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Australia Offers Cautionary COVID Tale
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog highlights the latest evidence of Australia going mad. I used to think that Australians are a freedom-loving people, but that has turned out not…
Australians
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National Review Editor Calls Australia’s COVID Response ‘Insane’
Rich Lowry of National Review Online highlights his concern about one country’s response to COVID-19. The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a…
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Australians demonstrate international appeal of ‘Trumpism’
Thomas Lifson of the American Thinker documents interesting political developments Down Under. A global political realignment is underway, detaching workers from the Marxist left that ostensibly was created to serve…
Energy
Decrying ‘climate Stalinism’
Joel Kotkin writes for City Journal about climate alarmists’ disturbing tactics. The Left’s fixation on climate change is cloaked in scientism, deploying computer models to create the illusion of certainty.…
Elections & Public Integrity
Illegal collusion in the 2016 election … involving Bernie Sanders
Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller reports that one candidate in the 2016 presidential election actually engaged in illegal collusion with foreigners. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined Bernie Sanders’…
Health Care
Misusing health care statistics to call for more government involvement
Jonah Goldberg explains at National Review Online why it’s misleading to use life expectancy data to call for greater government control over American health care. Whenever the subject of health…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
National Review examines Australia’s decision to scrap the carbon tax
One suspects observers like Roy Cordato will appreciate this blurb from the latest print edition of National Review. Australians, having decided that they do not wish to become poor and…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Learning from the Australians
Rather than look to Europe for great public policy ideas, perhaps the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C., should turn their attention to Australia. They could start by considering this…
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An embarrassing editorial
The Al Gore groupie editorial in The News & Observer this morning is embarrassing in its naivete and dishonesty. Years from now, when some grad student or blogger finds it…
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Australia has them too
Aussies have their nation-hating, left-wing, rural white-despising folks too: What to do about the redneck problem? Should we deport this troublesome minority who are so out of step with the…
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Assessing NC State’s curriculum needs for greater diversity and comfort
If six people of a shared diversity demographic are sufficient reason to “include” that demographic’s “issues” in the curriculum, then according to its enrollment report of 20051, NC State has…
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Where’s the outrage?
This one sentence sums up the United Nations’ approach to peacekeeping, charity, and other niceties: If you’re going to rape prepubescent girls, make sure you’re wearing a blue helmet. That…