“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 […]
“SOCIALISM IS THE GREATEST THREAT” February 15, 2020 All who love Freedom please hear me. Human life is one long struggle for Freedom. People struggle individually for Freedom from different personal things in their lives. You have your personal struggles and I have mine. But there is a Freedom that is paramount in importance to […]
AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT RULES NO DEPORTATIONS FOR “INDIGENOUS” PEOPLE February 11, 2020 Dear Editor, No way! Get out of it! So the High Court of Australia recognises this Brendan Thoms bloke (who can’t be deported) as an Aborigine? Well, fair bloody dinkum: I’ve had much to do with Aboriginal Australians for some 68 years, and […]
“UNCONSCIONABLE” February 10, 2020 Dear Editor: There are many reasons to question the integrity of the movement to impeach Trump, including the fact that impeachment was threatened and plotted from the moment he was elected and the fact that the rationale for impeachment has morphed from collusion with Russia to a phone call with Ukraine. […]
“A SECOND TERM” February 7, 2020 Dear Editor, U.S. President Donald Trump is not only laughing all the way to winning a second term, but also all the way to the bank, courtesy of: inept Democrats the likes of Nancy Pelosi; Hollywood entertainment industry and elite sporting personality “glitterati gladiators”; academia; and so much of […]
“TRUE COLORS” February 1, 2020 This whiner and complainer keeps harping on the fact that fifty percent of the people want Trump thrown out of office. So what? That’s the same fifty percent who voted for that horrid witch, Hillary Clinton, and they will never change. The Democrats are the cancer of America. They have […]
WHAT DID THE BRITISH BRING TO AUSTRALIA? January 25, 2020 Dear Editor, Perhaps, if not “Australia Day” celebrated on January 26th each year, then what about “Modernity Day”? No moral offence meant, but it’s just that a more powerful civilisation arrived, and those presently in Australia at the time were really fortunate it was the […]
“COURTING WITH OBSCURITY” January 19, 2020 Dear Editor: Australian tennis greats Nick Kyrgios and Margaret Court might have two characteristics in common: a courtside manner, and the ability to serve…both on and off the court. However, the how and why they do so couldn’t be more different. One splashes truly vile abuse/insults/actions most of the […]
“INVASION DAY,” INDEED? January 17, 2020 Dear Editor, “Fix Constitution or we’ll throw it into the sea” roars one of Australia’s “most respected” Aborigines in Galarrawut Yunupingu! Well, now (and I suppose Aboriginal social commentator, etc. Stan “Glitterati Gladiator” Grant will now say whitefella Aussies scream “uppity blackfella” at Yunupingu just as they are at […]
“MOTHER NATURE’S CYCLES” January 12, 2020 Dear Editor, Strewth, here we go again! All the “Glazed-over” Greenies and their Hollywood-type “glitterati gladiator” fellow travellers are getting all aggravated over Australia’s bushfires as if they’ve got gumnuts in their undies again! I reckon global warming is, in all probability; a combination of a tiny bit man-made […]