Andrew Bolt's Blog, page 33

Turnbull to terror chief: are Islamists just crazies?

I suspect Malcolm Turnbull is attempting to excuse the role if Islam in terrorism by defining terrorists as just mentally disturbed:

The Government’s top anti-terror adviser has been asked to investigate Australian terror suspects’ potential links with mental illness and past criminal behaviour.

The Prime Minister’s request to counter-terrorism coordinator Greg Moriarty is part of a full “lessons learnt” review of Australia’s defences against so-called...

Frankly, I’d rather the author was there

My book has already toured Lake Como, Ithaca and London. Now reader Marcus Procopio takes it to Vico Equense, near Naples, where the book’s volcanic eruptions meet a volcano:

To show the book - or, please, the author - the world, buy your own travelling companion here. Buyers will also get the Bolt Bulletin, the third edition of which has been delayed for personal reasons. I will get cracking soon.

Cruz crumbles

Ted Cruz made himself look small and now makes himself look bitter. What a blunder:

US Senator Ted Cruz has staunchly defended his decision not to endorse Donald Trump, saying he is not the Republican presidential candidate’s ‘servile puppy dog’ in a damaging rift at the party’s convention ahead of the November 8 election.

Cruz, who came in second to Trump in the race for the Republican nomination after a bitter and personal campaign, was booed by delegates...

Abetz: a call to arms. Fight for values

I thought Senator Eric Abetz gave his best and most important interview in many, many years on The Bolt Report last night.

This is a small sample of his call for the Liberals to rediscover its soul and get back to fighting for its core values - such as freedom of speech:

“But there would have been people excited if we said, ‘we believe that family is important in society, that freedom is important, that we love the ethic of the small business sector’,” he...

The great reckoning comes

Maurice Newman, former head of the Australian Securities Exchange, warns that the world faces a terrible depression:

… politicians share responsibility for today’s distorted economy, having recklessly spent tomorrow’s productive capital on consumption. Global indebtedness stands at more than $US200 trillion ($267 trillion), about three times world product, having increased $US57 trillion since 2008.

Yet for all that debt and quantitative easing, in the...

Breakthrough: ABC presenter Ticky Fullerton rejects Waleed Aly’s attack on Sonia Kruger

Even the ABC’s Ticky Fullerton is not buying Waleed Aly’s duplicitous response to Sonia Kruger.

She calls out Aly for saying he wouldn’t pile into Kruger while doing just that, and for treating her as some idiot.

She could have added that his counter-claims were nonsense, and added that Japan, with five times our population but only one fifth our Muslims, has not had one Muslim terror attack since the murder of Salman Rushdie’s translator in 1991 by a...

Book reviewed

In the latest Spectator Australia, in news agencies now, Rebecca Weisser kindly reviews my book, Worth Fighting For.

It starts ominously:

But relief!

To order the book, with regular Bolt Bulletin updates, go here.

Tips for Friday, July 22

Say it here.

UPDATE

My editorial from the latest The Bolt Report - on the Liberals needing to learn from the Republicans and talk values:

Car driven into police station

Reports of a car being driven into the police station at Merrylands, in Sydney, and detonating or catching fire.

No details yet. It could be just an accident.

UPDATE

Police say the car was filled with gas cylinders and driven into the underground car park. No word on whether they actually caught fire or indeed are any threat.

UPDATE

Now we are told he set himself alight. This does not seem like terrorism.

UPDATE

The man was arrested.

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Ted Cruz gives a great speech but for one fatal flaw

Ted Cruz gives a great speech at the Republican convention today about freedom and values.

he also mentions his father again, how he fled from Cuba.

Yes, it was a great speech - had Cruz been the candidate.

Alas for him, he was trounced by the real candidate, Donald Trump, whom Cruz mentioned just one time to acknowledge just that fact.

No wonder delegates started to heckle and boo him for being so ungracious as to refuse to endorse or praise Trump.

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