Norway beats US in war on terror

IF ONLY. If only President George W. Bush had responded to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 in the same way that the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his Foreign Minister Gahr Stre has responded to the terrorist attack a week ago in their country. Continue reading “Norway beats US in war on terror”

Greens could replace morally wayward Labor

MORE evidence is in that there is no such thing as a “rusted-on” Labor vote in Australia. In the 1990s chunks of the formerly supposed rusted-on blue-collar Labor vote fell away when Pauline Hanson and John Howard applied the WD40. Xenophobes and “battlers” deserted the Labor Party. Continue reading “Greens could replace morally wayward Labor”

Carbon tax OK even if no climate change

NEW taxes, like the carbon tax, naturally alarm people. In the mid-1690s, for example, the revenue in England was being depleted by, among other things, people clipping coinage. A mooted income tax was decried as an impossible invasion of privacy. Instead a window tax was introduced in 1696. You paid tax if you had more than 10 windows. Continue reading “Carbon tax OK even if no climate change”

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