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Rustbelt Libs smash small business over vacuous vaping claims
As the South Australian Government forces $60 million worth of local small businesses to close their doors, they are also…
How markets are making our lives better
The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed,…
Nauru kids and “resignation syndrome”: a political diagnosis
The term “resignation syndrome” arose just over a decade ago in Sweden. It described what doctors were seeing among refugees…
Try a little tenderness
Prime Minister Scot Morrison’s Christianity has been under the media spotlight recently. All the reporting showed me that when people…
Forget global warming, here’s some really spooky science
Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This (along with his First…
The Bosphorus option
Failed leaders or pretenders to the throne in the old Ottoman Empire received no mercy. Having failed the test to…
Grow a juicy kick-arse vagina and stop whinging
The #MeToo campaign goes up my arse sideways. The once empowering movement has transformed into a violent and hateful vendetta…
Nanny Gladys ignores the facts again
In unsurprising news, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week announced she would adopt all of the recommendations made…
Ten things Sinead O’Connor will learn from her new religion
You’ve probably already heard that Sinead O’Connor has converted to Islam. But the problem is, I don’t think she really…
Why snowflakes’ Post Trump Stress Disorder has become real PTSD
Mass hysteria is gripping significant sections of the left, a seemingly genuine conviction that Donald Trump is Hitler and that…
The week in misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. Geoffrey Rush…
Change the rules? How? Change economic reality?
The force of gravity, the speed of light, the water cycle and real economic value. All are universal facts that…
Can ScoMo escape Turnbull’s shadow?
Questions of causation are notoriously tricky as well as being highly susceptible to confirmation bias – in this context that…
Their ABC, Alyssa Milano and Sharia law
Anyone who spends too much time watching their ABC will see the relentless attack on Christianity playing out. It’s as…
Why still ban vaping if the no smoking strategy is failing?
Around 2.8 million people still smoke in Australia, and despite millions of taxpayers’ dollars spent on anti-smoking advertising, quit rates…
Trump cuckolds the Sheik of Araby
“I’m the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At night when you’re asleep Into your tent, I’ll creep.…
Medical regulator abandons political persecution
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) yesterday dropped its disgraceful investigation into social media activity of Toowoomba based GP,…
Milk is racist: official
PETA are at it again. But this time it’s not a dodgy ad-campaign using ‘titties and arse’ to save the…
Socialism will impoverish you, but it won’t solve climate change
Writing in The Guardian Australia, Geoff Sparrow is not the first person to call for a socialist “dictatorship of the…
Van Badham’s private fantasies
There is a peculiar class of journalists and public commentators who seem to make a living opining endlessly about the…
Mocking white males will never win respect
The Clementine Ford effect appears to be highly contagious. We are now living in a society where the supposed underdogs…
Resistance, I lived totalitarianism – and Trump’s no totalitarian
In a world that the identity politics has wrought, lived experience is a trump (apologies for the use of a…
Did George Soros buy you those koala suits, kids?
Have you ever wondered how much money is collected by those mobs of young men and women who patrol the…
Turnbull’s back – but his Labor supporters are gone
It would not be surprising if, in the aftermath of the Wentworth by-election, Coalition members mispronounced the name of the…
It’s a chill spring for our rickrack republicans
About as popular as Ebenezer Scrooge at Carols at Candlelight, only the most hardened of Twitter lefties can currently muster…
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