Andrew L. Urban

The cheap renewable thrill of climate protests

18 March 2024 11:29 pm

On March 13, 2024, Greta Thunberg was dragged away from blocking the Swedish Parliament entrance for a second day. She…

Is the Pope’s moral surrender a sin?

12 March 2024 2:00 am

In the Middle East, US President Joe Biden is urging Israel’s surrender to the terrorist Hamas organisation via a ceasefire.…

Extinction of reason: why I detest climate activists

7 March 2024 1:36 am

Three climate activists were arrested and charged on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, after parking a large truck across three lanes…

Trump could trump Putin on Ukraine

5 March 2024 4:00 am

Vladimir Putin is playing his cards in the Ukraine Invasion Stakes as if he held the trump card. A resolute…

A way out of Net Zero

2 March 2024 2:43 am

Dear Peter Dutton, CC Ted O’Brien I’ve been badgering and ridiculing Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen in this…

The Carlson critique

22 February 2024 3:00 am

Volodymyr Zelensky – the front-line president (Wilkinson Publishing) Andrew L. Urban & Chris McLeod Our new book (the 2nd on…

West’s moral ground sodden with tears for the guilty

15 February 2024 8:40 pm

If you want absolute proof that the West is built on Judeo-Christian principles, the unconditional absolving of Hamas after its…

The latest grenade for the Trump-hating media

10 February 2024 3:52 pm

Analysts in a new study say they can conclude that 28.2 per cent of respondents who voted by mail in…

Misunderstanding ‘excellence’

8 February 2024 2:00 am

The Sydney (Patronising) Film Festival has introduced ‘the world’s largest cash prize for Indigenous filmmaking’ at $35,000. My heart sank at…

Hamas’ horrifying summer camp musical

4 February 2024 1:45 am

Lights, music, guns! Dozens of school children run out, armed with prop assault weapons enact a choreographed assault against imaginary…

Did they chant ‘Gas the Jews’ or ‘Where’s the Jews!’

2 February 2024 1:40 pm

The choked, panicked words ‘I shot the prick!’ recorded in an emergency call played at a murder trial would have…

Dare not speak its name

18 January 2024 11:30 pm

According to recent polling around the consequential caucuses just held, some 80 per cent of Iowa Republicans believe Joe Biden’s…

The village witch-doctor

12 January 2024 2:30 am

In some tribal societies, the village witch-doctor claims to have remedies to protect others against maladies and witchcraft. Neither such…

Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter

2 January 2024 4:00 am

Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…

Why this atheist celebrates Christmas

9 December 2023 2:53 pm

I believe in Jesus, but I don’t believe in god. I don’t go to church, but I do celebrate Christmas.…

The Bowen Shock in your energy bill

5 December 2023 11:22 am

My recent electricity bill was informative but menacing. It had several bits of statistical info, including the variation in consumption…

Bowen should be goin’

29 November 2023 3:00 am

It’s still not too late for Australia’s welfare, let’s hope, for the Opposition to call on the Prime Minister to…

Another epidemic of irrationality

20 November 2023 10:00 am

I must stop smacking my forehead in disbelief. With that undertaking in mind, I referred back to an article of…

Parable of the apple and the hand grenade

19 November 2023 11:34 am

It came to pass one day, an apple and a hand grenade came face to face. I am an apple,…

Wong & Macron (et al) ignorant of Hamas mindset

15 November 2023 4:30 am

Calling for Israeli restraint and/or a ceasefire, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined French President Emanuel Macron in demonstrating…

Human shields to useful corpses?

9 November 2023 4:30 am

‘I read the news today…oh boy,’ John Lennon’s lyrics begin (A Day in the Life). The news said: ‘The Ministry…

The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency

4 November 2023 10:09 am

Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…

It’s the mens rea, stupid!

31 October 2023 1:08 am

The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…

It is still called genocide

24 October 2023 2:57 pm

Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…

A bomb wrapped as a gift: no thanks

19 October 2023 2:24 pm

It would have detonated multiple times over a few years, as the Voice package, if accepted by Australians, shed its…