tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51298902012-01-16T09:44:43.906+10:00OF INTEREST (2)Emails and articles of interest are posted here by John Ray to make them more widely availableJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-20893557535202782392010-12-06T23:39:00.001+10:002010-12-06T23:39:29.119+10:00Brand for the Burning!Or: How I Became a ‘Scientific Racist’, a ‘Sex Realist’ and ‘The Paedophile’s Friend’ — and was thus censored by virtually everybody, suspended from teaching by edinburgh university and witch-hunted for 14 months by the ‘liberal’-left— The Bumper Book of Brandiana, including an intellectual history and key battles, 1st edition, 1997BY CHRIS (‘Mine’s a peach brandy’) JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-6827957354094227812010-12-05T21:00:00.000+10:002010-12-10T21:01:17.489+10:006. The Burt disaster, 1970-80 — Kamin, Gillie and Dorfman‘Crime’, not intelligence, was what others quite properly expected me to know about; as also ‘psychopathology’, my major teaching commitment when David Milton Vowles appointed me at Edinburgh. ^(David, though short of stature and having a high-pitched voice, was a highly intelligent man who bore his burden with excellent humour and was a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-73678121191081897612008-04-02T22:11:00.002+10:002008-04-03T10:39:37.753+10:00Hiram Caton defends his attack on Derek FreemanProf. Caton is referring to this. Despite his disclaimer, his amateur psychiatric speculations have been used to discredit Freeman and I think it is disingenuous to think that he intended anything other than that You comment on my evidence that Derek Freeman suffered the Narcissistic Personality Disorder seems to be based on an article by Peter JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-56297639696740687472007-08-05T17:45:00.001+10:002007-08-05T17:45:29.113+10:00The Legal Project to Defend Robert Spencer from CAIRNews from the Legal Project, Middle East Forum. Press release of August 2, 2007PHILADELPHIA - The Legal Project of the Middle East Forum announces its support of Robert Spencer and the Young America's Foundation (YAF), the latest victims of what appears to be a targeted intimidation and defamation campaign by the Council on American-Islamic JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-20494905247454216242007-07-06T08:17:00.000+10:002007-07-06T08:18:25.169+10:00"Out Of the Silence" – Book reviewA science fiction novel by Erle CoxReview by "Ken"Unusually for science fiction, this novel can be reviewed as much for its literary qualities as for its social and political commentary. The first few chapters are reminiscent of Neville Shute’s ‘A Far Country’ and the reader is quickly absorbed in the characters’ prosaic lifestyle and urbane relationships. The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-82693386452697178552007-05-14T09:10:00.001+10:002007-05-14T09:10:55.573+10:00Conflict puts Sacramento State University in a sorry stateBy Marcos Breton - "Sacramento Bee" ColumnistThe walls of a men's room are never good reading, especially when the message is:"Never hire a beaner to do a white man's job."Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez was the target of this vulgarity, which was discovered in late April scrawled near a Sequoia Hall toilet, and came to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-22286086780150252422007-03-08T16:46:00.001+10:002007-03-08T16:46:57.393+10:00A small protest against the Anti-War Cognitive Elites In Pasadena, CaliforniaBy Wayne Lusvardi Pasadena, California is known as a hot bed of anti-war sentiment. Its City Council adopted an anti-war resolution in 2003. When Senator John Kerry was stumping for Democrats before the November 2006 elections he made his infamous anti-war faux paus to a receptive audience at Pasadena City College ("if JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-11601898032513811642007-02-24T06:22:00.001+10:002007-02-24T06:35:25.477+10:00How many dimensions of personality? - The 'Big 5', the 'Gigantic 3' or the 'Comprehensive 6'?By: CHRISTOPHER R. BRAND.Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh,7, George Square,Edinburgh EH8 9JZ.From: Psychologica Belgica 4, 4, 257-275 (1994) Abstract Eighteen criticisms of the 'Five Factor Model' of personality (FFM) are indicated : there is too much variation for comfort in theJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1167281595114297372006-12-28T14:52:00.000+10:002006-12-28T14:53:15.130+10:00The Voice of the Neuter is Heard Throughout the LandThis article originally appeared in January on American Digest but was offline at the time of writing so I have posted it hereLIKE SOME HAGGARD CRACK WHORE banging on the door of a dealer's den willing to do anything , the hapless Joel ("I despise our troops") Stein has been passed randomly about the blogsphere in the last couple of days. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1161785773900406372006-10-26T00:15:00.000+10:002006-10-26T00:16:13.920+10:00GOOGLEBOMBDon't take too much notice of the post below. As you may or may not know, Leftist Chris Bowers from MyDD is organizing a massive Googlebomb for the 2006 elections. The sad reality is that is an effort that could, at least in a few close races, move a few hundred votes away from a Republican candidate to a Democrat. So, in an effort to level the playing field, John Hawkins has put JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1159403763153139052006-09-28T10:35:00.000+10:002006-09-28T11:03:45.016+10:00DEAR AMANDAI very rarely bother to fisk Leftist articles. It is much more interesting to spend my time looking at articles that endeavour to consider all the facts of a matter rather than looking at the very selective attention to the facts that characterizes Leftist writing. A reader has however drawn my attention to a typical bit of Leftist hate by Australian columnist Amanda Blair and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1155987619342531402006-08-19T21:39:00.000+10:002006-08-19T21:41:13.370+10:00Finally, a man worth killingA movie review of "King Arthur" -- reviewed by Jon N. HallFor some time now I've been boycotting Hollywood and therefore must wait for films to come to cable. So it is only recently that I have seen what might be the ultimate in Freedom films: 2004's King Arthur. I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do, but there's so much to commend it. First off, it's a very JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1154932934027472422006-08-07T16:41:00.000+10:002006-08-07T16:43:17.060+10:00Hey, I’m Anti-War, Too!By Arlene PeckJust because I am against war, doesn’t mean that I can’t see the necessity of fighting one... especially when I realize that I am watching a wave of savage 7th century barbarians climbing over the hill ready to kill everyone in sight. I just happen to be a little more basic in my thinking than what I am seeing in most of the press and for sure the political JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1153709060326357952006-07-24T12:43:00.000+10:002006-07-24T16:11:50.100+10:00 "duty, honor, country"DUTY'S CALLING: It's Our Duty to Replace the Word Beauty at the VA's New $4 Million "Landmark Gateway Plaza"By Robert L. RosebrockSince 1898, The United States Military Academy has had the words "Duty, Honor, Country" proudly emblazoned on its coat of arms and boldly engraved on some of its oldest buildings. The motto has become such a distinct code for military leadershipJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1150707730124150992006-06-19T19:01:00.000+10:002006-06-19T19:02:10.146+10:00The Utter Dysfunction of the United NationsA report written by "a concerned group of current and former UN employees" and emailed from IO Watch. Recently Mark Malloch Brown, deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said that "Middle America" did not know how the US is constructively engaged with the UN because of UN detractors and too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping over too JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1149470356021373172006-06-05T11:18:00.000+10:002006-06-05T11:19:16.033+10:00HATRED OF LIMBAUGHThe following two letters by enraged Leftist, Dennis Kostecki, appeared in "The Hawaii Tribune-Herald" A reply to the second one is given:Limbaugh's chumps April 16, 2006With a shrinking presidential approval rating, Rush Limbaugh is now telling his radio audience that more people listen to him than anyone else. A certain type tunes in fanatically to hear the word "liberalJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1147647045312474902006-05-15T08:50:00.000+10:002006-05-15T09:05:44.253+10:00"Racist supermarkets" at Syracuse University in New York It didn't happen on television. It went unreported by the local newspapers. But in the first months of the 2006 spring semester, a debate about race between Syracuse University students required the involvement of Judicial Affairs. In February, Melissa Samuels, a Day Hall resident adviser for the sixth floor and sophomore JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1147080335392854622006-05-08T19:25:00.000+10:002006-05-08T19:25:51.273+10:00Protesters call anti-bullying bill `vague,' say minorities aren't protectedBy Karla D. Shores South Florida Sun-Sentinel Education Writer Posted April 18 2006 Human rights supporters rallied against what they called a "vague" anti-bullying bill Monday afternoon, claiming the legislation leaves the most vulnerable students, such as gays and minorities, unprotected.Protesters said the proposed JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1145355770045024162006-04-18T20:13:00.000+10:002006-04-18T20:26:08.983+10:00THE UNBEARABLE FLEXIBILITY OF BELIEFS: SCANDINAVIAN FELLOW TRAVELERSBy: Lennart Sjöberg(Center for Risk Research, Stockholm School of Economics. E-mail: lsjoberg@fastmail.fm) AbstractThis paper is about the political psychology of opportunism and risk denial. The concept of fellow travelers is applied to the analysis of four Scandinavian writers (three of them very well-known locally) who JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1145262489759266072006-04-17T18:17:00.000+10:002006-04-18T10:08:53.216+10:00Men as wimps or vicious villains, women as innocent victimsBy: Lennart Sjöberg(Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. E-mail: lsjoberg@fastmail.fm)AbstractGender-based prejudice is an important factor in human misery. Its roots are manifold, but one is found in media, in particular in entertainment movies. In the present paper, several movies, conceived in a misoandric mood, are discussed. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1144760567415176342006-04-11T23:01:00.000+10:002006-04-11T23:02:47.433+10:00AN ANTI-BUSH RANTYour challenge is to guess its origin. Answer below"As you will soon discover, this letter does not fixate on a single topic or subject. To be perfectly frank and honest, it started out rather focused but I soon found, as I worked on my primary hypothesis and sought corroboration from other sources, that I have quite a number of different things to say about Bush. For most of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1138316069257809702006-01-27T08:54:00.000+10:002006-01-27T10:37:02.900+10:00TRYWORKS TRYING HARDERMy goodness! My derisive comments about the vituperative Leftist "Tryworks" site had a most unexpected result. I actually stimulated them to temporary politeness! What I said must have really hit home. I reproduce below an email I recently received from their "John Moredock" (a.k.a. Ward Churchill?). I reproduce it as an out-of-character curiosity, not because I JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1138071030004179322006-01-24T12:50:00.000+10:002006-01-24T16:29:55.640+10:00CHUCKMAN CHUCKS UP AGAINMy recent post about the hate-filled Canadian John Chuckman got a speedy email rejoinder from the chuckful one. I cannot find the rejoinder online at the moment so I reproduce it below for the entertainment of all. The sender of the email was Joe Budtz, so whether Chuckman=Budtz I do not know. Maybe Joe is just a kindly soul who wanted to keep me up to date with the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1136519360822117702006-01-06T13:47:00.000+10:002006-01-06T13:49:20.840+10:00MY DUTCH CORRESPONDENT ON "AUTHENTICITY"My expatriate Dutch correspondent sent me an interesting comment on the Netherlands which I put up below on 4th. He now weighs in on the comparison between Australians and Americans in respect of "authenticity". He has lived in America for a long time so his is a well-informed outsider's view. He is initially referring to this post:"Visiting a country JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1136381450362717442006-01-04T23:30:00.000+10:002006-01-04T23:30:50.376+10:00AN EXPATRIATE DUTCHMAN ON THE NETHERLANDSFrom a regular correspondent who was moved to comment by my reference here to this stupid site It's rare to see such a muddle-headed, poorly written trash site. The guy thinks it's important to mention he is a Drs., which means roughly he has an M.A. in something. (Doctorandus = someone who is to ready to go for a doctorate or Ph.D but the title implies noJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1135845030054494602005-12-29T18:29:00.000+10:002005-12-31T13:16:37.740+10:00HISPANIC IQI recently had an interesting correspondence with the heroic Steve Sailer -- who makes a business out of discussing those things that establishment intellectuals regard as unmentionable -- i.e. human differences generally and IQ in particular. Steve and I agree on many things but disagree on Hispanic IQ. Briefly, the IQ studies show average Hispanic IQ to be somewhere between black JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1129886520188472182005-10-21T19:20:00.000+10:002005-10-21T19:22:00.196+10:00AN INFANTILE CULTUREBy: "Just an old man"In the USA, we have the answer. It is used as a slogan for a famous national retail firm: "I don't want to grow up. I'm a Toys R' Us Kid!"That is the answer. Or you could listen to The Wall, a famous protest song in which the singer whines that 'we don't need no education'. In a world where life is easy, it is a sore temptation for many people to reject JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1127802398001032232005-09-27T16:26:00.000+10:002005-09-27T16:26:38.013+10:00PERENNIAL CHILDREN By Nils DahlI recently restarted my studies of this most curious animal called homo sapiens. I just wanted to understand why people behave the way they do. I figured it out. All of it. Unfortunately, it all agrees with theories I formed as a young teenager while observing others in school. First a bit of background. My iq has been measured as something like 170. Probably JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-50820276349605193612005-09-25T17:42:00.000+10:002007-04-23T17:43:53.360+10:00 Rethinking the White Australia Policy By Andrew Fraser*[Not even scholars challenging the orthodox view that the White Australia Policy was a "racist" blot on the nation's honour support suggestions that its abolition was a catastrophic mistake. An unshakeable consensus among managerial, professional, political and academic elites in favour of racial egalitarianism has prevented a long overdue JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1127023713119134342005-09-18T16:07:00.000+10:002005-09-18T16:08:33.130+10:00A Story from an Old Connecticut Swede In early 1941, the old man was born. He lived and still lives in Wethersfield, a town that has its own unique and amusing history. But this is about barbers.During World War II, Ralph and Gus arrived in Wethersfield. They set up a barber shop. Both were Italian immigrants -- and very good barbers. They cut children's hair for 25 cents. The old man got his JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1123247918845604962005-08-05T23:18:00.000+10:002005-08-05T23:18:38.853+10:00SUMMARY OF A NEW BOOK: Top 10 Politically Correct Myths About Islam and the Crusades by Robert Spencer(Available from Human Events)PC MYTH: The Qur'an teaches believers to take up arms only in self-defensePOLITICALLY INCORRECT (PIC) TRUTH: if a country is perceived to be hindering the spread of Islam, Muslims are obliged to wage war against it. This would, of course, be a defensive conflict, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1122381785879675812005-07-26T22:42:00.000+10:002005-07-26T22:43:05.886+10:00SOME NEW THOUGHTS ABOUT CATSNew to me anyway. The following email is from "Dr. GoodCat":I am a practising veterinarian in Australia, and regrettably wish to remain anonymous - my profession manages dissenting views poorly. This is the situation: I have viewed thoroughly analysed and robust statistics which declare, very plainly, that people own fewer and fewer cats every year in Australia. TheJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1121148130074412232005-07-12T16:01:00.000+10:002005-07-13T00:32:17.476+10:00When Does the Hug-in Begin?By Arlene PeckI have a friend, Shila, who always manages to find herself in relationships with men who `drink a little too much' or are always coming up a day late or a dollar short. Yet, despite my telling her that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear, she finds the silver lining in their lack of character.The reason I mention this now folks, is that England JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1119440283099286492005-06-22T21:37:00.000+10:002005-06-22T21:38:03.106+10:00WHY ARE SO MANY JEWS LEFT-LEANING?I have received some interesting comments in response to my post about the motivations of Jewish Leftists. I reproduce two of them below:[Sayet] cannot understand why American Jews are so Left-leaning when the Left is so antisemitic. But again what we see there is a claim: "We are superior -- We are not like all those ignorant Goyim who infest the place". So JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1115082164498310022005-05-03T10:55:00.000+10:002005-05-03T11:05:19.010+10:00Why I distrust liberalism:By Jason Depew At a brief glance, liberalism appears very noble and altruistic. I believe that people who are liberals truly do elicit genuine concern for humanity. Some common topics of liberal interest are concern for the environment, concern for the welfare of all members of a population, and a hope that all people of the world can have access to certain things in JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-60613468373067722492005-04-29T20:57:00.000+10:002007-04-29T20:58:34.791+10:00Reminiscences about an enormously influential leader of an Australian State governmentUnder the heading “How Joh kept his chooks well fed”, Allen Callaghan reminisces about a man whom I am proud to say I voted for repeatededly – the Premier of Queensland, Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen Joh Bjelke-Petersen was one of the first television politicians in Australia. Unlike most of his state and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1114390736272737802005-04-25T22:58:00.000+10:002005-04-25T10:58:56.273+10:00ONE AUSTRALIAN'S ANZAC-DAY DAWN SERVICEBy Helen ChambersMorning assembly on an asphalt playground, salute the flag, sing God Save the King, recite the Lord's Prayer, then the bell for morning lessons, then a half-holiday... the memories of my lastAnzac Day ceremony more than 50 years ago. Never having been to a dawn service and now living in Perth, I decided to go to the ceremony at the War JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1113343550479987372005-04-13T08:05:00.000+10:002005-04-13T08:05:50.483+10:00The poor get poorer under Gordon BrownBy: Fraser Nelson and Allister Heath April 3, 2005 12:00 AM (GMT) BRITAIN's poorest 10% of households are becoming even poorer, according to devastating official figures revealing that Chancellor Gordon Brown's tax-and-spend agenda is hurting Middle Britain while failing to help the most vulnerable.The poorest 5.8m Britons are the only group whose take-home JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1110590392244336962005-03-12T11:19:00.000+10:002005-03-13T07:56:21.443+10:00THE NEW U.S. BANKRUPTCY LAWThe new bankruptcy bill, which now looks like becoming law, has attracted enemies among both Leftists and Rightists (see e.g. here and here and here and here and here). There seems to be a general view that it is too harsh. I disagree. I think it is not tough enough. I do not see why anybody should EVER be discharged from bankruptcy until they have paid their debts.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1106620753476522272005-01-25T12:38:00.000+10:002005-01-30T19:06:08.056+10:00
PERCHLORATE PARANOIA PERCOLATING IN PASADENA: Misperceiving "Malign Intent"
By Wayne Lusvardi
Newspaper columns in Southern California newspapers are bubbling with a new paranoia from those on the left side of the political spectrum about the recently released new safety guidelines for perchlorate in drinking water recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. The suspicion is that the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1105614630140758062005-01-13T21:09:00.000+10:002005-01-13T21:10:30.140+10:00LEFT/RIGHT DIFFERENCES
Below is a list of 25 differences between the Left and Right. This list is culled from more than a 100 found in the bipartisan book “The Political Junkie Handbook” by Michael Crane (mrcrane@politicaljunkie.org)
THE ISSUE: LEFT/RIGHT
Abortion: My Body, My Choice / It's a Child, Not a Choice
Animal Rights: "A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy" / Man is the Pinnacle of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1104213579013751682004-12-28T15:59:00.000+10:002004-12-28T15:59:39.013+10:00DENYING ANTISEMITISM
One of my readers has sent in the following Fisking:
Tony Judt writes in The Nation ("Goodbye To All That" Dec 16, 2004):
"'Anti-Semitism' today is a genuine problem. It is also an illusory problem. The distinction between the two is one of those contemporary issues that most divide Europe from the United States. The overwhelming majority of Europeans abhors recent JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1103165426100840122004-12-16T12:49:00.000+10:002004-12-16T12:50:26.100+10:00QUIGGIN AND FRIEND
Further to my post immediately below, I have received a rather moving email from Joe Cambria, whom, as I have already indicated, I regard as a very decent man. I reproduce it below to give readers a fuller perspective on the matter that Prof. Quiggin has raised with me.
According to Quiggin, I am now not only a racist but a cyberstalker as well. This comes from a man who: 1.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1102720803594410442004-12-12T03:19:00.000+10:002004-12-11T12:20:16.733+10:00AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE
On 8th December I published an email from Joe Cambria that was critical of Prof. John Quiggin of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. See here. On 10th I received an email from Prof. Quiggin which described Cambria's email as inaccurate and misleading and asking me to delete it from my blog. I replied as follows:
"It seems to me that the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1101438133126346152004-11-26T13:01:00.000+10:002004-11-26T13:02:13.126+10:00Swan sets sights on winning the wealthy, too
By: Steve Lewis, Katharine Murphy
LABOR'S future economic policies will be tailored to enrich the affluent as much as the poor, opposition Treasury spokesman Wayne Swan has declared. In his first major speech since taking over the portfolio, Mr Swan said he hoped to "proudly reclaim" Labor's economic reform agenda of the 1980s, including further JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1101216339097118812004-11-23T23:25:00.000+10:002004-11-23T23:32:08.773+10:00SCIENCE ROUNDUP BY LOUIS HISSINK
This was originally published in the SMERSH section of the Henry Thornton website but has since been taken down
This week's science round up continues in the climate area (what else) though interested readers are advised not to do a Google on "Climate Change" lest they become depressed with the overwhelming doom and gloom peddled by the Greens and the mesmerisedJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1099896749560579562004-11-08T16:52:00.000+10:002004-11-08T16:56:17.920+10:00On 3rd., I commented here about the 100,000 post-invasion civilian deaths in Iraq that Leftists are at present claiming. Wayne Lusvardi has put together some additional commentary -- given hereunder. I also repeat my own prior comments on the matter after that:
The Death of the Leftist Death Count in Iraq
Because keeping track of how many people have been actually killed in Iraq due to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1099215904932879552004-10-31T19:44:00.000+10:002004-10-31T19:45:04.933+10:00Paranoid Leftist Watch
By Wayne Lusvardi, Pasadena, CA, USA
John Pilger, a journalist, film maker, war correspondent, and Cornell University visiting professor, who has won Britain's highest journalism award and the U.N. Association Media Peace Prize, poses the question in the November 1 issue of the Leftist-Marxist New Statesman, "Will There Be a War Against the World After November 2?" (SeeJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1098760638641121872004-10-26T13:16:00.000+10:002004-10-26T13:21:42.933+10:00FDR PAVED THE WAY
For The Record - Which President Got the U.S., U.K. and Aussies Into Iraq?
By Wayne Lusvardi, Pasadena, California.
What secret meeting between a U.S. President and a Saudi Arabian king to cut a deal over oil resulted in 9-11 and the Iraq War? The place was aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Suez Canal. The Saudi king was Abd Aziz Ibn Saud (see Wikipedia.com "King_Saud"). The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1097721584161104392004-10-14T12:39:00.000+10:002004-10-14T12:43:59.486+10:00Socialism: a Highway to Hell
The article below was originally written by Brazilian blogger Luis Afonso Assumpcao on his site "Nadando contra a mare ... vermelha" ("Swimming against the [Red] tide") and was subsequently reproduced on a much visited Brazilian conservative site called "Midia sem mascara" ("Unmasked Media"). It is reproduced below in a rough translation from the Portuguese.
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1097468549547807162004-10-11T14:21:00.000+10:002004-10-11T14:22:29.546+10:00THE CENSORED STOSSEL PROGRAM:
The program summary reproduced below was taken off their servers by ABC after only two days. It is reposted here to make sure it stays available. The reason it was taken down is made clear in the internal ABC staff memo also reproduced below:
Lawyers and the Little Guy
How Helpful Were V.P. Hopeful Edwards’ Courtroom Triumphs?
Commentary
By John Stossel
JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1097221621882301102004-10-08T18:46:00.000+10:002004-10-08T17:49:31.666+10:00SWEDISH COMMUNISTS PLEAD IGNORANT
One of my readers -- a New Zealander living in Sweden -- has sent me the following email:
I thought you might be interested in the following article from a large Swedish newspaper (Goteborgs Posten, GP for short), which I translated from Swedish since I doubt an English version would exist.
Background: The Left Party here has gotten itself into a bit of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1096713195406952312004-10-02T20:32:00.000+10:002004-10-02T20:33:15.406+10:00John Kerry Made At Least 16 Inaccurate Statements During Last Night's Debate
Kerry Inaccurately Claimed Cuts In Homeland Security Funding Caused NYC Subway To Be Closed During The RNC Convention. "In an early exchange about homeland security, Kerry got it wrong when he claimed President Bush's cuts in funding for infrastructure protection was 'why they had to close down the subway in New York JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1096448896995945912004-09-29T19:07:00.000+10:002004-09-29T19:08:16.996+10:00You won't hear about THIS on the evening news!
Last week, on Tuesday, our school had a field trip to see President Bush speak at the Farm Progress Show in Alleman, Iowa. It was even educational ( ! ) to learn about all the security we had to go through at the outdoor event. It was a typical campaign stop for the President. He spoke for 45 minutes, much of his speech was about agriculture JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1096265179600507692004-09-27T16:05:00.000+10:002004-09-27T16:06:19.600+10:00VILLAIN OR VICTIM
He might have left office four years ago, but Bill Clinton would still like to settle some old scores. Here, for the first time, he shares with Australian Journalist of the Year, Peter Wilson, his theory on exactly who tried to get him out of the White House
Bill Clinton is sitting in a London hotel suite, calmly naming the man who set in motion the "vast right-wing JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-14381896773200129362004-09-20T15:00:00.000+10:002007-05-16T15:01:05.417+10:00A stranger unto himself By Christopher Pearson: IF Mark Latham becomes prime minister in three weeks, it will be the first time the public has installed someone in the Lodge whom it barely knows. There have been a few print and television profiles, Michael Duffy's biography and some instant books. But surprisingly little serious attention - as opposed to journalistic puffery - has been devoted toJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1094449728624542352004-09-06T18:47:00.000+10:002004-09-06T15:48:48.623+10:00MIND GAMES ON IRAQ THOUGHTS
Two critics attempt to find explanations for the policies of John Howard and George Bush
Book reviews of:
True Believer: John Howard, George Bush and the American Alliance
By Robert Garran, Allen & Unwin, 229pp, $24.95
Bush on the Couch
By Justin A. Frank, Regan Books, 247pp, $39.95
Reviewed by Stephen Matchett
FOR opponents of the war against Iraq, George Bush JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1094364340619697902004-09-05T16:04:00.000+10:002004-09-05T16:05:40.620+10:00SOME LETTERS FROM THE "PASADENA WEEKLY" of Sept. 4th, 2004
Looking up?
In his acceptance speech John Kerry said he wanted the United States to be "looked up to, not feared."
Sorry, wrong number. We are at war. A different war than we've ever fought. A war we didn't start, but one we have to finish - before our enemies bring their filthy jihad to our shores again.
That enemy has command JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1093870184892231042004-08-30T22:49:00.000+10:002004-08-30T23:13:21.443+10:00What made the Unabomber tick?
by Wayne Lusvardi
Review of: Alston Chase, A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Rise of Modern Terrorism (2003)
Just as an organism in a Petri dish can not be understood in isolation from the liquid environment which sustains it, in Alston Chase's A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Rise of Modern Terrorism (2003) we JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1089038195836292342004-07-06T00:36:00.000+10:002004-07-06T00:36:35.836+10:00HITLER AND SEX
What follows is an extract from the 1938 edition of 'Inside Europe' by John Gunther:
"Attitude Toward Women"
He is totally uninterested in women from any personal sexual point of
view. He thinks of them as housewives and mothers or potential mothers,
to provide sons for the battlefield – other people's sons.
"The life of our people must be freed from the asphyxiating perfume ofJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1088725239643023442004-07-02T09:40:00.000+10:002004-07-02T09:41:00.513+10:00Bunk Science
Book review:
Jack W. Dini, Challenging Environmental Mythology: Wrestling Zeus (Scitech Books, 2003), 207 pages, $29.95 list Amazon.com; $19.95 Laissez Faire Books LFB.com; $12.50 used Amazon.com (7/1/04).
Remember the science news story that bird eggs would not survive in the wild because of spraying DDT? Jack W. Dini, a materials engineer with Lawrence Livermore National JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1088573432002364632004-06-30T15:30:00.000+10:002004-06-30T15:30:32.003+10:00Start protecting children rather than Islam
On Shabina Begum and child veiling
By Maryam Namazie
Shabina Begum, a 15 year old who has refused to go to school for the past several years because her school in Luton, England won't allow her to wear a jilbab (chador-like garment) claims that her rights have been breached. Of course her rights have been breached but not because she has been JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1088160717322192632004-06-25T20:51:00.000+10:002004-06-25T21:24:56.683+10:00Islamophobia
(This is an email circulated by Iftikhar Ahmad of the London School of Islamics: www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk. A reply by R.C. follows Mr Ahmad's disquisition:)
Islamophobia and Arabophobia has been part of western culture since the Crusades, with Saddam and Osama only the latest in a long line of Arab bogeymen. The real reason for the current spate of Islamophobia is the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1087191427198588292004-06-14T15:36:00.000+10:002004-06-14T15:37:07.196+10:00Europe errs in choice of foes
By Per Ahlmark
Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and anti-Americanism are becoming linked and ever more rabid in today's Europe. They arise from a kind of blindness, combined with a strange mixture of alienation, guilt and fear towards both Israel and the US. Millions of Europeans resist seeing Israel as a country fighting for its survival. Israel cannot afford to loseJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1087124736979920882004-06-13T21:05:00.000+10:002004-06-13T21:05:36.980+10:00Abuse alarm bells rang too late
By Richard Sproull
THREE months after Ian George was installed as Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide in June 1991, an Adelaide Hills priest was arrested on serious charges of gross indecency towards two boys. The Archbishop personally took charge of the case and spoke several times to the mother of the boys. On one occasion, she claims Dr George told her the priest JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1087124700328624742004-06-13T21:04:00.000+10:002004-06-13T21:05:00.326+10:00Pearson slams justice advocate
By Leisa Scott
ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has accused social justice advocate Father Frank Brennan of expecting Aborigines to eschew materialism, even though his own relatives are "successful and high-earning lawyers and professionals". Calling Father Brennan "part of an old Catholic, Labor social-justice ... tradition", Mr Pearson said the Jesuit lawyer was JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1086692212094165402004-06-08T20:56:00.000+10:002004-06-08T20:56:52.093+10:00SOME REAL MIDDLE-EASTERN STUDIES
I was forwarded a copy of this email but have changed some details to preserve the anonymity of the author
I was asked for my file on Columbia University and their ‘liberal’ administration and their ‘liberal’ Middle Eastern department by alumnae off to attend this weekend’s alumnae fete. This was the response I made, along with my file on Columbia’s anti-IsraelJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1085968617479066332004-05-31T11:56:00.000+10:002004-05-31T11:56:57.480+10:00Language as clear as mud
By Sue Wighton
I was in our office at home the other day when my daughter was writing her latest High school English assignment -- an editorial. I happened to glance idly at the accompanying criteria sheet. This is the tool used by the poor, hapless teacher charged with assessing the efforts of the students. And what I found there sent a chill up my spine.
With JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1085348590752440642004-05-24T07:42:00.000+10:002004-05-24T07:43:10.753+10:00FALLACI SPEAKS
Below are some paragraphs from Oriana Fallaci's new book LA FORZA DELLA
RAGIONE (FORCE OF REASON) -- translated by Pieter Uys:
L'espansione dell'Islam non avrebbe infatti raggiunto l'attuale aggressività
se avesse incontrato un'opinione pubblica, una classe politica, una cultura
capaci di reagire e di salvaguardare con orgoglio il bene supremo di una
civiltà: la propria JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1084929667874644872004-05-19T11:20:00.000+10:002004-05-19T11:21:07.873+10:00LATINATE LANGUAGES A COSTLY OBSESSION
By Neil James
A few years ago, a book of essays analysed the cultural exchange between Asia and Australia. Its editors sought academic and general readers to stimulate debate about Australia's relationship with the region. The book's publication was timely, just as John Howard was reorienting Australia's foreign policy. Yet much of its writing was like JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1084602963515585042004-05-15T16:35:00.000+10:002004-05-15T16:36:03.516+10:00 Are The Bishops Folding On Gay Marriage?
CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter May 14, 2004
This could be big news. You're probably familiar with the current move in Congress to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) to the Constitution. With activist judges in states like Massachusetts beginning to rule in favor of homosexual marriage -- against the will of the general public -- many areJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1084106548627108852004-05-09T22:42:00.000+10:002004-05-09T22:46:51.686+10:00AUSTRALIAN ANTISEMITISM IS MOSTLY ISLAMIC
An email from an Australian reader:
Near my home in Sydney's beachside Eastern suburbs is a Jewish private school looking after children from kindergaten to high school level.
In recent years the school has had to employ a private security company to guard the property and oversee the pick up and drop off of these young children on their way to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1083898955915494622004-05-07T13:02:00.000+10:002004-05-07T13:07:16.700+10:00BOOK REVIEW: How Democracies Lose Small Wars : State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
by Gil Merom
Reviewed by Wayne Lusvardi
How Democracy Loses Small Wars is one of the most-timely, but unrecognized books dealing with the so-called “quagmire” and “war prisoner abuse” situations the U.S. has encountered in Iraq in early JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-17592525117361917682004-05-02T15:35:00.000+10:002007-04-23T15:36:00.410+10:00Grand Designs How 9/11 Unified Conservatives in Pursuit of Empire By Corey RobinIn 2000 I spent the tail end of the summer interviewing conservative patriarchs William F. Buckley and Irving Kristol. I was writing about the defections to the left of several younger right-wing intellectuals and wondered what the conservative movement's founding fathers thought of their wayward sons. But Buckley andJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-83280580038030508422004-04-30T14:31:00.000+10:002007-05-16T14:32:59.729+10:00How Watson shaped Australia's Labor PartyAustralia's Labor Party governments followed the foundations laid down by the party's first prime minister. Note that it was the Labor party that was most racist in the early 20th centuryDemocracy took root in Australia faster than in any other nation on earth, a reality affirmed 100 years ago yesterday when the first federal Labor government began JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1081540658291380372004-04-10T05:57:00.000+10:002004-04-10T06:01:21.873+10:00
Economic inequality is not to blame for global terrorism
A typical Leftist bleat: Below is an excerpt of a letter from Frances Stewart (Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity, University of Oxford) published in The Financial Times on 19th March 2004 under the heading "Terrorism will thrive while economic JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1080984756117721352004-04-03T19:32:00.000+10:002004-04-03T19:36:11.530+10:00Catch 22-Privacy
By: Dick McDonald
The Democratic party and their elite media is posing a catch 22 in fighting terrorism. At every turn, the Bush administration is being blamed by them for not doing enough in fighting domestic terrorism yet the same left-wing is blocking every effort by the administration to improve our intelligence-gathering capabilities. If the terrorists successfully mount aJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1080950205838529672004-04-03T09:56:00.000+10:002004-04-03T10:01:35.293+10:00Victacrats Forced To Work
By: Dick McDonald
There is no greater sin a Republican can visit on a Democrat than a government reform that works and releases the Democrat party faithful from victimhood and reliance on the dole provided by their prison guards, the Democratic Party. Such is the case of welfare reform brought to you by the Republican juggernaut that took over Congress in 1994.
The JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1080809587286619802004-04-01T18:53:00.000+10:002004-04-01T18:56:39.716+10:00Muslims Are Responsible
By Dick McDonald
Ignacio Sosa of Boston's letter to the Wall Street Journal of March 31st:
"The real question isn't whether Israel was justified or not in killing Sheik Yassin, the so-called spiritual leader of Hamas. Rather, it is why the Islamic world does not question what kind of spirituality could be used to justify the senseless slaughter of innocents. There JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1080552011112337332004-03-29T19:20:00.000+10:002004-03-29T19:23:40.060+10:00
Bastante Bueno
(Good Enough)
By Martin E.P. Seligman
(On the occasion of receiving the PhD honoris causae
Universidad Complutense Madrid
January 28, 2004)
I want to thank you for bestowing on me one of the greatest honors of my professional life. To have a doctorate from this ancient University that has contributed so much to the culture of Spain and the world is for me a dream come JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1080381302865848872004-03-27T19:55:00.000+10:002004-03-27T19:58:28.733+10:00
John's First Steps
By: Dick McDonald
John Kerry is now the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. He will face George Bush in November in what the elite media believes will be a tight race. Unfortunately for John and his party, his first few weeks as their titular head have been unimpressive to say the least.
How he allowed his minions to sponsor the "Richard Clarke" attack on the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1079321537274020462004-03-15T13:32:00.000+10:002004-03-15T13:35:27.403+10:00Lick, Lick, Lick
By Dick McDonald
Imminent Threat
Bush never said Iraq was an imminent threat. Democrats and their lick-boots in the media did and continue to flood us with that lie. What Bush said was that when a country is an imminent threat, it is too late. When a country supports and breeds terrorism like Iraq did, pre-emption is the advisable course. Maybe that is too sophisticated a JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1078642689058261702004-03-07T16:58:00.000+10:002004-03-07T17:01:08.340+10:00
Freedom is its own Reward
(Abuses of freedom by the media)
By Dick McDonald
Freedom in America, unfortunately, is not freedom from the lies and distortions of its mainstream press, their TV allies, the Democratic party and their pimping pundits nor from the Hollywood and Manhattan's gliterrati. Entering an extended campaign season all should get ready for a steady stream of fabrications JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-18388804503330760682004-02-26T23:32:00.000+10:002007-04-30T23:33:28.819+10:00 Why I won't change By Andrew BoltYes, I've heard that I'm evil. Wicked. Racist, too, which stings, given all my life I've proudly thought I was the opposite. Last Sunday, for instance, a journalist on the ABC TV's Insiders panel turned to me and, voice rising in rage, damned my works to hell. "I have to say that what you wrote this week was destructive bile-ridden drivel," she said, just JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1077617527816556492004-02-24T20:12:00.000+10:002004-02-24T20:14:52.076+10:00THE PEACENIK CANDIDATE
By Dick McDonald
It is an absolute truth that you can't fight a war with a weapon you don't have. With that in mind it boggles the mind to think that the Democratic Party would put forth a candidate that has voted against most of the weapons the US presently fights wars with.
Sen. Kerry Voted Against B-1 Bomber. (S. 3189, CQ Vote #273: Passed 79-16: R 37-5; D 42-11, 10/JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1077269317587549912004-02-20T19:28:00.000+10:002004-02-20T19:32:38.530+10:00TWO LISTS
Compare the following two lists. The top list of 19 slogans is currently being circulated on the net by Democrats and indicates their approach to the upcoming Presidential campaign will be based on abuse and appeals to emotion. The bottom list - entitled "The First 28 Questions for Kerry" - was originally published in the Washington Post by conservative columnist George Will. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1076973483072683552004-02-17T09:18:00.000+10:002004-02-17T09:20:37.373+10:00"The Haves" and "The Have Nots"
By: Eleanor French Spreitzer
(Columbus, Ohio)
That sounds so simple and clear.
But has anyone ever really thought about it.
"Have" what??? "Have Not" what???
There is really only one answer. It's Education. You and your children either have a great education or you and your children have not a great education.
But the people using that phase want us to thinkJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1076662160506550062004-02-13T18:49:00.000+10:002004-02-13T18:51:49.560+10:00Book Review: Lee Harris, Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History (Free Press, 2004)
After 9/11 most of us sought out answers to who the perpetrators of this mass murder were, what was their motivation, and what was the bigger picture of what this meant. The conspiracy theorists, both from the political Right and the Left, were the first to offer answers. Most of these answers JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1075802875413183552004-02-03T20:07:00.000+10:002004-02-03T20:10:48.670+10:00Junking DDT
PROFESSOR Andrew Thompson and Alan Lymbery accuse me of recycling "nonsense" in my Quadrant article that holds environmental groups accountable for a malaria pandemic in Africa. In support of my argument I cite Donald Roberts, Professor of Tropical Public Health at the US Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, who refutes Rachel Carson's DDT thesis. I quote Professor JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-36909553636240948862004-02-02T22:38:00.000+10:002007-04-23T23:39:22.780+10:00How Nazis went to war in AustraliaBy DAVID ENGLISHNAZIS in Queensland have not died out completely. But they have become a shadow of their former selves and exist mostly on the Internet. The swastika-wearing extremists are back in the headlines with revelations in The Sunday Mail last weekend that a National Party candidate in the state election once mixed with Australian Nazi Party members. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-14934910984783541052004-02-01T15:30:00.000+10:002007-04-23T15:31:02.260+10:00Conspiracies so vast Conspiracy theory was born in the Age of Enlightenment and has metastasized in the Age of the Internet. Why won't it go away? By Darrin M. McMahonHOWARD DEAN SPECULATES on National Public Radio that George W. Bush may have been warned of 9/11 "ahead of time by the Saudis." University professors imply with an air of sophistication that the war in Iraq was a plot to fill JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1075413222376886042004-01-30T07:53:00.000+10:002004-01-30T07:55:52.200+10:00Israel’s Revolving Door
Arlene Peck
Have they lost their minds? Israel has let out another four? Five? hundred more terrorists. For what? The remains of three dead soldiers and one live businessman with dubious ties and who shouldn’t have been there in the first place? And, who apparently is under suspicion of engaging in drug deals at the time he was taken captive. Truly, I think the powers JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1074819362032644752004-01-23T10:56:00.000+10:002004-01-23T10:58:02.716+10:00EXPLANATION FOUND TO BE WRONG: HOW BORING!
Further to my posting below about the politics of science, a medical specialist sent me the email following. It highlights the throroughly anti-scientific attitude prevalent among academic journal editors to the effect that “negative results” are uninteresting. Yet scientific progress DEPENDS on disproving wrong notions. So if the disproofs are JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1074756439982302712004-01-22T17:27:00.000+10:002004-01-22T17:29:20.123+10:00MORE ON THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE
The “Global Warming” furore has strongly focused attention on WHY scientists conclude what they do. Many scientists say this poorly-supported theory is right and many reject it. Yet the “Pro” camp are presented as the othodoxy. So why the disagreement? Shouldn’t the facts decide? The obvious answer is that the global warming theory has generated huge JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-52284182187664810462004-01-12T19:39:00.000+10:002007-04-09T19:39:36.112+10:00The secret to happiness ... just do itBy Christine Jackman MONEY can buy happiness and the best investment advice may be as simple as the sports shoe slogan: just do it. That's the conclusion drawn by researchers who set out to identify what sort of spending made people happiest. The psychologists, from Cornell University and the University of Colorado in the US, compared ``experiential JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1073816082643036962004-01-11T20:14:00.000+10:002004-01-11T20:17:01.840+10:00WINDSCHUTTLE REPLIES TO RYAN
Keith Windschuttle sent the letter below to “The Australian” in reply to Ryan’s attempted defence of her fabrications (also reproduced below), but “The Australian” did not publish it. I am delighted therefore that Keith has agreed to let me reproduce it here
Lyndall Ryan’s claim (Letters, January 3-4) that there have been “independent investigations” verifying her JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1073208812140129722004-01-04T19:33:00.000+10:002004-01-04T19:36:43.343+10:00Historic craft
In "No slander in exposing cultural brutality" (Opinion, 29/12), Keith Windschuttle still cannot accept that he has lost all credibility as a historian of the colonial frontier.
He repeats his original claim that historians of the Tasmanian Aborigines, like myself, fabricated footnotes. But he wilfully ignores historian Inga Clendinnen's conclusions, in a major review of the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1072944541083356542004-01-01T18:09:00.000+10:002004-01-01T18:16:08.810+10:00
Holiday Terror Alerts….ho..ho..ho... hum
By Arlene Peck
(www.arlenepeck.com)
After three years of unrelenting terrorists attacks against Israeli civilians I have begun to notice that these same savages who attack “the Jews’ are also directing their mindless and cruel behavior on the Christians also.
For the first time I noticed on the American television references to how the Christians JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1072903355944703932004-01-01T06:42:00.000+10:002004-01-01T06:44:07.590+10:00OZONE SKEPTICISM
I recently ran a series of posts on “Dissecting Leftism” about the Greenie panic over the earth’s ozone layer. There have been climate scientists who have been skeptical about it for a long time and the evidence now seems to be swinging their way. But it is a big subject and there are many thoughts on it. Among the thoughts on it are the following that I received from RogueJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129890.post-1072747393313529972003-12-30T11:23:00.000+10:002003-12-30T11:24:42.950+10:00One of the readers of “Dissecting Leftism” recently discovered Keith Burgess-Jackson’s site through a link there and wrote Keith an appreciative letter which he also copied to me. It has some interesting thoughts in it so, with Keith’s permission, I reproduce it below
Immoral philosophy
Hi Keith,
Thanks a lot for the Singer-Posner exchange -- I'm working through it.
Re your latest postingJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com