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One More Five-Ring Circus

Posted on Friday, 27th July 2012 by Ozboy

The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching.

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More Of The Shiny Stuff

Posted on Sunday, 15th July 2012 by Ozboy

A few random jottings on gold while I’m out on the road; back in a week.

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Posted in Libertarianism, United States of America | 29 Comments

Meet The Asylum’s New Management

Posted on Tuesday, 3rd July 2012 by Ozboy

The iron ore town of Whyalla on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is one of the places most threatened by Labor’s Carbon Tax – the tax that Gillard promised before the last Federal election she would never introduce, and which came into effect last Sunday:

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Gunwalker – What The Hell???

Posted on Friday, 29th June 2012 by Ozboy

I don’t know much about this whole Gunwalker episode, beyond the little I’ve read in the news. But it’s now meant the United States’ chief executive law officer has just been held in contempt of Congress. Pretty serious stuff.

I said I’d close down the reffo’ camp once Disqus was back online. But this Gunwalker thing has me rather intrigued. I noticed the comments on this towards the end; feel free to continue the discussion here.

Posted in United States of America | 24 Comments

Daily Telegraph Delingpole Refugee Camp

Posted on Wednesday, 27th June 2012 by Ozboy

Bat-chomping eco-crucifixes!

G’day Folks,

The DT blogs are down for maintenance for an unusually long period of time. So all regular readers of James Delingpole’s blog are welcome to continue the discussion here. Even the trolls can come in, just to make it interesting. I’m sure comments will drift towards the usual theme, but I’ll restrict moderation down to the libellous and the illegal.

I’ll shut this page down as soon as the DT blogs re-open.

Cheers

Ozboy

Posted in Daily Telegraph Blog Disaster | 66 Comments

Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VI – What Goes Around…

Posted on Friday, 22nd June 2012 by Ozboy

Well, it’s finally happened. The scandal surrounding corruption in the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s, which LibertyGibbert covered last August, has now been formally raised in Federal Parliament.

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A Mixed Legacy

Posted on Friday, 15th June 2012 by Ozboy

Bella, horrida bella,
et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.

– Virgil, Aeneid VI LXXXVI-LXXXVII

Today LibertyGibbert marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Enoch Powell, British scholar, poet, soldier, linguist, politician and polymath. How prescient were his views, and the extent to which he was a man ahead of his time—or an artefact of an Empire past—is the question we’ll be addressing.

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Liberty, Faith And Reason

Posted on Saturday, 9th June 2012 by Ozboy

Today, LibertyGibbert will look at the rôle of religion in an increasingly secular society, and question how religious faith can potentially add to, and conversely how institutionalized religion has so often subtracted from, the liberty of the individual.

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Posted in Libertarianism, Religion | 22 Comments