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Lights, camera, self-satisfaction

Zeg
18th October 2018

They must teach it in journalism schools as a simple, all-purpose standby when the need arises to report something inconveniently accurate — you know, like the reason power prices are so high or the way in which flood-level immigration artificially inflates GDP. When at a loss for a real story the solution is simple: just beat up another compote of slurs about Nauru being Australia’s “concentration camp”

He’s a Republican? Guilty!

Zeg
29th September 2018

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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

The ‘Bully’ Pulpit

Zeg
8th September 2018

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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

Standing on their record, recor…rec…wreckage

Zeg
27th August 2018

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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

Votes by the Boatload

Zeg
17th July 2018

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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!

University? Loonyversity!

Zeg
27th May 2018

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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.

Modern policing

Zeg
1st May 2018

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A happy day indeed for Victoria Police, now that Cardinal George Pell has been sent to trial, and nowhere more festive than in the suburb of Fawkner, where local youths were encouraged to fill balloons with paint and pelt the local police station. Yes, really

The Real Enemy

Zeg
24th April 2018

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Hanging in there

Zeg
28th March 2018

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South African firebrand Julius Malema explains to a TV interviewer how white farmers might be stripped of their land via legal means, with those considered “essential” perhaps allowed to remain on long-term leases — or not, as the case may be. As an endorsement of caprice as the rule of law’s guiding principle it is nasty stuff, although not quite so toxic as this clip in which Mr Malena enjoys a gloating moment of tribal triumphalism while assuring the crowd that it is white South Africans’ turn to suffer.

Naturally, as Zeg observes at this link or the one below, the Greens immediately identified the real racists.

More in the dark than usual

Zeg
25th March 2018

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Those in the business of telegraphing their virtue turned the lights off (and everything else) on Saturday night to celebrate Earth Hour, which is supposed to save the planet or something. In the light or in the dark, no difference: dimness is your ardent warmist’s constant companion