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“The undecided”
I watched, reluctantly, the first “debate” between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and this is what I now find out from the papers: Undecided voters give win to Anthony Albanese after leaders’ debate. This was the final tally: Of the 100 undecided voters at the debate, 40 per cent gave the debate…
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Weekday Reading #20
My War: How I got irony in the infantry, Paul Fussell, Harper’s What I Said at Harvard: What’s Wrong with the Proposition: “Return to the Founders to Save America”, Patrick Deneen, The Postliberal Order Scissors, Paste, and Aquinas, Pat Smith, Ius & Iustitium The Logic of Lockdowns Leads to Shanghai, Alex Gutentag, Compact New Model…
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Surely the leaders of the American left do not believe the things they say they believe
This is an article by the incomparable David Mamet: American Occupation. Let me get to the core points he makes: Over the last two years in America, I’ve witnessed our own forces of evil with incredulity, despair, and rage. Corruption, blasphemy, and absurdity have been accepted by one-half of the electorate as the cost of doing…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #16
The Holocaust Given current events in Europe it is well worth remembering that the defining event of the last hundred years was probably the Holocaust. Man’s inhumanity to man reached its zenith with the wholesale genocide of European Jews during World War II in which the Nazis systemically murdered some six million Jews, in addition…
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When being far-right is just right
“Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.” This extract is from the BBC. “France’s incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for an April 24 presidential election run-off.” This is…
That was before the Left discovered climate change.
I used to find Revelation disturbing.
Perhaps NSW should have a plebiscite: Do you want migrants or koalas? In Qld it is ‘do you want koalas…
and can be very cryptic- ‘in the beginning there was the Word’
Milt, in the context there’s nothing cryptic about it – the Word is Jesus Christ, “full of grace and truth”,…