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Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 06, 2013 10 Comments
This is a follow-up to our posts about Prisoner X. Our resident reader from Down Under s_dog sent me this link to Andrew Bolt’s blog, An Israeli tragedy, an Australian silence: Greg Sheridan dismisses conspiracy theories in the Ben Zygier case, following the report released...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2013 11 Comments
This is a follow up to yesterday’s post about Prisoner X. I’m not sure there is much greater clarification of why he was imprisoned, but it’s clear he was not secretly imprisoned, as the Australian Embassy was informed, he had a lawyer, and the courts...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 13, 2013 38 Comments
The mother of all mysteries, making Stuxnet look like a B-grade movie, is unfolding in Israel over Prisoner X. The New York Times has a good summary: The story had all the trappings of a spy thriller: an anonymous prisoner linked to Israel’s secret service, Mossad,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2012 19 Comments
From our friends Down Under at The Catallaxy Files, reports of Tea Party Derangement Syndrome, He believes it but does anyone else? (emphasis mine): WAYNE Swan has blamed the conservative Tea Party movement in the US for damaging the global economy and contributing to the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 27, 2012 22 Comments
I noted the other day that Obama’s “My First Time” video appeared to be a rip off of a similar ad for Vladimir Putin. The Aussies, however, are claiming that one of their candidates was the first to have a first time experience. From The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2012 22 Comments
down under, these tweets were posted. From a blog you should check out, Cattalaxy Files (“Australia’s leading libertarian and centre-right blog”), which one of our commenters frequents. Be sure to click on embedded links. On guns: In the unarmed country the man with the illegal weapon...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 05, 2012 11 Comments
About two weeks ago Bryan covered the story of Georgia conservative blogger Andre Walker who had been sued by a Democratic politician for reporting the politicians run-ins with the law: Roughly three weeks ago a lawsuit alleging defamation against a conservative blogger was filed in the...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 17, 2011 10 Comments
A headline on the BBC caught my eye today:  The warming wine regions. […] High-value grapes are grown within a narrow climate window, Stanford earth scientist Noah Diffenbaugh said, making them more sensitive to temperature variations than standard crops. In Tuscany, a Florence University study found that...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on March 31, 2011 7 Comments
Kathleen Over at Mises.org, Ben O’Neill has a great post about “discrimination” in the modeling industry. Recently, a model of Indian-descent in Australia tried to make the case that she was being unfairly discriminated on the basis of her race. “One might feel a bit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 26, 2011 9 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: And now we go deeper into the linguistic gymnastics which are required to avoid being called a racist.  Having covered Black Friday, Black Hole, Providence Plantations, Rejigger, Gobbledygook,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 19, 2010 6 Comments
This is rich.  Julian Assange’s lawyers are complaining that details of Assange’s alleged sexual assault have been leaked: Incriminating police files were published in the British newspaper that has used him as its source for hundreds of leaked US embassy cables. In a move that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2010 14 Comments
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: Tonight’s issue came to my attention due to the controversy stirred up in Australia over these two t-shirts: The t-shirts, particularly the one that says “we eat meat,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2010 62 Comments
The U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran on November 4, 1979, was the start of 444 days which came to define Jimmy Carter.  The U.S. government was revealed to be powerless and the President weak.  Those among us who were alive and conscious during those days have embedded...
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