Given that the entire world’s leaders have foolishly decided to criticise your magnificent election, I shall take it upon myself to congratulate you on a job well done! Goodness knows nobody else will be calling you (assuming the phone lines still work?) with warm wishes.
It has been a hard and tough-fought campaign. The opposition ran [...]
The next G8 summit shall be taking place in the same prefecture as me in just a few days, and the folks of Hokkaido are fully embracing the ‘ECO CHALLENGE!’ encouraged by various state and private entities through a variety of mediums. Indeed, by trading in those ring-pulls and bottle caps you can offset carbon [...]
It did not come as a surprise, yesterday, to hear that Morgan Tsvangirai had decided at last to withdraw from Zimbabwe’s fatally flawed presidential run-off election. Only a fool or a masochist would have continued in the face of such brutal violence when the pre-defined outcome was already so heart-breakingly obvious; and Tsvangirai is neither. [...]
How does one deal with Iran? Follow a dogged diplomatic track at the expense of any potential military option that might be available and risk having a nuclear-armed Iran at the end of it, or do you use military force as a bargaining tool with every intention to use it?
The Washington Institute’s featured article covers [...]
… lest someone still consider there to be any shred of political freedom in Zimbabwe, there truly isn’t. I sometimes get the impression that politicians and general public seem to evaluate each outrageous crime Mugabe commits as a kind of vindication that, yes, there is a tyrant at work. A sort of “See what he [...]
This kind of puts the Oscar Pistorius debate in perspective. There are very few sports in which the only factors at play are “natural” ones:
It can take years to develop a new swimsuit material from scratch for competitive swimmers, but with just weeks to go before the Olympics, Japanese manufacturers are trying to do just [...]
Life in the corporate world is rough. Despite its unpleasantries though it hasn’t destroyed my belief that free enterprise in a lawful environment is still better at creating sustainable wealth than any grand central government engineered projects or thinking. If anything my belief’s been oddly reinforced, both because I’ve grown older and wiser and, more [...]
I dislike insipid and vacuous attempts at ‘caring’ at the best of times, but it’s becoming depressingly apparent that the internet has resulted in a new breed of insincere sincerity: Facebook humanism. Believe it or not, this isn’t a piece on Facebook itself. So before you navigate away from here, let me explain this striking [...]
Ron Paul’s economic advisor, Don Luskin, has left to join the McCain campaign. I don’t know much about Luskin, except that Paul Krugman once accused him of stalking, and he seems to share Ron Paul’s gold bug tendencies, which makes me nervous. However, the merit of Luskin’s economic views is irrelevant here. What interests me [...]
64 years ago today the Allied forces began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe; by running through the mine-laden beaches of Normandy in the face of heavy German fire. The events of that day are well-known to anyone with even a passing interest in history, but needless to say, the courage of those brave troops involved [...]
Perusing the Fin24 website for some fairly recent articles on property price forecasts reveals two partly amusing and somewhat sad statements:
Property near “bottom of cycle”
House prices in for soft landing
Who knows though, perhaps FNB and Standard Bank are right? I just find such comments hard to reconcile though against the most recent release from the [...]
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[L]ocal viewpoints on local/international affairs. That they aren't brain-dead like most local self-confessed 'intellectuals' is a bonus.
- Fifteen Minutes
[I'm] glad to report the arrival of a new blog written by a couple of 'conservative-libertarian' South Africans. Commentary is both well written and prolific and very much worth a visit.
- Southern Cross
[A] great new South African blog. Commentary.co.za brings us libertarian views on South Africa...
- Way South
Probably the busiest (in terms of number of postings) blog is Commentary... They write on everything from politics, sport, time travel and more.
- Fodder
Commentary.co.za is a fantastically well-written site with an indepth insight into South African politics. If you want the lowdown on what's happening in the corridors of power, this is the place to read it. These guys know their stuff.
- Cherryflava
Pompous, geeky and holier-than-thou.
- Gabbahead
