Those on the Left, being childlike in their unthinking enthusiasms, are mostly republicans and prone to the pursuit of instant gratification, hang the details and consequences. That said, I might -- stress on "might" -- back a republic, but only if the likes of Peter FitzSimons spell out in explicit detail what they have in mind

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We can be certain the climate debate has reached the lowest ebb when children are made the pawns of rent-seekers and political panic merchants. As to what might remedy the problem -- if there is a problem, that is -- the prescriptions so far do more harm than the alleged disease

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What can charitably said of Christians who identify with leftist politics? The two simply don’t mix because Christians should not be complicit in producing misery. And there is ample evidence, not least in the pleas for Divine intervention of my climate-activist fellow congregants, showing that leftist policies do just that

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Morality is central to who we are. Despite large-scale moral lapses down the centuries and a myriad of smaller ones in everyday life, we must be moral creatures, at least overwhelmingly so. If this were not the case, we would surely lead a very fearful, brutal, rude and tenuous existence. Is this morality a gift […]

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The extremism which has taken over the Democratic Party has become the new normal. Without exception the presidential candidates espouse the most ridiculous, untenable dangerous and debilitating policies without being laughed off the stage

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What if the Reserve Bank and Treasury discarded their misguided focus on demand? For starters, hundreds of highly-paid public-sector economists would have to do something useful to justify their salaries. Meanwhile, with the right policies, we would see our dawdling economy undergo a supply-side renaissance

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They look human, sound like it too. But when you say something with which they disagree, it's not rational argument that ensues but shrieking, howling invective and the demand that you be silenced once and for all. Having principles is a liability these days, which is why so many won't stand by them

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Do we put too much store on dragging out our lives? There are any number of set days when there are collections in the cause of finding cures for various morbidities. None of it does any good in the end result. We will all die anyway and within a comparatively short space of time.

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A friend of mine, knowing I had some background in economics, asked me whether I could write something to make sense of today’s extremely low interest rates. He finds it puzz­ling. I did too. So, I decided to try to make sense of it all. Partly, it is a race to the bottom, I concluded. […]

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Israel Folau's sermons aren't the real problem, unpleasant as many find them. The problem is the anti-Christian, woke, intersectional, censorious, cancel-culturing age we live in. That and failure to remember that we pay for our sins, down here at least, by the trouble they bring us

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