When Donald Trump will be sending Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents to blue, sanctuary states to solicit help from local sheriffs and other police forces, the only response he may get is ...

"Elegant" is important for successful innovation, as two recent energy examples show. In one an elegant advance appeared out of the blue, surprisingly, unexpectedly, rapidly dominating the competition ...

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Energised electrons (electricity) are devout followers of the Laws of Nature; they do not bend to any ideology, fashion nor to any act of a parliament. Ideologies have to bend to the Laws of Nature ...

Saudi Arabia's state-owned international news channel Al Arabiya has denied me access to its website - apparently for the sin ...

Dirk is a writer who lives in Tasmania. He is conducting post-graduate research in education at the University of Tasmania and is the author of author of several books, including 'How to be a man' ...

Hamas' horrific October 7 attack and Israel's massive retaliatory war have fundamentally changed the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. New political, psychological, and factual regional ...

The realities of ASEAN as a regional political grouping are not encouraging. It could be argued that the stature of ASEAN has been on a downward trajectory, since the end of Thailan's Dr Surin ...

The Arctic is coming in from the cold. President-elect Donald Trump has reopened the question of the US acquiring Greenland. This is the third US attempt. The Trump comment has focussed attention on ...

But you can't be properly culturally Christian if you don't understand Christianity. As I have argued, Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity. If you want to fight back against ...

This writer published a book some years ago Ending War which argued that war is an endemic aspect of human nature (with some convincing evidence). He asserts on another OLO blog, Do we have free will?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers blame the rising cost of living on everything from the war in Ukraine to the former Coalition government and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.