ACCORDING to Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, America is lurching left after last week¿s presidential election. But hang on. Gerard Baker, writing in The Times, says that America is still a centre-right country. They can¿t both be right. Or can they?
HAD Republican John McCain beaten the odds and been elected the 44th US President today, the sure-fire headline would have been “America is a racist nation”. But could the same headline be accurately run after this historic win by Democrat Barack Obama?
KEVIN Rudd has adopted a firm war footing as Australia confronts the equivalent of a rolling national security crisis.
DAVID Marr’s defence of artist Bill Henson shows the disconnect between the pseudo-intellectuals and the rest of society.
SARAH Palin’s address at the Republican National Convention marked a return of the blazing politics of polarisation.
The beauty of Sarah Palin’s candidacy: it is unreadable, unprecedented and unpredictable.
RETIRING Liberal politician Alexander Downer has some advice for Brendan Nelson and worries about US policy towards North Korea.
HERE in the land of the free and the brave, some liberals are looking more like cowards not much interested in real freedom.
HERE’S a message literally out of left field. Young Labor, a group brimming with idealistic, progressive young men and women, has given the thumbs down to a charter of rights.
J’ACCUSE. I accuse some judges of naked, unvarnished judicial activism. I accuse them of distorting and destroying the democratic framework in Australia.
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