Trump as Churchill's heir might seem an invidious comparison, but think about it for a moment. Moral flaws are a common element, likewise the withering put-down, and each followed a trail of successes and failures to their nation's top jobs. The the key similarity, though, is the most simple: both men recognised mortal enemies and neither shrank from the fight

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Intoxicated mariners are generally reckoned the yardsticks for profligate spending, likewise the agonies of their next day's hangovers. In their defence, however, it should be noted that, unlike this week's Budget spend-a-rama, it is their own money they squander and the debilitating symptoms of excess last no more than a single day

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The French political economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801–50) is not particularly well acknowledged or regarded in the annals of economics. My bible on economic theories and personalities of the past, Mark Blaug’s Economic Theory in Retrospect, does not mention him. A clue to his relative obscurity can be found in an entry by economist Robert F. […]

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The government should continue relief spending while it keeps the economy in paralysis and during a reasonable period thereafter. Beyond that, it should focus on removing regulatory impediments to economic adjustments, development and growth. That’s hard work. Easier to rely on the Keynesian fallacy -- spend money and hope it helps

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Walk unthinkingly in front of a car and, apart from an immediate and rather painful lesson in the physics of propelled objects, what you will learn is that emergency wards are staffed with lovely, caring people who drive you half crazy before finally agreeing to let you limp home

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Eventually, when we can look back at the panicdemic of 2020, the political machines will have been hard at work to prop up the storyline that a health disaster on the scale of the Spanish flu was averted only by wise governments applying tough medicine. The media will be onboard, of course, and lies the stock in trade

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The need in this post-modern age, when the Left's fabrications are repeated so often they come to be accepted as truth by the uniformed, is for conservatives to arm themselves with the facts and respond resolutely. Yes, it will rile your interlocutor, but who values the friendship of those who cannot be trusted?

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I recently heard a lecture online by John Woodhouse, former principal of Moore Theological College. Among many telling observations, one particularly struck me: If, indisputably, peerless Western civilisation was built on Christianity and yet Christianity is untrue, then it must be concluded that Western civilisation is built on a lie

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Avoiding infection will guarantee the survival of the China virus. It will lurk, ever waiting to strike at fresh meat. And what of Victoria's leader and his fellow premiers? They will flap, squawk, threaten, fine, close things down and strip the populace of their liberties, all the while preventing any build-up of immunity

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Johannes Leak published a cartoon and, like Pavlov's dog, the usual suspects were soon awash with their own slobbered venom. When Kevin Rudd, Louise Milligan, Katharine Murphy, Benjamin Law, Michael Rowland, Virginia Trioli, Jonathan Green, Patricia Karvelas, Annabel Crabb, Julia Baird, Mike Carlton and Tim Soutphommasane reach for the rope, you know The Australian's cartoonist got it just right

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