Terror ‘priority’ if Brown is PM
– BBC
Never a truer word. He wants us to be afraid. I for one am going to cooperate on that one point.
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The Onion notices the awful truth. Their overall election coverage is quite chuckle-inducing, too. Update: All right, there are a couple of decent ones in there. I like Dr No. (h/t: Avatar Briefs) November 8th, 2006 | Comments are closed
 [I]f they have got drug dealers living in the street, you know, love is not the answer to that I am afraid, evicting them from their houses and locking them up is the answer. – The Right Honourable Tony Blair MP, at his monthly press conference yesterday (At least the cleaned-up transcript from No.10.). Lobby correspondents are united in thinking the Prime Minister was belligerent and bad tempered about everything. Has he finally gone completely round the bend? The people he wants to evict and lock-up are implicitly those suspected of being Bad People. The rest of the conference made clear he is not interested in due process, civil liberties, all that old-fashioned nonsense. November 7th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Take my advice, never trust a politician. When a politician tells you they are going to look after your child’s education, it’s perhaps time to go private – or even to home educate. When a politician tells you they are going to ban guns – expect vast increases in gun crime. When a politician tells you they are going to ban dangerous drugs – watch out for your community being awash with these substances. My heart sinks when politicians get involved in anything. Invariably, they promise the earth, coercively tax you out of your hard earned money, and then they deliver bugger all when you really need the service. – Helen Evans in the Nurses for Reform blog today (I thought it might liven up) November 6th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is, I suspect, no accident that it is in Europe that climate change absolutism has found the most fertile soil. For it is Europe that has become the most secular society in the world, where the traditional religions have the weakest popular hold. Yet people still feel the need for the comfort and higher values that religion can provide; and it is the quasi-religion of Green alarmism and what has been termed global salvationism – of which the climate change issue is the most striking example, but by no means the only one – which has filled the vacuum, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy. – Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, quoted today by Guido Fawkes November 3rd, 2006 | 19 comments - (Comments are closed)
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47 October 30th, 2006 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft For me this quote can really be applied to almost any set of beliefs. October 29th, 2006 | 37 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Those atheists, people of the book (Christians and Jews), where will they end up? In Surfers Paradise? On the Gold Coast? Where will they end up? In hell and not part-time, for eternity. They are the worst in God’s creation. – Sheikh Taj Din Al Hilaly, widely noted as Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric and an assumed <sigh> moderate Muslim, unintentionally explains why multiculturalism is quite a bad idea. The Sheikh had, in the same sermon, described unveiled and outgoing (as in leaving the house) women as “uncovered meat”, and that “if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it.” Rape away, gents. October 26th, 2006 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
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If it is to survive, democracy must recognise that it is not the fountainhead of justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue – Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty October 22nd, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
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