Don't give up on hope. Work to earn money. Unless you don't earn much money and live in a welfare state like Australia. Then you may see that earning $500 will benefit you $100 for some low income earners. That is a statistic from Australia's treasury highlighting how lower taxes are better for the consumer. The ALP are grandstanding on people being paid less, but at higher rates on Sundays. Malcolm wants to be loved. If Gay marriage passes, then Malcolm can retire knowing he was the equal of 'sorry' Kevin Rudd. Meanwhile a NYT journalist, Steven Greenhouse is concerned a volunteer child got face time with President Trump for mowing the White House grass. Via Morgan Begg

I was privileged to go to an IPA and Menzies Research Centre event in Melbourne tonight. A panel discussed a speech by Frank Furedi. The panel included Calum Thwaites and Bella d’Abrera. The issue discussed was the curtailing of thought at university by identity politics. Bella, an IPA researcher, was able to give validation to Frank's broad brush strokes, and Calum could speak as a victim of an HRC abuse of power which had him classed as a racist for commenting on a thread on FB in 2013. Frank's initial thought was that the to and fro of robust debate in the 60's and 70's was now entirely dominated by the left. My question was "When did conservative leaders become so timid that such abuse of power is now left unanswered?" I knew the answer, but found their response telling.

Seated in front of me was Senator James Paterson, whom I'd asked for help earlier in the year, and he unfriended me on FB. To be fair, James has played a leading role in fixing the abuse of power of the HRC in Calum's case, and my issue is above his pay grade. The correct answer regarding the left's abuse of power is that it is historic and ever present. One can point at lots of things from the French Revolution onwards (and before then too, but it is acknowledged that is when modern history began). However, conservative leadership failing to address abuse of power like that committed by the HRC on Andrew Bolt and those university students is recent and directly attributable to Malcolm Turnbull. Turnbull could speak out as a conservative leader on the issue of free speech, except he is compromised and also resorts to power abuse as he has done curtailing debate on same sex marriage during the campaign.

The left wing run universities because conservative leaders let them. They abuse their powers for the same reason. But there will be a reckoning for the abuse of power. One day, universities in Australia will have their public funding cut, and better bodies will be found which accredit students for the work force. But by then, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be a bad memory of the worst Liberal Prime Minister since Malcolm Fraser.

Caroline Glick, Israeli writer, wrote movingly of an arab journalist friend of hers whose life is threatened. At issue is a Jordanian opposition leader she had hoped would put a strong case for Jordan being part of a two state solution. The UN stance on Israel is appallingly bad, and highlights a lack of conservative leadership too, But in reply to her accusation, the opposition leader gave a Turnbull like response, which almost said Caroline was right, but so what? Caroline could not prove anything. But she doesn't need to prove anything, when she has been given a confession.
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