Maha Al-Hujailan, Al-Watan, a reporter with Arab News, raises some issues about sending teenagers overseas for education. One of the bad habits that our students take with them when they go abroad is the culture of sexual harassment. They cannot take this culture to America. American woman can easily report sexual harassment to authorities. Saudis [...]

As expected, the British Home Secretary Charles Clarke has launched an appeal against a High Court ruling that David Hicks, who has been in US captivity since late 2001 when he was captured fighting for the Taliban, was entitled to British citizenship and that it should be conferred without delay. The Brits show bipartisan displeasure [...]

All the media can come up to fill their daily ‘what is wrong in Iraq and here is proof that it is a civil war’ quota is a story about some prisoners having a stoush. AT least nine prisoners and guards were killed in a gun battle at a Baghdad high-security jail overnight after detained [...]

PHILIP Ruddock is treating the controversial national identity card as the “the next cab off the rank” for the Howard Government’s security agenda following the passage of its tough anti-terrorism laws. I know there is a lot of opposition to an identity card but for the life of me I cannot imagine why. Unless you [...]

MELBOURNE’S 10 terrorism suspects are spending Christmas in solitary confinement, dressed in “Guantanamo Bay orange” and banned from touching their loved ones. With about 23,000 prisoners in gaol over Christmas, some of whom are incarcerated for victimless crimes, I am less than sympathetic about a brace of potential mass murderers being deprived of liberty in [...]

AN Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil. You’d think in three years of being betrothed the guy would’ve got to first base at least once. Talk about buying a pig in a poke.

I wish a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to my supporters, detractors and those I have yet to meet and call on all of you to remember that whereas we differ in opinions we still live in a great country. Adrian at A man of Lettuce has a nice human interest post with [...]

I have included a link in the left hand column that is the script of a speach given by Haim Harari, an Arab with perhaps more credibility than most of the armchair warriors of the Left who espouse the theory that it’s all the US’s fault. It’s a short pdf file (10 pages) and well [...]

I have linked an article by Mianda Devine on the left hand column and will leave it there for awhile to remind us of what the Cronulla riots are all about. Do read it.

FORGET about maneating dingoes, poisonous death adders and sharks that can swallow people whole – British backpacker Scott Osborne reckons the most deadly things on Fraser Island are four-wheel-drives. The 25-year-old camper woke up in sand dunes on Monday morning to find a Toyota Land Cruiser on top of him. Except he wasn’t on the [...]