Actually, Bush was lying
In my previous post about the stoush between Congress and Bush over the supplemental appropriations bill, I wrote: On April 15, the money for the Iraq War runs out, and then the troops would have to be withdrawn. Itâ??s actually [...]
Once was lost, now (is) found
Bryan Palmer’s been having some technical issues, and if you’re looking for OzPolitics but can’t locate it, you can find it here.
Petard Watch
Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, authors of The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press, recently produced a two parter on the postmodern left at On Line Opinion. Part one begins: Pomo-bashing, like dragon-hunting, is an activity best [...]
An emissions trading trap?
On the face of it, you might think the fact that the government is currently conducting an inquiry into an emissions trading scheme is progress. While it’s pretty unlikely that the likes of Howard and Minchin actually support the use [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread where, at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Carnivalia
We don’t usually link to all the various blog-carnivals going on, but I thought that with the cool weather coming on, and some grey skies as well, that this weekend might see some of our readers inside with time on [...]
Another quick ramble around the topics of welfare and liberty …
… with a few gratuitous cheap shots at various targets along the way. Trawl through the archives here and at Tug Boat Potemkin and you’ll find plenty of evidence that, unlike Mirko “A person’s moral worth cannot be assessed by [...]
Hell ain't a bad place to be
Hell does exist according to Pope Benedict. Not so much fire and brimstone and demons with hot pokers (as erronously reported in the media) but a place of torment for those that reject God. Not that it will sway those [...]
"Members of Congress need to stop making political statements"
You’d almost start to believe the rumours that Dubya is back on the Bourbon in a big way, and that Laura Bush is spending her nights in a Washington hotel to avoid her hubby. I’m kinda not kidding, because if [...]
Any agreement you like – as long as it's this one
Those evil unions, they’re all so rigid, so stuck in the past. They still believe that negotiating should at least involve, you know, negotiating; that deals should involve trading something for another thing. WorkChoices, on the other hand offers us [...]
Queensland Libs – farcical the next day too…
As an update to my leadership stoush Santoro plot story yesterday, over the fold is Christian Kerr’s tale of today’s twists and turns in the farcical saga of the Santoro payback.
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