Friday, December 05, 2003

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ELSEWHERE Who said this? "I am in favour of upward mobility through hard work," It was the new leader of Australia’s major ...
Thursday, December 04, 2003

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TAX, WELFARE AND WILLINGNESS TO WORK There is a useful review by Jeff Madrick in the New York Review of Books of the broadly conserv...

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AN OLD LIE The Leftists sure do love their lies and distortions. They just CANNOT give them up. An Australian Leftist blog is a good e...

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ELSEWHERE There’s no let-up to that Leftist arrogance and elitism. Read how Hillary Clinton treated U.S. troops on her vist to Afghanis...
Wednesday, December 03, 2003

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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST On 30th I linked to a story by Blogger Brian O'Connell in which he caught out a Leftist "investigative...

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ELSEWHERE Hooray! Russia says it will not ratify the stupid Kyoto “Greenhouse” protocol. That means it is DEAD! Amazing! Afghan ...
Tuesday, December 02, 2003

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IS GWB A GOOD CONSERVATIVE AFTER ALL? Libertarians and libertarian conservatives such as myself have been totally appalled at the way th...

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ELSEWHERE Hmmm.. I don't know if I agree with this. Libertarians disagreeing with conservatives is nothing new : "Ask a roomf...
Monday, December 01, 2003

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MY DEAD-TREE RESCUE PROJECT One upon a time, if one wanted to find out the facts about something, one went to a library. That was pesky...
Sunday, November 30, 2003

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“ECOLOGICAL” CORRELATIONS AND RACE In statistics, “ecological” correlations have nothing to do with environmentalism. The term refers t...

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GREENIE WATCH "Wind power may well be the least environmentally friendly idea ever proposed by environmentalists. That certainly s...

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ELSEWHERE Muslims can do no wrong in the EU : "Researchers at a German institute who found young Muslims were to blame for many att...
Saturday, November 29, 2003

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Alpha Patriot has an excellent coverage of GWB’s visit to Iraq -- photos, speeches etc.

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FOR THOSE WHO LIKE PHILOSOPHICAL HEADACHES: Keith Burgess-Jackson is an unusual combination -- a conservative animal libber. He deriv...

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ELSEWHERE There is a pretty hard-hitting article here -- by someone who should know -- about what a creampuff army the U.S. Army has b...
Friday, November 28, 2003

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KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION: DONE BY THE LEFT FOR THE LEFT A reader writes: “There is an interesting article on LewRockwell.com that dis...

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MORE ON LAKOFF A reader comments: “Lakoff posited that conservatives have a "strict father" view of social institutions, wh...

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ELSEWHERE My recent post on Fascism aroused some interest so I have now uploaded an extract from one of the best-known histories of Ita...
Thursday, November 27, 2003

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TURKEY-SIN No. I don’t mean that Thanksgiving dinners make you fat. You need LOTS of dinners to make you fat. I am referring to Keith...

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ELITISM IS LEFTIST There is no doubt that the “limousine liberal” phenomenon goes back a long way. The term seems to have been populari...

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Chinese missiles target US cities, thanks to the Clintons and media treason. America's mainstream media is not o...

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ELSEWHERE Thanksgiving Day is a religious holiday. As George Washington wrote when he proclaimed it: “"Now, therefore, I do recomm...
Wednesday, November 26, 2003

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TURKEYS AND DELEGATION From Socrates on, good philosophers have always aimed to stir up critical thinking so I guess that Keith Burge...

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LEFTISM PLUS NATIONALISM EQUALS FASCISM Cinderella Bloggerfeller is a blog I like very much -- in part because he is one of the few blo...

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ELSEWHERE Muslim antisemitism is OK in the EU : "The European Union's racism watchdog has shelved a report on anti-semitism be...
Tuesday, November 25, 2003

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GREENIE WATCH The Greens push a policy called the “precautionary principle” -- which basically says that if anything MIGHT be harmful it...

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ELSEWHERE The Arab press is gloating about the reception in Israel of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini -- because Fini h...
Monday, November 24, 2003

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POLITICS SHOULD BE LIKE FLYING AN AIRCRAFT One of my Australian readers writes: "I refer to the following extract from your post...

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MEDICAL MAYHEM I have said this before myself but when Milton Friedman says it, it is worth repeating : "We are deeply concerned a...

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ELSEWHERE The Bible-oriented Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney has seen an 11% rise in its congregations in recent years -- while over the...
Sunday, November 23, 2003

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REVISITING EDMUND BURKE What conservatism means: Owen Harries (a fellow Australian and a former colleague of mine at the University of...

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ELSEWHERE Would you believe it? The Michael Jackson arrest is the fault of “white racism”? “The star's mother, Catherine Jackson,...
Saturday, November 22, 2003

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SOME STEREOTYPE-BUSTING This writer has just attended a large international conference of business leaders. So what were these busines...