Category Archives: History

Like it or not, Putin wins casus belli comp – and it isn’t close

Posted on 10 May, 2022 by C.L.

Anyone care to argue his national security rationale for war is less credible than America’s?

Posted in History, War and peace | 21 Comments

He can handle things! He’s smart!

Posted on 9 May, 2022 by C.L.

HE isn’t dumb, like Michael Kroger says. He’s smart and he wants respect! Always described as a “Liberal power-broker” – which isn’t a compliment given the Victorian party is powerless – Kroger surprised me last week when he proposed an … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections, Federal politics, History | 54 Comments

The Black Zelensky

Posted on 5 May, 2022 by C.L.

Like Russia, Australia is threatened when a nuclear superpower buys the house next door. It was in response to the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 that … Continue reading →

Posted in History, War and peace | 20 Comments

Not eligible for the decoration, she nevertheless earned a VC

Posted on 25 April, 2022 by C.L.

Legendary heroine: WW II nurse Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel’s incredible tale of survival.

Posted in History, War and peace | 7 Comments

Calm Reason vs. Manic Dogmatism

Posted on 10 April, 2022 by C.L.

Video: Bill Maher on Ukraine and Putin is spot-on. To Ben Shapiro, however, WWII can never end.

Posted in Culture, History, War and peace | 2 Comments

Rooted Reforms

Posted on 30 March, 2022 by C.L.

We have what they call ‘opposition’ to the pope. It’s trying to build walls, going backwards — looking to the old liturgy or maybe things before Vatican II. Vatican II is unknown by many of the young generation. So it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Religion and faith | 5 Comments

Anti-Putin neo-cons mourn woman who killed 500,000 children

Posted on 24 March, 2022 by C.L.

• Mariupol theatre with children sheltering ‘appears to be a direct attack’ on civilian target. • Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies. • Clinton, Obama lead tributes. Ms Van Schaack, ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fake news, History, Hypocrisy of the left | 10 Comments

100 years ago today, Queensland’s Upper House was abolished

Posted on 23 March, 2022 by C.L.

The trade-off: fewer politicians on the dole vs. executives that can get away with almost anything.

Posted in History, State politics | 29 Comments

Reports of Pax Americana’s death may indeed be exaggerated

Posted on 21 March, 2022 by C.L.

But reports of Biden’s dangerous incompetence are not: Keith Windschuttle: The Causes of War.

Posted in History, War and peace | 14 Comments

‘Audit’ officials may place a disclaimer next to engine replica

Posted on 20 March, 2022 by C.L.

Loco: ‘Rooted In Colonialism and Racism’ – National Museum of Wales ‘Cancels’ Steam Trains.

Posted in History, Innovation and technology, Left-wing extremism | 5 Comments

Not since it snapped up the Third Reich’s rocket scientists has the United States been so generously disposed to actual Nazis

Posted on 13 March, 2022 by C.L.

• Via Greenwald: On the Nazi Maidan Revolution: The Heartbreaking Irony of ‘Winter on Fire’. • The new left-wing hotness: Putin worse than Hitler. “Hitler did not use chemical weapons.”

Posted in History, Left-wing extremism, War and peace | 12 Comments

A far better man than his quarry, he took no pleasure doing it

Posted on 12 March, 2022 by C.L.

Justice: Mario Teran – the Bolivian soldier who shot dead revolutionary Che Guevara – dies at 80.

Posted in History | 7 Comments

‘We are experiencing the psychological weaponisation of war’

Posted on 9 March, 2022 by C.L.

Arta Moeini has written the best essay yet on this subject: How Western elites exploit Ukraine.

Posted in Fake news, History, War and peace | 3 Comments

Liberals Ban Liberals

Posted on 9 March, 2022 by C.L.

• Liberal Democrats lose High Court bid to keep party name. • High Court fight as Liberals, Labor force minor parties to change their names. Our team has been pretty surprised at how aggressive the government has been in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections, History, Legal affairs | 13 Comments

He translated Missile Crisis cables for Khrushchev and JFK

Posted on 7 March, 2022 by C.L.

Jack Matlock Jr was also the last US Ambassador to the USSR. A man worth heeding on Ukraine.

Posted in Foreign policy, History, War and peace | 3 Comments

One Glorious Day In Sevastopol

Posted on 7 March, 2022 by C.L.

Peter Hitchens: I saw what was coming. That’s why I won’t join this carnival of hypocrisy.

Posted in History, War and peace | 12 Comments

Ghislaines To The Great Man

Posted on 27 February, 2022 by C.L.

TALENTED biographer Troy Bramston has written a new work on Bob Hawke and he promotes it in today’s Weekend Australian with three teaser articles. The book’s vanilla revelations do matter for the chronicles but, prima facie, are not very interesting. … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Media, Politics | 31 Comments

Table Talk With The Donald

Posted on 25 February, 2022 by C.L.

If you move against Ukraine while I’m president, I will hit Moscow. All those beautiful golden turrets will be blown up.” (To Vladimir Putin). . “Any military move against Taiwan would be met with an attack on Beijing.” (To Xi … Continue reading →

Posted in History, US politics | 16 Comments