Tag: Opinion

Here Come the Higgins Copycats

Commentary While our country recovers from the COVID lockdown years, across Australia there are thousands of families who look back to 2021 as the start of a very different nightmare—the year their sons were accused of sexual assault. This is the legacy of the media hype around Brittany Higgins. There’s a flood of copycat cases…


The CCP Slaps Pope Francis in the Face

Commentary As readers of this esteemed publication would be aware, in 2018, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the appointment of Catholic bishops. In doing so, the Vatican recognised the Chinese “Patriotic Church,” set up and controlled by the CCP. The 1950 Guangyuan Manifesto establishing this state-run church…


The CCP Shows Pope Francis Its True Colours

Commentary As readers of this esteemed publication would be aware, in 2018, the Vatican signed a provisional agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the appointment of Catholic bishops. In doing so, the Vatican recognised the Chinese “Patriotic Church,” set up and controlled by the CCP. The 1950 Guangyuan Manifesto establishing this state-run church…


John Robson: On Chinese Election Interference Crisis, Liberals Should Self-Reflect Instead of Deflect

Commentary The long-awaited testimony from Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford on Chinese electoral interference finally came April 14. And predictably wasn’t worth waiting for since we got the usual Canadian jedi mind trick where we feeble citizens don’t need to see that information. But while it might seem odd that Liberal MPs staged…


John Stuart Mill Versus the New Totalitarians

Commentary I have expended a fair amount of ink criticizing John Stuart Mill’s ideas about liberty in his (in)famous 1859 pamphlet “On Liberty.” I think that Mill’s greatest critic, James Fitzjames Stephen, was right about Mill. In his devastating polemic “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” Stephen criticized various aspects of Mill’s teaching, especially the anemic, abstract nature…


The Ghazni Eight

Commentary We ran ammo bunker “missions” all the time. It was really more of a work detail. In the early days of 2003, the Afghan National Army (ANA) was still in its infancy, being stood up and mentored by the U.S. and NATO partners. Part of standing up was to stockpile equipment and ordnance for…


ANALYSIS: Unlike Trump, Democrats Escaped Prosecution for Election Violations

News Analysis As radio host Mark Levin recently noted, when it comes to Democrats and real campaign violations, “there is no justice.” In contrast to the weak charges leveled against former President Donald Trump, Levin provided a series of concrete examples of Democrat campaign violations, including the $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996…


The Electric Car Is the Trojan Horse of Global Communism

Commentary Elon Musk is no communist, but he may end up having contributed more to its global success than anyone since Karl Marx. By making the Tesla the status symbol of our times, and now apparently about to offer an affordable version for the common man and woman, he has helped clear the way for…


Reflections on the Condition of British Liberalism 

Commentary Traveling to Portugal in early April, I came across an English-language newspaper serving the country’s Algarve region. The Portuguese paper reported on a Positive News Magazine summary of a recent King’s College London study that found the UK is “becoming more liberal.” Positive News reported that Britain is now among “the world’s most progressive…


How China Made Russia Its Junior Partner

Commentary When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in March, it was to firm up a new Sino-Russian strategic partnership crafted last year. Yet there is always a hierarchy in every alliance, and it is increasingly apparent that Russia is the junior partner in this relationship. It wasn’t always so. From the founding of communist…