History warriors wedded to political schemes cannot be good historians because they cannot allow themselves to be open to the ambiguous and elusive qualities of human beings.  For political purposes all they want to see are the massacres and the brutality.

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Members of parliament caught attending strip-joints in foreign cities can argue that magnetic field deviations caused them confusion.

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Everything you need to know about conservatism, but are too afraid to ask. 

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"However politically propitious the economic circumstances late next year might seem to be for the Coalition parties, they have little hope of winning office under their present leadership."

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HERE:  Chinese was on the menu in both Canberra and Washington this week. It was Duck Peking (as best you can), as Kevin Rudd and Joel Fitzgibbon tried to avoid being named Dim Sim of the Year. The Great Fire Wall protecting Rudd’s secret meeting with Minister of Propaganda from China, took a hit. Confucius […]

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Bill Hyde published On Burchett by Tibor Méray. He has now written an account of the reaction to the book. 

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HERE:  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that “Wayne Swan’s hair will be getting greyer and greyer and greyer as we prepare the budget.” He didn’t say anything about his own hair, but said the economy was receding. Barnaby Joyce predicted a hung parliament as Anna Bligh cleaned up in the Queensland election but her opponent Laurence […]

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HERE:  Billions of dollars went zooming into bank accounts last week as part of Kevin Rudd’s stimulus package. The Weekend Australian reported that a large number of recipients were actually dead. Centrelink, who manages the cash-splash-bank-account had about 1.5 million dead people on its books and 27,000 who had never been born. According to the […]

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Just how dishonest, ignorant, self-obsessed, and delusional can the Australian left get? Consider some of its latest contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of Australia. 

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An angry woman shouted out from the gods that we were all invaders who had destroyed the Garden of Eden. This is Melbourne in 2003 when Keith Windschuttle debated Pat Grimshaw.

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