This is an excerpt from Newt Gingrich’s speech to the Republic convention. To read the whole speech click here. Now what I want to focus on is a subject that has dominated my thinking for decades, how do we keep America safe? Keeping America safe is the first responsibility of the American president. There have […]
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We are at war with radical Islamists – Newt Gingrich
Friday, July 22nd, 2016Putting the sword to religious relativism
Friday, October 10th, 2014It appears the AFP may have overplayed its hand when referring to a sword seized in recent raids. But the sword also demonstrates that those who claim all religions are essentially the same, have also overplayed their hands as well, and that to ignore the essence of a religion when analysing religious violence is a […]
Continue Reading...Living with the hypocrites – showing on SBS
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014Imagine my surprise to see Gregory Storer and Michael Barnett starring in the first instalment of SBS’s Living with the Enemy. These are the two gay activists who tried to put On Line Opinion out of business four years ago costing us tens of thousands of dollars, editor Susan Prior her job, and now me my […]
Continue Reading...Let’s rub out bigotry (and Catherine Deveny) Bill
Friday, August 15th, 2014I always thought that George Brandis was right – it is legal to be a bigot in this country – but Bill Shorten has corrected him, a correction which he tacitly seems to have accepted by abandoning his attempt to change section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. According to Bill “…bigotry has no place […]
Continue Reading...Slippery slopes of Church and State
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011One of the most frequent objections I heard to Peter Hollingworth’s appointment as Governor-General was that it was a breach of the doctrine of separation of powers. This was a nonsense argument as he was appointed in his secular persona, not as a priest, but many intelligent people made it. It was also a self-serving […]
Continue Reading...Freedom of speech, freedom of expression and the Bolt decision
Friday, September 30th, 2011Those in doubt that the Andrew Bolt case is about free speech need only think about the contortions of logic necessary to dismissing the proposition that it is about free speech. On his blog, my friend Mark Bahnisch says that “free speech is not at issue here” before observing that “[f]ree speech, as the judgment […]
Continue Reading...The caravan moves on
Sunday, April 26th, 2009I’ve been following the St Mary’s saga with detached interest. Having once been to a mass there I found the service powerful, but I’ve been fascinated that Peter Kennedy thought that he could stay there as a Catholic priest at the same time as he defied and criticised the church. So when Mark Bahnisch suggested […]
Continue Reading...Madonna and Child in the mind’s eye
Monday, April 13th, 2009I was playing with my son and looking at Google Earth. We went from discussing how Vikings navigated the inland waterways in Russia all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea, to Mercator projections, and twisting and turning the globe. So, low and behold, what did I find lurking under the summer Arctic […]
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Christianity as a protector of the secular society
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008That Christianity, and Judaism, demand a secular, or at least dualist society where church and state are separate, was the theme of Father Robert Sirico at the CIS’s Acton Lecture last night. (The CIS doesn’t have a transcript or speech notes up, but you can get a flavour of his speech from this op-ed in […]
Continue Reading...I do not like thee, Cardinal Pell
Saturday, July 12th, 2008I do not like thee, Cardinal Pell The reason why, you know full well. And please believe the words I tell: If there were one, you’d rot in hell. Snap, snap! Time for all those leaders of the church, of all denominations, to call for the removal of this odious man. Haven’t we all heard […]
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