Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 30

Not acceptable, but no easy answers

I do not doubt how hard it is to manage boys so damaged, but this is totally unacceptable:

Vision of the tear-gassing of six boys being held in isolation at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin in August 2014 has been obtained by Four Corners, exposing one of the darkest incidents in the history of juvenile justice in Australia…





The tear-gassing incident was described as a “riot” at the time, with media reporting multiple boys had escaped their...

Productivity Commission appalled: Turnbull just blew $15 billion

Jacob Greber on the Turnbull Government’s outrageous waste of defence dollars which were meant to go on defending Australia, not saving Liberal seats:

More than four decades of success in lowering tariffs and curbing taxpayer-funded industry featherbedding looks set to be cast aside because of the Turnbull government’s decision to build $50 billion worth of submarines in South Australia, the Productivity Commission has warned.

In a scathing analysis by the...

Ansbach bomber was IS supporter

As expected:

The Syrian suicide bomber who injured 15 people in a Sunday night attack on a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, left behind a video pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Monday…

In the video left on a mobile phone, the 27-year-old Syrian announced his threat to carry out an attack “as an act of revenge against Germans, because they obstruct Islam,” Herrmann told a press...

Molan proves why Photios should go

The Liberals let Michael Photios, a lobbyist, interfere with their NSW preselections, promoting duds and demoting talent such as Jim Molan.

The Senate count suggests that Photios is indeed a man of poor judgement who should be drummed out of the party processes.  Dennis Shanahan:

Voters are using the new Senate system in unprecedented numbers to protest against factional selections within the major parties, to defying voting directives and to embarrass...

Baird wags his finger

There is a new authoritarian spirit in the political and media class, just when voters are demanding more say and less bullying.

Brad Norrington describes the troubling case of NSW premier Mike Baird:

Baird is now grappling with a mounting list of political headaches, most self-induced, as he rushes out policy decisions and adopts what is widely perceived as a steamroller approach to implementing them… His critics go further, ­claiming dictatorial edicts...

Had it with Hillary

Even Democrats don’t trust Hillary.

Bernie Sanders supporters at a meeting before the Democratic Convention boo Sanders when he tells them to vote for Hillary Clinton:

And Florida delegates boo the Democrat chairwoman off the stage for having secretly helped Clinton beat Sanders, as leaked emails reveal:

UPDATE

Donald Trump has evened the contest with his convention. Hillary Clinton will hope to do the same with this week’s Democratic convention,...

Slaughter at Japanese disabled centre

Is there a madness virus let loose on the world?

At least 19 people have been killed and 20 injured in a knife attack outside Tokyo, Japanese news agencies are reporting..

A knife-wielding man attacked a facility for the disabled and then turned himself in, police say.

What contempt Andrews shows for Australians and their right to speak

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews demands the Turnbull Government junk its promise to give the public a vote on same-sex marriage:

This will be a harmful, spiteful debate — it will give legitimacy to hurtful views, views that are essentially bigoted.

Terry Barnes in the latest Spectator Australia - get in at the news agents now - says it well about this arrogant and offensive call:

The Andrews letter is ugly, however, and shows its signer’s offensive...

Book finds island home

My book is off on an international frolic without me, having been spotted already in London, Lake Como, Ithaca, Scotland and by the Bay of Naples.  Reader John Stanbridge now takes it on a study tour of Fiji’s Parliament.

To buy a copy for the animal in your life, go here.

The hird edition of the Bolt Bulletin, sent to on-line buyers, has now gone out with thanks, a poem and a little introspection. A point is also made about the Trump critics...

PJ O’Rourke in Melbourne

The legend is in Melbourne:

Have We All Gone Nuts?! PJ O’Rourke Talks Politics in Melbourne

Wednesday, 3 August 2016.





The Centre for Independent Studies is excited to welcome back best-selling American writer and leading political satirist PJ O’Rourke. Join us for a laugh-out-loud evening of trenchant, sometimes scathing political insights; because if you didn’t laugh, you’d have to cry.

With his trademark biting wit and capacity for provocation,...