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Cathollaxy #1
Let me focus the thread just a little bit. Setting aside the off-the-cuff remark re ‘low hanging fruit’, the criticism of Pius XII’s Munificentissimus Deus seems to offer some focus. Firstly, there is the criticism that there is no biblical basis for the Assumption of Mary, and secondly, there is criticism of the exercise of the…
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The Prime Minister’s mea culpa?
What did we learn from Scott Morrison’s mea culpa and precis of his Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic at the National Press Club on Tuesday? While referring to the up-ending of lives and livelihoods and how exhausting ‘…financially, emotionally and psychologically’ the last two years have been for Australians. Primarily, the decisions made, he…
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Open Thread – Weekend 5 Feb 2022
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Love by Mail
My recent post about Russia’s declining population led me off on a tangent where I found myself wondering what, if any, impact the ‘mail order’ bride phenomenon had on that decline. In fact, mail order brides are not new and date back to the 1600’s with Britain and France both using it to populate and…
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Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government
Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II): These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend…
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Saudi Arabia, the Houthi and the UAE
The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthi rebels in Yemen has been going on since 2015. It has simmered away with various clashes between 2015-2020 but 2021 saw a dramatic escalation in strikes by the Houthi and strikes/retaliation by the Saudis. For background, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sharing a land border on the Arabian…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #7
Hitch Alfred Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899 and died on April 29th, 1980. If ever there was a filmmaker who defined a genre i.e. the suspense thriller, it was Alfred Hitchcock, where he is known as the Master of Suspense, and, arguably, the most influential film director in cinema history; and, yet, incredibly,…
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Meme of the Day #12
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The game’s up, but Aussie politicians won’t notice
Just read the latest weekly NSW Covid Surveillance Report. Among other data covering the seven weeks to 15 January, it provides figures (table 6) for those infected who suffered a severe outcome; i.e., “ICU and/or death.” Of the 614 people concerned 467 had been either double or triple vaxxed. While it is true that 467…
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Guest Post: Speedbox – Populate or Perish
Newscorp.com.au recently posted a story about the declining population of Russia. Whilst fundamentally true, I thought I would take a deeper look. Immediately prior to the fall of the USSR in 1991, Russia’s population was 148.3m people with a fertility rate of 1.77. Considering everything the Russian people had been through in the preceding years,…