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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note #174,734 — Rewrite Of Rights Badly Needed
Whether it be Attorney General George Brandis musing about the creative tension inside cabinet over the rule of law and how this extends to the rights of radicals or the statement by the officer in change at the inquest into The Lindt Cafe siege about the rights and...
K-12: Criminal Minds At Work
“..So-called “progressive” education is more invasive and hostile than most parents ever realize. Socialists don’t want to teach kids to read and count; they want to rewire them philosophically and emotionally..”
Why Obamas’s half brother will be voting for Trump
"...Obama, 58, a longtime Democrat, said his “deep disappointment” in his brother Barack’s administration has led him to recently switch allegiance to “the party of Lincoln.” The last straw, he said, came earlier this month when FBI Director James Comey recommended...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
The Prime Minister hosted an Eid Dinner at Kirribilli House at which one of the attendees was a controversial sheik whose views are anathema to most Australians, yet he chose not to attend the Great War centenary ceremonies honouring Australian sacrifices on the...
A Generation of Heroes — Bernard Salt, Weekend Australian Magazine.
“..Quit your bickering and step aside boomers, Xers and millennials. This generation makes you all look soft. Gen-Fed was perhaps the most conservative of generations. Yet they laid the foundation for who we are and how we live today..”
For Political Junkies — Clinton
For all political junkies. In a US Presidential election year this is a must watch on the Foxtel History channel, Wednesdays at 7.30pm. Although 3 episodes of the 4 have already been to air you catch up via Foxtels "Anytime" facility, scroll to number 3, "Anytime TV...
Turkey and Erdogan: Here comes the (real) caliphate — Ralph Peters
This is a brilliantly, cogently and compellingly argued thesis and I think the West ignores this narrative at their peril. It's all about history, learning from it and not repeating it. "....If today’s Western leaders possess one general trait, it’s a genius for...
Lest We Forget — Those that died on The Western Front
I only posted this on Anzac Day this year but with it being the 100 year and week anniversary of the theatres of the Western Front, (Fromelles and Pozieres) I thought I should post it again. I don’t know what this is called officially, but I call it “on the shoulders...
What is it with Hillary and emails? I doubt if she’ll make it to the starting gate on November 8
“..Bad as this trove of emails is, it could presage something much worse. A brief introduction to the emails, that were released on Twitter with a link to a webpage, described them as “part one of our new Hillary Leaks series..”
Random Note #187,453 The ABC, The Minister And Q&A
A good start and good news that Communications Minister Mitch Fifield wants an explanation over last Monday's Q&A but where is the new Managing Director Michelle Guthrie in this and why stop with Q&A's about Q&A? The problem with the ABC is much, much,...