Key phrase: “Free speech enables the power of scrutiny.”
Update: Pat Caddell, a Democrat on the media destruction of democracy.
H/T Catallaxy Files
Posts from ‘September, 2012’
Senator Stephen Conroy
The bloke is Communications Minister in the Gillard government, heap big poobah in intimidating free citizens.
Stevie isn’t exactly the natural born libertarian type. In fact, he seems pretty desperate to tell us all what to do. Senator Conroy is pretty anxious to bring Rupert Murdoch into line, the Murdoch papers criticise the government you see, [...]
Scrumpy
RAB’s posting below, with it’s prominent promotion of scrumpy, reminds me of the first time I ever had the pleasure of scoffing the stuff.
It was in about 1981, I was newly arrived in England and was still in sightseeing mode. One Sunday afternoon I went up to the British Museum to have a captains, and [...]
Childhood vaccinations
The state should not compel or restrict behaviour that does not impact on others via the initiation of force or the seizure or destruction of property. It is quite amazing just how many people give the state a pass to do things, that any other organisation or individual would be sanctioned or jailed for. This [...]
Morecambe and Wise…
No points for figuring which is which.
Our very own Paul Marks spent a few days with us at RAB&Ness Towers last week, and boy did we luck out with the weather, clear and fine every day. Had he come this week, when he planned to, we would have found some of the villages we travelled [...]
Global governance
What is Global Governance?
Easy, it’s global government, but the words are slimed with weasel in an attempt to make them more palatable.
When it comes to rich global elites, she would know:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Monday “One of the issues I have been preaching about around the world is collecting [...]
Sunday Night Thomas
Collected by Andrew Bolt:
Muslim leaders have vowed to discuss the offensive video from their U.N. platforms (at the UN General Assembly this week), sowing concern among free-speech activists of a fresh push toward an international law that would criminalize blasphemy…
Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has reiterated his demand from the United Nations [...]
Totalitarianism quiz
I saw one of these de-motivational posters a while back entitled “Fascism ~ it won’t be this obvious” or some such, against a picture of a line of imperial storm troopers.
And so, I got to thinking, what would it look like in the UK? But why think in the abstract when you can [...]
What’s your favourite pbuh?
Tim Blair is setting up a challenge, although, no prizes of course. Unless you think getting some murderous theo-fascist nutjob pissed off is prize enough.
Anyway, these guys who drink the Mo-Aid seem to be permanently pissed anyway, so what are they drinking, or, for those of us who need to know, what is the name [...]
Larry Pickering
Pickering was one of the worlds great political cartoonists in his heyday during the 70’s. Pickerings Jungle was a weekly read in the The Australian newspaper on Saturday mornings and his annual calendars, featuring full fronted, naked, and highly detailed caricatures of celebrities and politicians were a must buy on all sides of politics. Pity [...]
Another one bites the dust
Shock!!!!
I am left speechelss.
I must admit, I come and go these days, and I am not posting lengthy items, more short commentary, but I could not imagine deleting CCinZ, or even taking it down, ever.
Bye bye Devil, rest in peace.
You join a sadly growing list, but you helped define the new world.
No argument from me
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
H/T Tim Blair
November
Obama will win narrowly.
Why?
(a) Romney is useless. The rest were usually worse (apart from Gary Johnson) but Romney essentially proves the truth that in Land of the Blind the bloke with the Labrador is King.
(b) Obama has the media.
(c) Romney is gaffe-prone and is seen as a plutocrat who can’t be doing with the little-folk. [...]
Pat, full blast
To call these riots infantile and imbecilic is to give them a dignity they don’t deserve. They can only be described as Islamic….
All week we’ve heard Muslims telling we in the West that that we need to understand how important the prophet is to them. We do understand, and we don’t care.
