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Black Flags, Stupidity and the Heartless Left
Francis Fitzgerald is an idiot.As an EU Justice Minister that does not distinguish her or make her in any way special: so are they all idiots.On the 8th of this month 'collected Justice ministers had a...
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For the Dead
Spare a thought for Reyhaneh Jabbari, hung in the early hours of this morning, in Tehran's Rajaishahr Prison. Her crime was to have defended herself against a rapist from the Iranian secret...
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The Water Lemon
Hard pressed Irish families are being sold a squeezed lemon on water charges and no politician has the courage to tell them so. That is understandable. Nobody stands in front of an angry mob and tells...
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More Water Lemon
The battle over water continues but it is now very much Matthew Arnold, "as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night" with little...
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Anarchy, The State & Utopia
Nozick's great book is available in free epub format, probably because of American libertarians rejection of the idea of intellectual property. This is readable in kindle & some screen e-readers....
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Vous n'etes pas Charlie, Sugar Plums
The Sugar Plums have all gone home, taking their pop art signs, their upheld pencils, and #CharlieHebdo hashtags, happy to have expressed themselves and shown themselves possessed of that right-on...
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Neither Government nor Jihadists should decide what can be said.
Paris, we have a problem.Charlie Hebdo was nasty. It may have been funny, I can't judge because I never saw it until Islamofascists murdered the cartoonists and editors. Now it stands as an icon for...
View ArticleThe Courage of Leo
Isn't the courage of Leo Varadkar astounding? Just this morning he went nonchalantly into his office in Government Buildings as if he faced no threat at all. The mob that was forming to throw him off...
View ArticleMobs abroad, Cowardice and Hostages to Silence
There is a form of cowardice and moral equivocation, in which the bien pensant are indulging about the Charlie Hebdo murders, which manages to be an attack on free speech and gifts, as hostages for our...
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Article 15
The glory of free enterprise is that goods become cheaper. By shaving small margins of costs over and over again, by producing more, by using less resources (and that includes labour) entrepreneurs...
View ArticleA Crusade, Not A Campaign. The Gaystabo Are Back
In a manner as predictable as it is boring the Same Sex Marriage activists are back, not debating but psychologizing and insulting. The fact that it gives these people more satisfaction to attack the...
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The Nub of the Argument
Today’s referendum is important, because it is not about love and equality but because it is about things more important, law and families - much plainer, much more boring than the emotive slogans....
View ArticleMarriage referendum- 9 reasons for NO
Vote NO because:1. This is not a referendum on gay people, our status or how we are valued. It is a referendum to re-define marriage as an adult companionship agreement. There is NO civil right to Same...
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There was a Prince...
The last time we met, by accident at a bar, it was not pleasant. The first time we met had been magic.He was coming out to smoke as I was going in, blond, broad, handsome with a smile that was half...
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Spaceship Civilisation
There is a trope in science fiction which involves a group of people who find themselves on a great space ship, the product of some advanced, ancient, now vanished civilization. They can barely...
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Real Reform
Reform is the flavour of the time, the zeitgeist’s hottest political ticket. The word is ripe with promise, overburdened with meaning to the point of meaninglessness. To consider reform we should first...
View ArticleNot as these Pagans
I can experience my grief at my mother's death but doubt I can understand this shape shifting monster, that waits, daily to see will my discipline slip and my heart be exposed. It is the small things...
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The Redundancy of Outrage
The photo of little Aylan Shenu drowned was shocking as the heart-breaking sight of a drowned toddler should be. Only a stone was not harrowed by his little figure asleep in the surf. Only an idiot...
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And then came Corbyn
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of British Labour Party has been as entertaining as a late night fire in a brothel. Drunk with the entertainment of watching fire-fighters carry partially...
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Rent Control is STUPID
There are some truths that cannot be repeated often enough, loudly enough or vehemently enough. Price control is a bad idea because it reduces supply.Always.For all goods and services to which maximum...
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