So far this year, 39 Americans have been convicted of election interference involving 'fraudulent absentee ballots', 'false registrations', 'buying votes' and -- talk about chutzpah! --  bribing a Philadelphia judge to add hundreds of notional votes to Democratic candidates' tallies. Dismiss the deniers of widespread fraud. Cheating, like baseball, is the national pastime

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Here we are, the Democrats staring into the abyss, with nothing to boast about and less than a week to go. Nothing for it but to keep cranking up the hate, and if that means depicting Paul Pelosi's attacker, a drug-addled hippy nudist and all-round nut case as a typical Republican, so be it.

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Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump's puppetmaster. That was yesteryear's lie, relentlessly amplified in Australia by the ABC in particular. Stay tuned, for there are more and bigger lies to come, all to be parroted with unfaltering fidelity by mass media outlets that no longer quite seem to grasp the meaning of the word 'shame'.

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Abortion, nasty business. Best not to think too much about it. Their bodies themselves etc., and leave the girls to it. The comfort of evasion. The false refuge of choosing not to settle on a moral position. That's the way it was until one woman's tears told of anguish, regret and a crippling, hopeless longing

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The problem with boys, if you put credence in feminist thought and the teachers it influences, is that they are not girls. It's a perspective recently aired on Twitter by a US professor of journalism, who fears XY chromosomes make young lads natural alt.right recruits. The professor was soon taken memorably to task

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Pity the Garden State's conservatives, who no longer have any mainstream party at the state level in which to invest their votes and confidence. What about state Opposition Leader Matthew Guy's Liberals, you might ask? Well the gale of denunciations directed these past few days at a fellow Liberal who opposes legal abortions is Exhibit A of many more

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The doctor on the radio was lambasting ivermectin as being of no use against COVID-19, so I called in to ask why India witnessed a precipitous decline in infections after the drug's widespread distribution? The station that bills itself as the place 'where you can talk and share what matters most' cut me off in seven seconds flat

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It was undeserved, given that Victoria's incompetence in dealing with COVID has been wrapped from the start in a caul of lies, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg nevertheless has come to the party with yet more aid to take the pressure off the incompetents ruining Victoria. The pity is that he didn't ask some very pointed questions before doling out the latest aid

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The charitable view would be that the ABC zapped a Facebook post on Nicole Flint's speech about the sexist harassment she has endured because scores of commenters took it as an opportunity to give the retiring Member for Boothby more of the same. Or did it vanish because the thread opened a revealing window on the sentiments and nature of its core supporters?

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If he is lucky, Christian Porter will limp away, secure for the moment in his job but with the reek of suspicion and smear destined to dog him ever after. Come the next Cabinet shuffle, he'll be damaged goods fit only to be shunted sideways or out. Of course, if he has the spine, he might choose to give as good as he gets

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