If you accept that youngsters are better left uninstructed than seriously misled, the case for filling kids' heads with Keynsian nonsense simply cannot be made. Given the state of discipline in schools and the likely sympathies of their teachers, by my reckoning it is tantamount to child abuse

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Don’t be fooled, the urgent need to combat climate change, as cited by the Green New Deal, is nothing more nor less than a trojan horse, inside of which lurks Comrade Marx. A utopian paradise for all is its promise -- utopian as in Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba and Chávez’s Venezuela

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We, the people, have to be on our guard when government excuses oppressive and discriminatory action on the basis that only a small minority will be injured. Who will form the next small minority? Who will be picked off next?

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Put aside the natural aversion to the Davos billionaires. Capitalism is the only system which can continually reduce poverty and increase overall prosperity. Yes, capitalism creates very rich people, but capitalism won’t work its wonders without very rich people

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Examine each of the beliefs of progressives. Translated into policy and action, none will improve the lot of the developed and civilised Western world. Most will end in suffering and tears. Progressives truly are the high priests of denialism

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One is supposed to begin the new year imbued with optimism, so accept my apologies for the long face and grim tidings. I hear very little debate about about the most pressing issues but many war cries from the new tribalists. Folly, I fear, isn't marching, it's galloping

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If you train the brain to ignore consequences then it seems to me, admittedly as a non-neurologist, that you will perforce become increasingly stupid as the lessons of repeated failure are ignored. And thus, the progressive Left must be treated as a race apart when IQ testing is conducted

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The great figure of the twentieth century was William Temple (1881–1944), Archbishop of Canterbury, who urged that the church must choose between socialism and heresy.                                                                            —Dictionary of the Episcopal Church ____________________ I visited Melbourne recently and popped into an op shop with an old friend. He pointed out a book titled Pros and Cons, […]

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The condemned pray for clemency, a mercy unlikely to be granted by the gods of the ballot box if current and consistent polls suggesting the imminence of a Shorten government prove true. So brace for more spending, more gold-plated green subsidies and -- inshallah! -- more migrants

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Immigration cannot be just a numbers game, which is what it has become. Look at the quarter-million arrivals Australia accepted in the most recent year for which numbers are available and the disquieting thing is how very alien are the cultures that accompany them

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