With all the Sarah Palin hopenchangin’ going on right now, selling nearly 500,000 copies of her book in the first week, one might be surprised to learn that in a recent poll Romney tied with Obama, while Palin was behind. I think people are looking for a little less hopenchangin’ going rougin’, and a little more of boring competent technocrat deliever on jobsandeconomyin’. Read Full Story

Given the importance of the carbon issue and that Andrews lost the ballot, unless another challenge is won in the next two months, then those Liberals that are opposed to the ETS  should leave the party and join the National Party to ready themselves for the next election. Ideally, those opposed to the ETS will vote with the National Party to draw a public line in the sand on the philosophical direction of the Liberal Party. Three shadow Parliamentary secretaries have already resigned. The Li... Read Full Story

Just finished watching Kevin Andrews give a press conference. I over heard a journalist say that he considered Andrews did better than he thought he would. However Andrews could have done better when answering a question on whether or not he supports pricing carbon. The line should be the following:  “assuming that the  science on AGW turns out to support definitive action on limiting carbon emissions, after an audit into IPCC claims,  then an ETS would be one of the last things I would... Read Full Story

I think Abbott has ruled himself out of the leadership running this morning on ABC radio, but Kevin Andrews said this morning on the Alan Jones show that he is a candidate for the leadership. He doesn’t have anything to lose given that he is unlikely to get a shadow portfolio any time soon. Vexnews reports though: …Malcolm Turnbull’s current intention to brazenly tough it out. His strategy is to crash through or crash, not just on the ETS but also in terms of any potential challen... Read Full Story

This last fourteen days has been amazing. First we had Lord Monckton exposing on the Alan Jones’ radio programme the world government scam that is the Copenhagen Treaty. Apparently the reaction was so overwhelming that Jones’ agreed to replay the interview along with an interview he had with MIT Prof Lindzen. Now we have had Climate Gate: the UK’s CRU – the seemingly main conduit for IPCC wisdom – has been exposed as manipulating the climate change science to fit... Read Full Story

Just recently: AN ABORIGINAL rapist was given too much leniency because of his race and extremely deprived background, the Court of Appeal ruled today. Justices Marcia Neave and Robert Redlich said the sentence imposed on Rodney Daryl Moore, who raped a woman who was eight months pregnant, was “manifestly inadequate”…. The DPP argued in the appeal that legal precedent dictated that race should play no part in sentencing. Justices Neave and Redlich said a previous appeal de... Read Full Story

From one undemocratic President to another undemocratic President: Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday sent a message to Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy to congratulate him on his election as full-time president of the European Union. Funny, because I don’t recall when the people of the EU had  a chance to vote on the matter. Read Full Story

In case you haven’t been following the latest climatology goings on, it seems someone hacked into the  Temple of Delphi University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, which has been home to some of the most notorious respected climatology doomsayers on planet Earth. You can catch the latest here and here. Basically it appears that a range of these climate doomsayers have been a bit lose with the truth, as the hackers released a range of what appear to be legitimate emails that expo... Read Full Story

Government spending is all about priorities, and according to Rudd spending $6 billion on pink batts and billions more on school halls parents don’t want is more important than national security: …the planned acquisition (F-35) has slipped by at least two years, with the air force not due to get its first operational squadron until 2018-19 at the earliest. The initial squadron could be trimmed to as few as 14 aircraft as Defence planners struggle to find further savings in the $27... Read Full Story

Compared to what Telstra can do now at minimal cost, the purpose of Rudd’s future big government run broadband network is what exactly? …provide a two-finger salute to the government in the process. The idea was to spend $300 million to upgrade the HFC cable network Telstra owns in the capital cities. The original NBN was supposed to deliver minimum speeds of 12 Mbps. Telstra would upgrade the speeds available through the HFC – which passes a million homes in Melbourne – to 100 M... Read Full Story