(h/t newcatallaxy.blog)  

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In The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf gazes across the Pacific and sees a nation not of bronzed and independent yeoman but of bullied and submissive sheep: Australia is undoubtedly a democracy, with multiple political parties, regular elections, and the peaceful transfer of power. But if a country indefinitely forbids its own citizens from leaving its borders, […]

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These months of lockdowns and  heavy-handed, door-busting policing, the suicides and mental problems said to be increasingly prevalent amongst stuck-at-home children and teens, and, of course, the financial ruin visited upon small businesses and the laid-off– well, what if all of it could  have been avoided? What if there was a cheap, effective, off-patent medication […]

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Are reporters particularly susceptible to the side effects of the COVID vaccines, or is it a mere coincidence that, of the unknown number of journalists have been Pfizer-jabbed, two have found themselves in hospital with pericarditis, otherwise known as inflammation of the heart?  The first was the Daily Telegraph‘s Georgia Clark, the latest Brisbane-based Channel […]

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Writing in Commentary, Noah Rothman charts the short path to the Biden Administration’s next opportunity to exercise its incompetence: America has been held hostage before. In 1976, TWA Flight 355 was taken over by Croatian nationalists, and a New York City police officer lost his life in an effort to resolve it. The 1985 hijacking […]

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The top comment below Phillip Altman’s open letter demanding an explanation for the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) scorning of ivermectin for use against COVID-19 comes from Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy, who writes … As one of the senior clinical immunologists in Australia, and the only one whose research has focussed on mucosal immunology and host-parasite […]

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Here’s how Steve Waterson ends his column in today’s Weekend Australian: …So here we are, worse off than when all the hysteria began, a risible counterweight to the return to normality spreading all over the world, slumped into a manufactured psychosis. Australians are being deliberately and methodically terrified, while enforced isolation weakens our resilience. It […]

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National Review ‘s Jim Geraghty, surveying the debacle of the US retreat from Afghanistan, sums it up in six short words: Something is wrong with the President The transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos dropped, and the president’s incoherence, insistence that he was incorrectly briefed, denial that he was warned […]

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Don Surber, one of the more acerbic US commentators and bloggers, reacts to the argument that the 20-year war in Afghanistan wasn’t entirely ill-advised: The Taliban come back to power better armed, better equipped, and more feared than when we booted them out in 2001. They were out of power for 20 years? Mao was […]

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Cooped up in quarantine, contributor Marc Hendrickx put on his actuary’s hat to consider Australia’s on-again/off-again lockdowns and their cost. He writes: If we use Sweden, a country that instituted minimal restrictions in response to the pandemic as a base line, then on a population basis, if Australia had instituted similar measures (and made similar […]

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