Believe his admirers and Obama is “the smartest president ever” – so smart he skipped his intelligence briefings in the days leading up to the current of embassy attacks. That's a worry

The Treasurer likes to crow about creating almost 800,000 new jobs. Not so, even by his own favoured yardstick

There were more than a few curiosities about Julia Gillard’s marathon attempt to put the AWU scandal to rest, not least that memory failed her when mere obfuscation was not enough

Documentary evidence. Bob Brown calls home.

According to José Manuel Barroso, it’s Götterdämmerung all over again. A Eurozone meltdown will send the continent into a 1930s depression, with all the historical imputations of rampant nationalism run amok.

There is not a little indecent irony in a debt-addicted Labor government, propelled there by panicked, wasteful spending and ideological predisposition itself attempting to strike the pose of fiscal rectitude and beneficence against European and Hellenic fiscal dysfunction.

What do Lehman Brothers and the Treasurer Wayne Swan have in common? Both of them have won a magazine award for financial management and neither saw the GFC coming. 

Pollietoons on the Franco-US scandal.

QED EXCLUSIVE Leaked photograph from the Obama Situation Room in the White House at the moment SEALs were terminating OBL.