After being bombarded all day by the sisterhood running the ABC, it came as a relief to read a more considered point of view concerning International Women's Day. Of course the ABC wasn't alone in its preoccupation with things feminist and didn't have a monopoly on fatuousness (fatuosity?)

(BTW. Is it still legal to use the f..... word in a discussion related to females?)

There was a…

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Laurie Oakes laments that politics is getting a bit unsavoury.

 

"Wingnuts and looney tunes abound," shouts the headline to today's column.

 

"WINGNUTS are coming out of the woodwork," he opines.



What is the cause of his distress?

A few ratbag text messages and a threatening phone call from some unhinged nutter…

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Andrew Bolt today led his "tips" post with a link to the great Woody Guthrie's immortal This Land is Your Land.

 

I was disappointed, but not altogether surprised, to find that more than a few of his regular followers were somewhat put out by his choice of theme for the day.

As many members here will know, Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912. He came of age just in time to coincide with the great dust bowl and the great depression. The… Continue

While we make the best of any momentum that maybe generated by Gillards cowardly (but perhaps politically necessary) surrender to The Greens, let's not lose sight of the bigger picture. A victory on carbon dioxide emissions tax may in fact leave us worse off.

Without a "carbon" tax we have already seen massive increases in energy prices. These have been largely due to the introduction of various mandated sustainable energy targets and massive, corruption laden and economically…

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