ANY fair minded, objective juror would agree that Donald Trump was never guilty of the high crime for which he was so improperly charged. Having achieved more than any other president, at least since Ronald Reagan, there is a widespread hope in the hearts of millions that for the sake of America and of the free world, his best political days are indeed yet to come.
PILATE’S contemptuous dismissal of truth echoes down the ages. Those who, like Pilate, wash their hands while authoritarians try to gag anyone they insist must not speak, ignore what distinguishes civilisation from the evil alternatives. The search for truth is dependent on freedom of speech. As Robert Menzies warned: “Today’s truth is frequently tomorrow’s error…. If truth is to emerge and in the long run be triumphant, the process of free debate – the untrammelled clash of opinion – must go on”.
CANBERRA’S latest folly is a referendum, costing up to a quarter of a billion dollars, to replace the politicians’ oath with an empty pledge without legal effect. Instead, why not bring in real reform and finally make the politicians accountable? The referendum should be to allow Australians to initiate recall elections for non-performing politicians.
THE United States has led the free world for the best part of a century, producing a record number of truly great world leaders, among whom, it can be confidently predicted, objective future historians will unhesitatingly include President Donald Trump.
THE Reichstag fire, Hitler’s justification for dictatorship, was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, while Nancy Pelosi used the Capitol riot as the basis for the Republic’s most farcical impeachment.
“A RIOT is the language of the unheard,” said Martin Luther King in an entirely different context. Purloined by the American mainstream media, it was used to justify looting and burning by the far-Left Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa, effectively the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.
“A YEAR after coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China’s Xi declares 2020 a triumph.” The Washington Post thus approvingly headlined the Communist Chinese dictator’s New Year Address to celebrating crowds ignoring social distancing in the streets of Wuhan, the very place from where Xi released a plague onto an unsuspecting world.
THE adoption of an abortion law so extreme it sanctions the killing of any innocent who dares survive has been greeted by a standing ovation in the Senate. That was the New York State Senate, not Australia’s. But a standing ovation greeted the introduction (by a man) of a hitherto secret abortion bill rammed through the NSW Parliament in 2019.
WHY do politicians so often make decisions based not on judgement but on computer modelling? This is notwithstanding the telling observation attributed to the great Anglo-American statistician, Professor George EP Box, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” It’s like all those pundits and commentators who were sure that based on faulty polls, Bill Shorten would win the last Federal election.
THE free world is looking to the United States with apprehension. Since Churchill handed the mantle to Roosevelt, the US president has been the leader of the free world, its defender against the forces of evil, whether they be Nazi, Communist or terrorist.
