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Apocalypse? Free markets to the rescue!
March 14, 2013
There are so many purported threats to life, limb and planet, they need to take turns keeping anxious citizens awake at night. But not to worry! If government dolts and green meddlers stand clear, entrepreneurial capitalism will save the day, just as it always has
Read more...Pope Francis: Curia and curiouser
March 14, 2013
The Pontiff from Argentina is as yet a largely unknown quantity, although one would hope he does not represent a species of Jesuit so common in the US and Australia -- the sort, in other words, who spend their congregants' money on websites hailing Hugo Chavez
Read more...The Papal Punter's Form Guide
March 13, 2013
The Holy Spirit has some work to do in guiding the College of Cardinals as it selects the next Pontiff. Here is an introduction to the leading candidates' virtues and shortcomings
Read more...Conroy must be stopped!
March 13, 2013
Of all its assaults on decency, honesty, competence and common sense, Communication Minister Stephen Conroy's assault on free speech represents this dying government at its lowest and most contemptible
Read more...Stephen Conroy, mostly in his own words
March 13, 2013
We will hear a lot from the Communications Minister over the next two weeks as he tries to sell restrictions on press freedom and free speech. What he has said over previous years is more enlightening
Read more...Random jottings from election night in the West
March 11, 2013
Antony Green's legs were new, the sausage-sizzle spear-carriers weren't, and the spectacle of a born-to-the-purple Baby Beazely coming a cropper was quite simply delicious
Read more...The horse still comes before the cart
March 11, 2013
Keynesians should be grateful to the cult of climate change. If not for evangelical warmists and their economy-wrecking nostrums, your advocates of demand-side stimulation would be the biggest dills on the public stage
Read more...Saint Hugo of Venezuela
March 10, 2013
El Presidente did not lack for toadies and flatterers while ruining one of the world's oil-rich nations, but that gushing is as nothing beside the tears and tributes inspired by news of his death. Mussolini should have been so lucky
Read more...How conservatives lose -- and win
March 8, 2013
Obama should have been an easy target for Republicans in last year's presidential election, yet their hopes were dashed. Wall Street Journal editorialist Mary Kissel explained that defeat at a recent Melbourne lunch
Read more...Ted's gone. Hoorah!
March 7, 2013
With all the kinds words being showered on Ted Baillieu now that he is no longer Victoria's Premier, you might wonder why he had to go. There were good reasons and plenty of them, not least that whatever his guiding principles might have been, they sure weren't conservative ones
Read more...Small change and big delusions
March 4, 2013
Conservatives tend to get unduly upset when governments decree increases in the mimimum wage. Yes, it is always a feel-good nonsense, but the actual impact will be slight. A far greater threat to economic health is the fallacious philosophy that inspires such moves
Read more...The sins of the fathers
March 3, 2013
Sunday services are increasingly bereft of worshippers, but not to worry. The important thing is that Anglican women are now free to preach the gospel of feminist victimhood to those empty pews
Read more...On the thinnest of thin ice
February 27, 2013
Even the truest of true believers have lost hope that Julia Gillard can lead her party to anything but disaster. It's wrong to enjoy the pain of others, but when those hoping for Divine intervention include the likes of Labor's professional apologists, their dismay is a delight to watch
Read more...For the left, only myths and monsters remain
February 26, 2013
With neither principles nor record worth the effort of defending, the left loses itself in class-war mythology and Keynesian incantations
Read more...A new priesthood calls its inquisition to order
February 25, 2013
If you go by media coverage, the Catholic Church is poisoned root and branch by child sexual abuse and related coverups. While state institutions, other creeds and social organisations rate scarcely a mention, therapists and social engineers conduct a trial to justify their foregone verdict
Read more...Mr Wilders, meet Ted Baxter, er, Andrew O'Keefe
February 25, 2013
In their Sunday morning interview, the Dutchman played it straight while talking head Andrew O'Keefe handled the comic relief. He plays the fool very well indeed
Read more...If I may be allowed to speak freely
February 24, 2013
When the person charged with protecting free speech can't quite grasp what the concept is all about, the free and frank exchange of ideas is under serious threat. So, ultimately, is the future of Australia's robust democracy
Read more...Another Immigration Minister all at sea
February 24, 2013
Like his predeccessors, Brendan O'Connor seems to believe that ridiculing Tony Abbott will stop those boats. And do you know what? Incompetence, incoherence and misleading press release will not stop them either
Read more...Back to the future with industry policy
February 20, 2013
Roughly translated, the Gillard government's Industry & Innovation manifesto signals the back-door return of protectionism, meddlesome regulation and bureaucratic oversight. Worse, even if Labor were to recognise the damage it will inflict, political considerations preclude even the slightest fix
Read more...The noxious weeds in our food bowl
February 20, 2013
Australia's capacity to feed the world has never been greater, but tapping that potential means first rejecting a green-taped distaste for development that has become official policy in all but name
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