Short and sweet – well done, President Obama. Finally. Now if only someone over here could show some leadership, too.

Now President Obama has publicly voiced his support for Marriage Equality for gay people – and good on him, too – let’s hope his much less impressive Australian counterpart can show the same guts. This means you, Ms Gillard. Sadly, once again, the lamentably poor Ms Gillard seems determined to convince us she has zero [...]

The Secret Serviceman and the Prostitute – what’s the real scandal?

Does anyone else think the ” scandal” of numerous members of President Obama’s Secret Service detail employing prostitutes while on an away trip to Colombia is really rather silly, and painfully revealing of the double standards in Western society? After all, in many countries prostitution has now been de-criminalised at least, and often made entirely [...]

British member of Parliament announces bounty on Obama and George Bush.

It is alleged that British Lord Nazir Ahmed put a £10 million (US$16 million) bounty on both President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush Friday, according to The Express Tribune, an English language Pakistani newspaper. Nazir, who is of Pakistani heritage and a controversial Labour Party member of the British House of Lords, (he [...]

What the f*** has Obama done so far?

Brilliant website, and long overdue. Whatever your political point of view, if you value a reasoned debate running up to November, I urge you to have a look. http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/ I am not uncritical of Obama – by no means – I think his recent signing of a bill to restrict the right to demonstrate was [...]

Well, look. It’s like this. ARE Republicans stupid? You tell me.

More than half – you heard that right, more than HALF – of likely Republican voters in Mississippi say they think President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling. Fifty-two percent said that Obama practiced Islam, while just 12 percent said he was a Christian. Thirty-six percent said [...]

Care about American freedom? If you do, read this article.

I don’t often simply reproduce other people’s work, but I think this story from CutDC.com is not only well-written but it raises vital questions about freedom in America. We need to remember that freedom is rarely lost in dramatic moments, but in innumerable little restrictions on freedom to organise, free assembly, free speech, and freedom [...]

Harvard says: 45,000 deaths a year in the US because of lack of health insurance

As the follow Reuters report shows, the Obama scheme to provide a wider range of healthcare options for Americans is desperately needed. http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/17/us-usa-healthcare-deaths-idUSTRE58G6W520090917 Let us hope the White House is watching, and serves this report up to the Republicans long, loud and often during the coming election. After all, Harvard is about as good as [...]

As Catholic leaders accuse Gingrich and Santorum of “ugly racial stereotyping”, a few words on the TRUTH about American welfare.

As a bunch of prominent Roman Catholics call on their fellow conservatives in the Republican candidate ranks to stop criticising welfare payments in a racist manner, a quick wander around the internet reveals the truth about who gets what from the American welfare pie. The Myth: People on welfare are usually black, teenage mothers who [...]

Fox’s Republican debate mocks Christian principle

To the bemusement of viewers all over America, and all over the world, Republicans in the audience for the South Carolina Fox/Twitter Presidential debate loudly booed the Golden Rule in the context of foreign policy January 16. Libetarian Texas Congressman Ron Paul was talking about respecting the sovereignty of other nations when it comes to [...]

The End is somewhat Nigher than before

  Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the “Doomsday clock” one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists said Tuesday. “It is now five minutes to midnight,” said Allison Macfarlan, chair of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 [...]

World War III may be about to kick off, virtually un-noticed. Does anyone care?

Libetarian blog “Cut DC” reports Infowars arguing that the US are provoking Iran to act against American interests, like a big bully who keeps pushing and taunting a small kid until the diminutive target is filled with rage.  Just one weak act of defiance and the bully smashes the little boy with his seemingly justified [...]

Fox News in shock – they DON’T run America

Those lovely people over at at Fox News just don’t get it. They smear Obama for three years … secretly a Muslim, giving in to the Ay-rabs, wrecking the economy, not born in America, actually a Kenyan, a secret socialist (lol) … and all the rest of the crap that they actually make up, or [...]

Bachmann talks, er, crap.

Republican candidate Michele Bachmann got a little carried away in the GOP candidates debate. Not the first time the right in America haven’t let a few facts get in the way of their point of view in recent times. Not all are quite as clumsy as this, however. BACHMANN: “President Obama has the lowest public [...]

Jon Stewart for President?

I watched The Daily Show on TV last night with my daughter. A truly inspired piece entitled “World of Class Warfare”, after billionaire Warren Buffet was accused of class warfare for daring to suggest that the uber-rich in America should pay their fair share of income tax. Sadly, I can’t link to it here, because [...]

Methinks Biden doth speak too soon?

Quote of the day: “The United States is hard-wired for innovation. Openness, free exchange of ideas, free enterprise, and liberty are among the reasons why the United States, in my view, is at this moment the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.” – Vice President Biden in China, speaking about America’s ability to [...]