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Back to the Basement for Joe

Back to the Basement for Joe

Looks like it’s back to the basement for Senile Joe. The presidential incumbent and Democrat candidate for this year’s election has ducked out of a campaign visit to a battleground state, after testing positive for Covid. Which is odd, because Biden is fully boosted with the Covid vaccination,

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Donald Trump’s Big Week of Miracles

Donald Trump’s Big Week of Miracles

A week that could have been unimaginable disaster just gets better and better for Donald Trump. By literally dodging a bullet in Pennsylvania, Trump came up with the campaign photo for the ages. A bloodied Trump, fist raised in defiance against a backdrop of blue sky and American flag, has

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Is a Banger Tune More Important than a Baby’s Life?

One of the most jaw-dropping scary sights I’ve seen on the roads was passing a girl driving solo on Tasmania’s West Tamar highway. She had her head down, texting on her phone, with earbuds in. In other words, she was completely sensory-isolated from what was going on around

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Oh No! Anyway…

Oh No! Anyway…

I don’t know whether to laugh or quietly curse in disappointment. On the one hand, the first explicit attempt to leverage sectarian politics in Australia in half a century is allegedly imploding. On the other, a potentially fatal wedge against the Labor party is imploding. I’m talking, of

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Suck It Up, These Are the Rules You Wanted

Suck It Up, These Are the Rules You Wanted

Listening to independent journalist Tim Poole recently, he made a point about free speech which changed much of my previous thinking. Free speech, yes, Poole said. But only for people who actually believe in free speech. Free speech fundamentalism, advocating free speech even on behalf of people who avowedly do

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The Return of the Album

The Return of the Album

If you recall my review of When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, I’m not exactly the world’s biggest Billie Eilish fan. As I wrote at the time, it was fairly standard, slick, but oddly murky studio wizardry, propping up a performer distinguished only by her

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They’re Old and They Want It All

They’re Old and They Want It All

My readers know me only too well. As an astute BFD reader commented on my recent piece about the generationally divided, two-speed economy: I just said to my wife yesterday that it was about time for Lushy’s annual boomer baiting. Annual? I can and must do better than that.

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Let’s See If They Uphold the Law

Let’s See If They Uphold the Law

I’m not a huge fan of racial vilification laws (as distinct from incitement laws), such as Australia’s notorious Section 18C, but, if we must have them, then surely they must be equally applied to everyone? Yet, to date, there’s been a notable slant in the few prosecutions

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Oh, Give It a Rest, You Hypocrites

Spare us the hypocritical pearl-clutching of the elites. Yesterday, it was ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas finger-wagging about “misinformation” – even as she peddled gross misinformation of her own. Today, it’s the lefty politicians’ turn. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has warned that democracy in Australia is under attack from

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A Wedge Too Far for the Greens

A Wedge Too Far for the Greens

Sooner or later, lefties in a love-affair with Islam come unstuck. In the ’70s, it was the Iranian communists, supporting the Khomeinists against the Shah. Once the Khomeinists came to power, they immediately rounded up the communists and shot the lot of them. More recently, pathologically altruistic “asylum seeker advocates”

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The Media Need a Bigger Mirror

The Media Need a Bigger Mirror

Self-reflection, it must be said, is not one of the mainstream media’s strong points. They clutch their bodices when subscriptions and public trust in media go into free-fall. But, like Principal Skinner from The Simpsons, they refuse to countenance that the problem might be them. No, it’s the

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Those Were No Ordinary Rabbits!

Those Were No Ordinary Rabbits!

It’s one of the classic scenes of movie comedy: Tha’s nae ordinary rabbit! When Sorcerer Tim warns King Arthur and his questing knights that the way to the Grail lies through a cave “guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with

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Lying Media Don’t Make Your Nutty Theories True

Lying Media Don’t Make Your Nutty Theories True

The phenomenon known as “Gell-Mann Amnesia” is named after physicist Murray Gell-Mann. One day, Gell-Mann read an article on particle physics in a mainstream news publication and was aghast at how wrong it was about a subject he knew intimately. He was reading another article, on foreign affairs (which he

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Be One of the Brave Few

Be One of the Brave Few

In the German movie Das schreckliche Madchen (The Nasty Girl), a high school girl is determined to win an essay prize by writing about her little town’s brave resistance to the Nazis during the Third Reich. Everyone is delighted. But, as she delves deeper, she finds the terrible truth:

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The Longer They Lie the More We See It

The Longer They Lie the More We See It

It’s gaslighting on a massive scale. Ann Coulter’s Law writ far and wide. Propaganda of the dimensions and determination not seen since the Soviet Union or Maoist China. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

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