Early Exit For 2012

Posted on Monday, 3rd December 2012 by Ozboy

Mushroom CloudIf the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell.

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The Liberals Have Taken Over California

Posted on Wednesday, 21st November 2012 by Ozboy

An act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature.

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A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue

Posted on Thursday, 15th November 2012 by Ozboy

Events in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse warrants at least a few brief comments today.

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America On A Collision Course With Reality

Posted on Sunday, 4th November 2012 by Ozboy

After Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate really are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up more debt on their credit card than all his predecessors combined, then dammit, they deserve him.

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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime Reading

Posted on Friday, 19th October 2012 by Ozboy

I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know you’ll understand that feeding the family takes priority, and as a freelancer I have to accept contracts whenever they appear.

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Clutching At Straws

Posted on Tuesday, 9th October 2012 by Ozboy

I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media.

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Getting The Government We Deserve

Posted on Tuesday, 25th September 2012 by Ozboy

I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me.

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Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface

Posted on Sunday, 16th September 2012 by Ozboy

What are we to make of this lot?

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The Rainbow Connection

Posted on Sunday, 2nd September 2012 by Ozboy

Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage.

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Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – The Net Closes

Posted on Thursday, 23rd August 2012 by Ozboy

Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country.

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