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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsBig spending for negligible result doesn’t add up — The Australian
A brilliant piece of commentary in this opening analogy of the Oz editorial this morning. Even a boneheaded Labor spokesman for Education like Tania Plibersek could get her head around it if she applied her mind. "...The problem could be set in a maths, economics or...
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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking Selling good farmland to other countries is not deemed to be contrary to the national interest. Will this still be so when 35 per cent of Australia’s farmland is owned by other countries? Or 75 per cent? What figure would be...
3 of 4 NYT bestsellers are anti-Clinton books.
3 of 4 NYT bestsellers are anti-Clinton books. Here is how Amazon describes the books: — Crisis of Character. In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clinton's oval office,...
BBC seeks Panorama researcher but only apply if you’re ‘black, Asian or non-white’
More proof that if you are politically correct you can overtly discriminate. BBC seeks Panorama researcher but only apply if you're 'black, Asian or non-white'
Fitness Test For The Presidency — American Thinker
Doesn't miss... "...President Obama thinks Donald Trump is unfit to be President! He may well be, but he is certainly no more unfit than Obama was in 2008 or has proven to be in office these past seven years. Trump does react to certain stimuli like a rat in a cage:...
Young Heads Filled With Green Mush — Quadrant Online
So we learn from the NAPLAN results earlier today that all that extra money poured into education didn't even move the needle. Of course it was never going to because it's not about money. It's about too much junk in a crowded curriculum. Too much goofing off with...
Why are we afraid: A 1400 year secret by Bill Warner
This is very long BUT very interesting. If you don't have time watch it in one sitting, watch it in 15 minute chunks. But watch it none the less. For some cold hard statistical analysis of actual events for those who seriously think that Islam is a religion of peace,...
Deadbeat Parents Failed Boys — Janet Albrechtsen
Some choice pars from Janet Albrechtsen's column in today's Australian "..A week on, there is still a huge hole in the miserable story about young boys in the Northern Territory’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Four Corners challenged our emotions, asked searching...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
I wonder if I’m the only Liberal voter who thinks that Malcolm Turnbull could save himself, and Australia, a lot of anguish by quietly retiring to the backbench and giving Julie Bishop the mantle. Steve Kessell, Willetton, WA I don’t understand Malcolm Turnbull’s...