The goal had always been to stall Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the US Supreme Court until after the midterm elections, when Democrats hope to gain the upper hand on Capitol Hill and save what has been the SCOTUS 'swing seat' from falling to a conservative jurist. In this endeavour the Left enjoys a considerable advantage: a willingness -- nay, eagerness -- to lie is encoded in its DNA

Zeg's thoughts on Mark Knight's recent ordeal

The more delicate blossoms in the Coalition's garden have noticed that the business of politics can involve threats and, oh dear, this horrible bullying. From the backbench, a champion roars

The latest Prime Minister, a re-shuffled cabinet, some welcome new faces but even more Tullbullian relics retained -- and no Tony Abbott. Thus, not with a leap but a lurch, does the Liberal Party hope to emerge from beneath the wreckage of the past three years. Mr Morrison might want to try a little harder to clear the debris

The news that Australia will be spending $7 billion on a fleet of far-ranging surveillance drones set Zeg to thinking about unintended consequences, most particularly at the ballot box. All those potential Labor voters being made to observe Australian immigration law? How racist is that!

Just who and what is the ABC's core audience? Zeg has a pretty good idea.

They tell us the science is settled, that 97% of scientist live in fear of global warming, and yet the very same climate careerists keep demanding additional sums of other people's money to study a matter they insist is beyond dispute. Be that as it may, there is one thing about warmism that is clearly true: Catastropharianism's high priests burn heretics on the pyre of science's ongoing corruption. Just ask the unfortunate Peter Ridd, formerly of James Cook University.