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tony abbott's downhill run .....Tony Abbott will be having a great holiday. He is no doubt luxuriating in one of France’s snowfield resorts – built by collaboration between business and strong unions.
would you kill the fat man .....At 4:13 in the morning on June 13, 1944, there was an explosion in a lettuce patch 25 miles southeast of London.
the dark ages .....The Abbottite heresy grows not just wickeder but crazier by the day.
public enemy no 1 .....
Over 12 years into the so-called "Global War on Terror," the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world.
I believe in Santa too .....Almost everyone on the left is paying close attention to Tim Wilson’s appointment to the Human Rights Commission. Even I have written about this outrage, this outrage I tell you. It is a sideshow compared to what is happening in the Australian Tax Office.
To Auld Lang SyneHere's a toast to Robert Burns, who taught to mark the time by writing a song to sing each year for the sake of Auld Lang Syne, for the past is filled with bad and good, the good should be remembered, and in the shade of Christmas, when we're well and true Decembered,
darwin was there...From Gunter Ratingaher (picture of tree regeneration, by Gunter Ratingaher).
a wedding gift from america .....The headline - "Bride and Boom!" - was spectacular, if you think killing people in distant lands is a blast and a half.
the con merchants .....from john passant ….
pass the coolaid .....
talking of entitlement .....
The US Senate voted Thursday night to authorize nearly $633 billion in military spending. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, which provides $552.1 billion for the regular military budget and $80.7 billion for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas contingency operations (OCO).
real anti-semitism .....The intellectual dishonesty of Israel’s supporters is appalling. But in some odd way, it is also understandable. How else could they respond to the massively growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign?
the seductive semantics of totalitarianism .....Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk to, and what we say.
the price of trust ....The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write, its chief executive said Monday, effectively ending two common industry practices that critics have long assailed as troublesome conflicts of interest.
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