“BROTHERS-IN-ARMS” May 16, 2020 Dear Editor, During the 2020 U.S. 4th of July, Independence Day, celebrations, Donald Trump will almost certainly celebrate his confirmation of Australia’s vital role in producing parts for America’s revolutionary F-35 warplane, and his influencing of America’s allies to buy Australian goods and services)! For all his enigmatic, cavalier ways, U.S. […]
“THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM” by John Porter, ©2020 (May 15, 2020) — How do we keep the people of the United States of America from becoming a herd of cattle being completely controlled in every aspect of their lives? How do we maintain ourselves as free and independent thinkers with rights of personal choice in […]
“GATHERING TRACTION…WORLDWIDE” May 11, 2020 Dear Editor, Much revered in the U.S., former Australian PM John Howard is only surpassed as the ultimate political “Automatic Pragmatic” by current American President Donald Trump because, just like John Howard, Donald Trump has – in many respects – mastered the “Art of Persuasion”! Sure, Donald Trump (unlike John […]
“FORWARD TO FUNDAMENTALS” May 4, 2020 Dear Editor, So often I’ve seen or heard of reports stating that better students are those whose parents help their children with homework and who themselves are strict on schoolwork being completed. Well, you could knock me over with a feather! Why on earth do “expert” reports have to […]
“REAL GOOD BLOKES” May 1, 2020 Dear Editor, In September last year billionaire Australian media mogul Kerry Stokes (whose substantial investments in totalitarian Red China were made before and/or after the Tiananmen Square massacre of young Chinese innocents struggling for freedom by China’s “People’s Liberation Army”?) indirectly criticised Australian PM Scott Morrison just as PM […]
“TOTALITARIAN” April 28, 2020 Dear Editor, Fractured trade relations with China are of great concern. However, I have long been far more gravely concerned about China’s Communist Party internally fracturing; thus, the most militarised economy, totalitarian nuclear-power country in the world: China…holding together! Yours, Howard Hutchins Victoria, Australia Sharon RondeauSharon Rondeau has operated The Post […]
“SOVEREIGN RIGHTS” April 27, 2020 Dear Editor, Welcome back to work, UK PM Boris Johnson, after your battle with COVID-19! And bravo! Bravo for Boris’ Brexit’s giving the British peoples back their sovereign rights politically and geographically (with respect to border security)! The European Union failed to integrate the European peoples but successfully cross-linked their […]
“SUBJUGATED BY FOREIGN POWERS” April 25, 2020 Dear Editor, With the centenary commemoration of WWI ending on Remembrance Day the 11th of November 2018 along with the 2018 100-year commemoration of the greatly historic WWI Battle of Hamel in which Australian and American troops fought shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time (and under the Australian Command […]
BUT LABOR PARTY OPPOSES April 2, 2020 Dear Editor, Once the Chinese-originated coronavirus crisis subsides, export earnings will so desperately need to pay for Australia’s printing of money to support Aussie workers, pensioners, small businesses, health systems, etc. So, how does/will Federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese still justify to the Australian people having Bill Shorten […]
“MOST PROFOUND” March 24, 2020 Dear Editor, Right now, how topical is Rabindranath Tagore’s “God is ashamed when the prosperous boast of his special favour”? Because (and whilst I’m no great admirer of him) Martin Luther King, Jnr’s, “We all may have come on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now,” is […]
“EVIL THOUGHTS” March 21, 2020 Dear Editor, At the moment there seems to be quite some anger, envy, resentment and ill-spirit in our communities. Perhaps two wise thoughts of the 19th century’s Churton Collins are worth considering: “In prosperity our friends know us; and in adversity we know our friends.”; and, “We are no more […]
WILL THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ULTIMATELY STRENGTHEN CHINA AND RUSSIA? March 16, 2020 Dear Editor, Totalitarian states will not virtually shut down entire national economies! My very dear wife (a most worthy human who has respiratory problems) and I (of doubtful worth) are in our mid-seventies and considered very vulnerable to COVID-19. That said, the vast […]
WHAT DOES TOO MUCH LENIENCY YIELD? March 13, 2020 Dear Editor, Juvenile and adolescent violent and other crime in Australia is escalating in proportion to the weakening of consequences, repercussions and retribution handed out by Australia’s parents, education authorities and judiciary! The preceding, coupled with the so-often begetting of feral offspring by feral parents, will […]
“THE PRIDE’S LEADER” February 29, 2020 Dear Editor, What’s Kiwi PM “Saint” Jacinda Ardern, leader of NZ’s Labour Party (the Kiwi political mob: always for fair play; fighting capitalist ogres on behalf of little blokes), doing about Kiwi Tokyo Olympics great Gold Medal women’s weightlifting hope, transgender Ms Laurel (formerly, Mr Gavin) Hubbard? I ask […]
PROTECTING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM February 27, 2020 Dear Editor, Tony Perkins, the conservative Christian chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (advisors to the U.S. Government) is right on the money: “US body demands India protect Muslims,” The Australian, 28/2, in calling for the Indian government to protect India’s Muslims (and for Perkins’ indirectly […]
WILL THERE BE A “MASS DEFECTION” OF SANDERS SUPPORTERS TO TRUMP? February 26, 2020 To the Editor: In the latter half of the 20th century, we started to hear (ad nauseam) about the Democrats’ “Big Tent.” The draw, of course, was to attract the multitudes, suggesting that everyone, everything and every idea (regardless of […]
CELEBRATING THE LIVES OF GREAT AMERICANS February 25, 2020 Dear Editor, This American Kobe Bryant must have been a really great sportsman and not a bad sort of a bloke to pack some 20,000 people into a stadium to honour his life. Now, putting things into perspective, let’s just hope the next passing of an […]
DID THE ROYAL FAMILY KNOW? February 21, 2020 Dear Editor, Unlike American “royalty,” British royalty serve in the front line when Britain goes to war! In WWII Prince George of Kent was killed while on active RAF service. It must remembered Prince Andrew (despite all his faults) served bravely in the Falklands War, and Meghan […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Feb. 16, 2020) — “The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.” — Donald Trump As […]
“NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CRIMINAL” February 15, 2020 [Editor’s Note: The author, a retired Connecticut state trooper, sent the following letter to his state senator and representative in response to a bill proposal for an “excise tax” on ammunition.] Just heard the latest tax insanity tax proposal for the State Legislature. The local news reported […]