You may have heard of the Oroville Dam and the fact that residents below the dam are being evacuated in case the emergency spillway fails: The threat of imminent collapse of the Oroville Dam emergency spillway continued to ease Monday morning, hours after authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 180,000 downstream residents upon discovering damage to the structure. […]
Only time will tell if Cory’s move today will have any meaningful impact on Australian politics, but I’m fairly certain that the symbolism of his move alone will make an impact quite separately from any practical impact. Many things can be said about Senator Bernardi, and I happen to like him far more than most […]
Trump has been busy in his first week, and I’ve been more pleased with his actions than I expected to be. And if current rumors turn out to be true, then we might be in for a very interesting 4 years indeed: The departments of Commerce and Energy would see major reductions in funding, with […]
Donald Trump is now President of the United States of America, Commander In Chief of the worlds most powerful military, at the helm of the worlds largest economy, and all whilst maintaining the most confusing hair in history. Who’s making ‘Ginger’ jokes now? His inauguration speech was heavy on optimism and faith in the American […]
I’ve been watching with interest to see whether the British Government would try and weasel its way out of a proper Brexit, and to my surprise, it seems they’ll be honoring the results of the vote and completely exiting from all aspects of the EU, including the migration zone and the economic zone. LONDON — Theresa […]
Potatos are quite the political… hot potato… if you’ll pardon the absurdly contrived pun. For a bit of background about the battle between ‘Potato King’ Tony Galati and the West Australian Government, take a look at this ABC article from 2015: The PMC [Potato Marketing Corporation – That’s right, a government potato industry regulator, in […]
Bill Leak is among the best cartoonists in the world in my opinion, willing to stand up to the politically correct, the perpetually offended, and the prevailing lefty views which permeate journalism today. But he’s just given us a cartoon which surely we can all agree on: As one joker once said to me, “It […]
As title-fights go, this is a big one. A man who has called himself ‘Prince’, vs a government department which has called itself ‘God’. The history of the Hutt River Province is fascinating, and something that I took an interest in some years ago and read up on. I’m a little surprised (although I shouldn’t be) that […]
Governments hate cash. Surprised? Of course not. Governments hate anything that empowers people to operate without their interference or oversight, so cash is ‘Government enemy number 1’. Not ‘Public Enemy’ mind you, no the public seem to quite like cash. Some for the convenience, some for the immediacy, some because they find it easier to […]
Government departments are by their nature very inefficient. They attract people who cannot survive in the wider corporate workplace, they reward people who do the ‘right thing’ by the department rather than by the taxpayers who fund them, and they have no incentive to provide value, and many incentives to ‘need’ more money next year. So […]
