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    The authorities response to a relentlessly self-promoting, grandstanding show-pony whose entire shtick is publicly railing against claims of unjust application…
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    • I'm guessing there is plenty about Patek, not to mention the Davis story, we don't know. As coincidences go Abbottabad…
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    • The Right would provide comic relief if it were not such a national embarrassment; like a rude, drunken uncle at…
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    • Marcy makes a case that Umar Patek may have been a crucial lead in identifying Osama in Abbottabad.
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    • I'm not a conspiracy theorist but I can see there may be convergence between the aspirations of the state to…
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    • Whatever the explanation the outcome is the same. Fascists promote "freedom" and are believed. We seem a long way from…
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    • It's human nature to adopt belief systems which, accurate or not, lend themselves to the individual's preferred narrative of stability,…
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    • Ironically Australians don't know this part of the story although the Whitlam dismissal is legendary. In spite of the evidence…
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    • That went well.
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    • All hell has broken loose now.
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    • I wonder whether the protracted IMF loan dangled in from of Morsi all last year was not also a significant…
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    • Innocence. Truly priceless quality.
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    • Born in Manhattan, lived in Australia for almost thirty years; I kiss the tarmac like the Pope every time I…
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    • Find it ironic that an Islamist party government is toppled for implementing Western-style free-market reforms.
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    • That these were the 'three branches' of the phenomenon; military, industry and Congress. Works for me.
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    • The history of the modern Republican Party in one sentence: Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller got into an argument and…
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    • It was originally the military-industrial-congressional complex: Geoffrey Perret, in his biography of Eisenhower, claims that, in one draft of the…
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    • Too many media outlets with too much corporate incentive?
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    • I can understand the distinction between your position and your feelings and I not only respect your position but admire…
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    • That among the terms and conditions of a local Australian credit union I came upon the following bullet point, under…
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