Higher journalistic standards ...

Jun 13, 2019 by

Higher journalistic standards would be in the public interest!

by Justinian the Great – What is in the public interest? This has been getting a good run by the journalist class this past...

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Defining socialism in the mode...

Jun 10, 2019 by

Defining socialism in the modern world

by Steve Kates – Here is the original story: Socialism is losing its stigma thanks to Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez as a MAJORITY...

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The new class war, from econom...

Apr 4, 2019 by

The new class war, from economics to identity

by Rafe Champion – Andrew Bushnell at the IPA shared a piece by Roger Scruton on the persistence of the class divide in...

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If this is the standard of evi...

Oct 3, 2018 by

If this is the standard of evidence required to ruin a life no one is safe

by Steve Kates – WATCH: President Trump mocks Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Trump’s Supreme Court pick Judge...

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Renaissance Woman wants privat...

Dec 11, 2017 by

Renaissance Woman wants private schools to be banned

According to the ABC’s Geraldine Doogue, Elizabeth Farrelly is the Renaissance Woman.  And not just the Renaissance Woman but also:...

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If you think Trump is Hitler v...

Jan 30, 2017 by

If you think Trump is Hitler visit Auschwitz

by Steve Kates – Having just been to Birkenau-Auschwitz, which I did reluctantly but am not sorry that we did, the ignorance of...

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The Russians are coming!

Dec 12, 2016 by

The Russians are coming!

by Steve Kates – In fact, according to the latest forms of Democrat hysteria, they have already been. I’m not even sure I know...

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If only we were as smart as th...

Dec 11, 2016 by

If only we were as smart as they are

by Steve Kates – The reality is that the left is more obtuse, less informed and cruelly indifferent to the social and political...

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More green energy costs to pla...

Oct 27, 2016 by

More green energy costs to placate activists and their financiers

by Alan Moran – The trove of emails that Wikileaks is publishing help to explain what drives political decision taking.  This...

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Thoughts on leaving China

Sep 5, 2016 by

Thoughts on leaving China

by Steve Kates – The only people who look for green solutions are people who have never worked a day in their lives. Spending a...

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Tertiary Education Australian ...

Sep 2, 2016 by

Tertiary Education Australian Style

by I am Spartacus – Dr. Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, recently wrote a very interesting piece in the Australian –...

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Closing the digital divide for...

Jul 15, 2016 by

Closing the digital divide for all students

By Jose Frausto – I attended a neighborhood public school in Chicago where, from a very early age, I felt the difference...

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Australia Institute fabricates...

Jul 14, 2016 by

Australia Institute fabricates cherry picks data III

by Sinclair Davidson – The story so far: The Australia Institute released a briefing note that contains some very interesting...

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Anti-capitalism is a form of h...

Jun 21, 2016 by

Anti-capitalism is a form of hate speech that has caused the deaths of hundreds of millions

by Steve Kates – I have been reading David Solway’s The Problem with Hate Speech which has brought this to mind. It is about...

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Safe at home – but not in scho...

May 31, 2016 by

Safe at home – but not in school

by Steve Kates – I only bring this article to your attention because of the reference to Keynes. The rest is just Mark Latham...

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Time for lefties to live the d...

Mar 29, 2016 by

Time for lefties to live the dream

by Sinclair Davidson – Our guess is that most Yale University professors are proud to be progressives. Well, they are now...

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Too salacious for Parliamentar...

Feb 28, 2016 by

Too salacious for Parliamentarians but okay for 11 year olds

How’s this for bizarre? On July 23 last year the Australian Christian Lobby’s Queensland spokeswoman, Wendy Francis, lodged a...

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