News from the traps, and Bolt

Bread and butter politics Piers Akerman
LAST July, then Opposition leader Kevin Rudd made what is now known as the “Cost of Living Speech” at Melbourne’s Cranbourne Secondary College.
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Rise of the barbarians Andrew Bolt
Other states reporting equally alarming rises in juvenile violence
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What is it about the vacuum? Andrew Bolt
Elizabeth Farrelly types more words in the Sydney Morning Herald
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Crook show Andrew Bolt
I’m with the judge, especially after the recent Mick Gatto circus
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Costello isn’t burning bridges yet Andrew Bolt
Writing a political memoir is usually a way of saying goodbye. But it could also be a launching pad for a fresh assault, if it isn’t nasty to colleagues, which is why this is interesting
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Blue over blue men Andrew Bolt
China has different orders to the blue-tracksuit men than the ones Kevin Rudd claims he’s given:
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“Best and brightest” say they were conned Andrew Bolt
Evidence grows that the 1000 “best and brightest” were there as Labor props, not prompts
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Column - Rudd’s mates steer the ship Andrew Bolt
WHY bother with voters? Kevin Rudd now takes his cues from a hand-picked elite.
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Column - 2020 summit ideas lost in Nimbin Andrew Bolt
I ADMIT, I spent 10 hours of my weekend watching our “best and brightest” at the ideas summit designing our future, live on television. Before I pack my survival gear, let me describe just what I saw . . .

I saw our Governor-General bring in an ice cube from Antarctica, which was worshipped. And then it got worse. What follows is absolutely true.
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As if we didn’t know Andrew Bolt
An Age columnist and fill-in ABC host confesses:

Man, we loved to hate Howard. Back in the good old days of 2007 it was wall-to-wall leftie love-ins of hatred. The hate brought us closer together.

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The GST idea Rudd quietly got Andrew Bolt
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Democrat bloodletting continues with Clinton win Andrew Bolt
Hillary Clinton wins - but not enough to do anything but hurt Barack Obama, who has the Democrat nomination sewn up, on a delegate count at least
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Mad Islamists demand credit for satanic Zionist plot Andrew Bolt
You know the despair a satirist feels when he’s hears something so crazed on so many levels that he can’t even begin to respond? From YNet
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Our own university madrassas Andrew Bolt
The sponsorship of our university departments of Middle Eastern studies by Middle Eastern regimes may lead to more such complaints
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Can you help save a life? Andrew Bolt
It’s a remote possibility, but Natalie and Bruce are pleading for help to save their son Ryan, dying of leukemia. Have yourself tested and be put on the bone marrow registry, so a boy like Ryan may find in you the match he needs to live.
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Why shouldn’t Rudd obey? Andrew Bolt
Chris Berg of the IPA is astonished, in one way, by Kevin Rudd’s hasty decision to go visit Japan soon, after all
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It’s global cooling that’s the real threat Andrew Bolt
Geophysicist Phil Chapman warns we really may face doom, and sooner than you think - from global cooling