Hard day

Start here and work your way up the page. A bad day for Atrios to have the TV on.

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Infinite loop – the collected wisdom of Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan, today:
All of this is not to argue for inaction. It seems to me there are four obvious things we can do. First, we can go along with, as well as trying to influence through persuasion rather than example, what becomes the consensus position of the developed world. Carbon still has no price in [...]

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Frenemy CJ

The guy who ran as the Liberals’ candidate against Kim Beazley Sr. in 1969 is, someone would have us believe, a friend of the Left. The evidence? Well, Richard Ackland likes him (Bolt’s brain: “friend of my enemy is my …?”). He disagrees with Janet Albrechtsen (Bolt’s brain: “enemy of my friend is my …?”). [...]

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Coalition unanimously agrees that climate change policy exists

Now that the Opposition have gathered and banged their heads together, can they start to make sense? Let’s ask Brendan:
“Australia in implementing an emissions trading scheme can only do so when it’s ready to be implemented,” he said.

And, as a corollary, you cannot implement it if it is not ready to be implemented. Logical, eh?
So, [...]

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What seems to be the hold-up, officer?

At around 8:30 am today, I posted a response to “Peter K. Anderson aka Hartlod(TM)”’s hilarious reply to my request for Bolt to acknowledge and correct his use of erroneous data (Shorter Hartlod – “Bolt’s readers are not sheep and will read any information themselves before deciding what they think. But I’m not going to [...]

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You have to be cruel to be kind

Some folks are saying (contrary to the empirical evidence) that mandatory detention served as a deterrent for illegal immigration and that relaxing immigration laws is a risky proposition.
Philip Ruddock, on the other hand, says that it is because of his “Pacific solution” that the immigration laws can now be reformed:
Mr Ruddock says the current Government [...]

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I’ll put my hand up

Tim Watts asks:
Does Brendan Nelson have a shred of credibility left?
 

No.

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Google Reader question

A few weeks back I switched from using Bloglines (the Beta version) to Google Reader. I’m largely happy with my decision, but there is one thing I miss that perhaps I can fix somehow.
Does anyone know whether it is possible to get Google Reader to display an updated item as a “new item”? If I [...]

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I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

The Department of Justice’s ethics office has found that staff of the Department of Justice (in particular, the favoured lackeys of Alberto Gonzales) broke the law by making hiring decisions on political grounds [PDF of full report].
Among the wonderful revelations from this report – Monica Goodling, an aide who rose quickly in the Gonzales DoJ, [...]

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Bravo

Labor has had to bear the responsibility of introducing mandatory detention. I am very pleased that it can also claim the credit for doing away with it.
ELSEWHERE: Senator Evans’s speech sets out the plan for reforming detention policy. There is commentary from both Andrew Bartlett and Tim Dunlop. As Tim notes, the Opposition has responded [...]

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