that will adhere for the rest of his days? Reserve and good manners are the conservative way, but they are of no use when the enemy's motto is 'by any means necessary'
Sins of political commission (alienating the base, for starters) and omission (standing for nothing other than ruinous energy prices) sealed the former PM's political fate. But there was an element of bad luck as well. Rather than Sydney, he should have been born in Manhattan, island of the main-chancers
The furious, unhinged and ongoing reaction to Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat reveals the extent to which leftist poison has penetrated not just Washington but the whole Western political class. Trump's task is to lance the abscess while there are healthy parts remaining
Victims of crime live with the consequences of those attacks long after perpetrators have done their time and been released, more often than not to re-offend. Taxpayers also suffer, as the public purse must cover the steep cost of incarceration. Why not oblige offenders to make whole all those they harm?
Until the Constitution is changed or the High Court changes its collective mind, all federal parliamentary candidates need to think carefully about Section 44 -- and that includes independent Wentworth contender Kerryn Phelps
Modern elites are tyrants of tolerance, saying: 'You must heed what I say, then either praise my virtue or shut up. If you try to say you disagree and why, you deserve to be, and you will be, hounded out of all decent society.' Thus do they pay lip-service, but only lip-service, to freedom of religion
Variously hailed as literary hero or scorned as a verbose hack, I'll leave the merit of his books for others to debate. What I know of the man, rather than the writer, I learned firsthand when he visited the WA of my youth and carried on as egomaniacal ratbags are wont to do
James Cook University will most likely continue to sweep allegations of shoddy research under the carpet, seemingly oblivious that its reputation for serious, credible scientific inquiry is going into the dustpan at the same time. The Governing Council not only should intervene, it must
When Peter Minter banned Quadrant's poets from his magazine's pages on the grounds that they had published in what he likened to a Nazi journal, the curious might have wondered just what sort of verse he actually favours. Here's a hint
Readers can form their own judgement as to whether this first-person account would count in Andrew Bolt’s challenge to Robert Manne to “name ten” Aborigines stolen purely for racial reasons
PM Stephen Harper has three election victories under his belt and, from a conservative point of view, not much to show for them. Being nice to political enemies is all very well and good, but it leaves your supporters less than impressed
If "Indigenous culture" is to be recognised in Australia's Constitution it is vital to understand what the term means. Rap songs and break dancing, perhaps?
The prohibition enthusiasts of our age dislike just about everything invented after the Industrial Revolution -- though not Twitter and mobile phones, without which they could not run their campaigns to inflict cost and inconvenience on those less ostentatiously virtuous than themselves
When writer Sarah Jeong was hired by the New York Times and her history of ugly tweets about 'dumbass f-ing white people' came to light, the paper's exquisitely PC editors defended their Asian hire against her pallid critics. The melanin-challenged, you see, had it coming
Tell me I'm never happy, accuse me of delight at hearing the door slam behind Malcolm Turnbull only to whine about what, in my estimation, is the lacklustre Cabinet assembled by his successor. And call me a dreamer as well, because this is the all-star front bench that occupies my reveries
The PM has finally said what so many before him should have said: the IPCC's catastropharian jamborees are 'nonsense' underserving of any more taxpayers' dollars. Terrific! Now all Mr Morrison has to do is find the spine to actually walk away from the computer-modelled ratbaggery of Paris
People happy in their home life don’t beat each other up. Nor do most men need to be told to respect women. You have only to look around you to see that even after years of feminist abuse and contempt, gallantry is still on offer, for those normal, un-angry women who are prepared to accept it
They Marched in March -- the usual suspects in all their serried shades of anger and incoherence -- because, well, it would have made even less sense to bemoan the fact that Tony Abbott and the Coalition won an election last September by April-ing in April. Zeg is fearful of such antics' impact on the easily impressed.
At the University of Wollongong there is so much diversity to honour, especially when Christians are demanding all the attention with their mangers and tinsel, that staff have been sent a chirpy reminder that Christmas is about much more than the Messiah
Climate change is torching Australia, according to the likes of Tim Flannery and his fellow warmists at the Bureau of Meteorology. If only the money now spent on computer projections and big-ticket fire fighting gear could go toward fuel reduction
A New Zealand court has rejected the argument that one can claim asylum from the alleged ravages of climate change. For the plaintiff, it is back to teeming Kiribati, where the real problem is a booming population
A cash-strapped America no longer has the resources to continue as the world’s policeman, as its craven capitulation to Tehran makes clear. For Australia the message is chilling
Lee Atwater.
This month saw the 30th anniversary of an event that passed in Australia entirely …
They must teach it in journalism schools as a simple, all-purpose standby when you don't feel like reporting something inconvenient -- you know, like the reason power prices are so high or the way in which flood-level immigration artificially inflates GDP. When conflicterd about covering a real story the solution is simple: just beat up another compote of slurs about Nauru being Australia's "concentration camp". You'll feel very good about yourself after, or so aspiring journalists must surely be told.
Zeg, for one, isn't impressed. For his latest cartoon follow this link or the one below.
At National Review, Victor David Hanson writes:
... dozens of the careerists and progressive appointees at the Washington FBI, DOJ, CIA, and National Security Council took all sorts of risks to insure a Clinton blowout. They variously sought to warp the FISA court, subvert the Trump campaign, collude with Fusion GPS and its Russian sources, and weaponize the FBI to ensure the Clinton victory — on the premise that their unethical and often illegal behavior would soon be rewarded by the Clintons, who for decades had proven far less ethical than 2016’s miscreant minions.
Hillary’s defeat caused unimaginable shock. It almost immediately prompted a collective psychological meltdown. The tragedy was not just that an inept Clinton had squandered the gifts of a $1 billion war chest, the deep-state collusion of the Obama administration, and a completely captive and obsequious media. But she had lost to Trump, the reality-TV-show host, the controversial raconteur, the first serious presidential candidate with neither military nor political experience.
Worse still, Clinton had blown a huge lead by foolishly seeking an electoral mandate while Trump, the supposed dunce, outsmarted her analytics and young techies by battering down the blue wall and stealing her Democratic Midwest with a populist nationalist message, part JFK, part Ronald Reagan.
Nothing is more humiliating than to be already doling out White House patronage jobs on Election Day at noon, and by evening suffering a shipwrecked candidacy ...
Hanson's essay can be read in full via this link or the one below
What does it take to be a successful writer in Australia? Alan Gould draws on …
Essays by Tony Abbott, James Allan, Chris Berg, Ian Callinan, Sinclair Davidson and more.
