The wheels of justice grind slow, indeed. Still, a win against a corrupt, violent police force brutally enforcing unjust laws is a win for freedom, however belated. The only problem is that, in the interim, the fear of a police state is already instilled in the populace. After all, it
Here’s a first: a Muslim prayer room used as a hotbed of extremism. I’m sure that’s never happened before! I mean, it’s not as if places like Roselands Mosque in NSW have ever featured imams preaching, “Allah! Kill the Zionist Jews and purify al-Aqsa from Jewish
A newsreel shot during the North Africa campaign of WWII showed the famous Rats of Tobruk frying an egg on the hood of their vehicle. Even today, police on patrol in the Simpson Desert in Western Queensland can do the same. But all that’s a bit too much to
Back in the day, in my home town, a local financial institution collapsed spectacularly, leaving many working people out of pocket. Some of them, their life savings. Taxpayers in my home state were also stiffed nearly a billion dollars. Yet, as everyone in my home town knew, while the former
Many years ago, my wife and I were called to a meeting with the school principal, over an “incident” involving our son. He’d laid out another kid. Except, as it turned out, our son had been repeatedly bullied by the kid, given him plenty of warnings to back off,
History is littered with the corpses left behind by utopian revolutionaries. As Jordan Peterson points out, it’s pointless to condemn the grim toll of, say, the Maoists or the Stalinists, if we don’t forensically examine the ideologies that motivated their crimes and catastrophes. For instance, the Maoists insisted
An author acquaintance of mine recently put out a call for help: she’d been increasingly subject to decidedly creepy inquiries from ‘fans’. Put broadly, these covered everything from questions about her sex life to requests for photos of her young children. At the time, we thought she might have
Ann Coulter formulated her famous Law of Mass Shootings: The longer we go without being told the race of the shooter, the less likely it is to be a white male. It holds up pretty well, although it needs an addendum: The time it takes for a shooting to drop
The mainstream media are shocked, shocked, I tell you, that fewer people than ever trust them. Perhaps they might consider whether their growing litany of lies over recent years. Only recently, for instance, media from TV1, to NPR and Australia’s ABC, reported “The International Court of Justice finding a
It’s impossible to not be moved by the stirring hymn, “Jerusalem”. The hymn is, of course, the words of Christian mystic William Blake’s poem, And did those feet in ancient time… The poem was first set to music in 1917 by Sir Hubert Parry, and its most famous
Early in its history, the Earth was routinely bombarded with meteorites and even other planets. Thankfully for those of us who call it home, that cosmic smash-up derby has eased off over time. This is partly due to outer planets like Jupiter, and even our own Moon, acting as something
This is classic Maltese peasant food: hot and filling. A great winter warmer. Ingredients: * Plain flour (around 1/4 cup, as needed) * 6–8 lamb forequarter chops (pork chops can also be used, but trim some of the fat) * Plenty of cracked black pepper * Salt to taste * 4–6 medium/
Readers take note: April Fool’s Day was over a month ago, so it’s not a hoax when I write this: I finally agree with something Waleed Aly says. Long time BFD readers will know just what sort of contempt I hold for little Wally, but even a stopped
What is it with doddering old left-wing politicians savaging their countries’ closest allies? OK, granted, Bob Carr is retired from active politics, but his influence in Labor politics remains immense. So, when Carr attacks the New Zealand government over its possible joining of AUKUS, you can bet people in Labor
Once again student leftists are at the “find out” stage, after their latest outburst of fucking around. First, it was prestigious law firms going on record that they would decline to hire graduates of formerly prestigious Ivy League colleges: A number of large law firms have already signalled their increasing
