Saturday, August 14, 2004

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DESERTED BEACHES -- AND PAPAL ENCYCLICALS I may be wrong but I have the strong impression that the ideal image of a tropical beach that ...

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ELSEWHERE Kerry caught in a lie : "I was startled to read the Aug. 10 issue of the editorial page of The Washington Times concerni...
Friday, August 13, 2004

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CLINTON TOO! Well bugger me! I rarely use crude language but this is an occasion for it: Bill Clinton is here in Far North Queensland ...

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ETTY BAY Thanks to my trusty IBM Thinkpad, I am writing this whilst leaning up against a rock and sitting on the beach at tropical Etty ...
Thursday, August 12, 2004

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TROPICAL VACATION I have taken a week away from my usual haunts to spend in my ancestral place. All four of my grandparewnts were born ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2004

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SOME ECONOMICS Hong Kong: still on top "Its territory may be small in size, but Hong Kong's achievements are substantial. Hong...

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ELSEWHERE Australia's Leftist historians have now become a laughing-stock : "As the elite of the nation's academic histori...
Tuesday, August 10, 2004

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IRAQ IN RETROSPECT I have recently been alerted to a couple of older posts by "Godless" of "Gene Expression" (see he...

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ELSEWHERE PID (post of August 4th.) also deploys his characteristic skepticism against the Australia/U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He rig...
Monday, August 09, 2004

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GUN WATCH As regular readers of this blog will mostly have noted by now, I have recently started a fourth blog -- called GUN WATCH...

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ELSEWHERE Sad that the limited degree of capitalism in Vietnam today does not go with any political freedom. The Vietnamese "Comm...
Sunday, August 08, 2004

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SOME RECENT GOOD EMAILS FROM READERS "When my younger sister died at 59, and when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I had new c...

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ELSEWHERE "Liberal" psychology : "Liberalism isn't a political ideology; it's a psychology - the psychology of s...
Saturday, August 07, 2004

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THE MORE THINGS CHANGE ..... An email from a Dutch-speaking reader "I just acquired - for my collection of war memorabilia - a ...

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ELSEWHERE Amusing: The Left-leaning "Prospect" magazine has just published its list of the top 100 British intellectuals. A...
Friday, August 06, 2004

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FROM BROOKES NEWS Anti-Semites find a home in John Kerry's party Why do Kerry and his fellow Democrats value the services of this p...

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ELSEWHERE Hmmm.. I think I need to come to the aid of one of my fellow Australian conservative bloggers. A Leftist blogger by the name...
Thursday, August 05, 2004

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THE EDUCATION DEBACLE A great cry that regularly emanates from politicians who want to sound "caring" is the need for more ...

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ELSEWHERE A fabulous example of Leftist thinking from the current Socialist government of Spain. They are trying to get Gibraltar back ...
Wednesday, August 04, 2004

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BLOGGER.COM SHENANIGANS Recent email from a reader: "I visit your web sites on close to a daily basis. Obviously, I enjoy them. H...