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Genital cutting
Not my favourite topic but someone had to say it. While there is animated discussion about the mutilation of girls who have been persuaded that they want to be boys there is another kind of female mutilation that has been under the radar for some time. What is going on? I don’t have time to…
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Open Thread – Tue 20 Dec 2022
Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847
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Rafe’s Roundup 19 Dec
Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of…
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Meet the classical liberal vagabond
There is a quiet achiever on the liberal/conservative scene, the indefatigable and mercurial Dara Macdonald. Thinker. Writer. Reader. Freedom enthusiast. Conservative Vagabond. Cocktail maker. Lawyer. Dara Macdonald is an Australian lawyer and founder. Dara has worked as in-house legal counsel for various national and multinational companies. Last year she took up a year-long research position with Australia’s…
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Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022
The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
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Arizona Election Contest
Over the weekend, lawyers for Kerri Lake filed a lawsuit against Katie Hobbs, both as contestee and in her capacity f Secretary of State, and various election officials of Maricopa County, re the gubernatorial election in Arizona this past mid-term election. You can find the lawsuit filed here. The vote margin at present is 17,117…
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Open Thread – Tue 13 Dec 2022
The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
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Peace-Mongering, Ukraine style
News Reports and Analysis Daily Mail, 30th November, 2021 The Daily Mail reported that three gatherings of some Downing Street staff had taken place during November and December of 2020. This was the lifting of the lid on the cesspool of cynicism that characterised the political response to Covid-19 all over the Western world, with…
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Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022
The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867
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Wokey Women
Being Christmas, this is the time of year I get to attend work lunches at fancy Sydney restaurants. Yesterday, I attended another such lunch, it was my third in a week, about twenty of us went to a particularly good CBD restaurant. I don’t enjoy these lunches. Why? Well, I like to keep my social…