Headlines Tuesday 20th May

Reality of Rudd sinks in
Piers Akerman
ON Sunday, I swung the family car into a BP service station on Warringah Road at Forestville to top up the tank.

At $1.38 a litre, the price was too good to pass up.

Last Friday, when I drove by, the price I recall was around $1.50, today it is around $1.47.

I was able to squeeze some 25 litres into the Tarago’s tank, costing about $34.50.

If Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson’s promise to cut petrol costs by reducing the excise by 5c had applied, I would have saved $1.25.

That might seem like chicken feed but it runs to $60 over a year and as a member of an ordinary working family, that is $60 I would rather keep in my pocket than hand over to the Rudd Government.

Of course, it is a given that Big Government, like Big Oil aren’t that interested in Ordinary Working Families until they want something - your vote or your money and in the case of the Rudd Government’s first Budget, it is both.
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Gimmick cars for gimmick crisis
Andrew Bolt
When global warming itself is exaggerated, who’s surprised when the “solutions” are, too?
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CNN reports for China
Andrew Bolt
Really, must CNN report Chinese propaganda so uncritically? This kind of pap is to news what Andre Rieu is to classical music. No doubt many Chinese soldiers are doing their best to help earthquake survivors, but just as surely they are being used by the regime as props for soft-focus reports just like this.
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A question for the ABC
Andrew Bolt
The ABC has a new show:
Q&A is a new program which puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. Starting Thursday May 22, 9:30pm with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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They wish
Andrew Bolt
Treasurer Wayne Swan tries to placate pensioners angry at getting little from his Budget
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Can the rest of us have a say?
Andrew Bolt
The links between big business and government are getting far, far too cosy
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Pricing warming pieties out of the market
Andrew Bolt
Green politics is crippling Gordon Brown’s leadership in Britain are surely as it will damage Kevin Rudd’s here once he, too, starts putting price tags on his pieties
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Jihadist admits al Qaeda failure
Andrew Bolt
Nibras Kazimi of Talisman Gate reports
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Sky is not the limit for Flannery’s scares
Andrew Bolt
Tim Flannery didn’t realise global warming would actually stop in 1998. He didn’t realise it would actually rain again in Sydney and fill the dams. He didn’t figure Perth would find more water and not become a ”ghost city”. He didn’t realise there was no proved link between global warming and hurricanes, after all. He didn’t know the sea level rises we can at worst expect this century won’t even reach our knees, let alone the roof of an ”eight-storey building”.

But utterly undaunted, our Alarmist of the Year is still beating the scary drum, with scary “solutions”:

SCIENTIST Tim Flannery has proposed a radical solution to climate change which may change the colour of the sky.
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Sermon on the mount
Andrew Bolt
Reports of Barack Obama’s demise may have been exaggerated
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Media Watch correction corrected
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair corrects a Media Watch correction of a report correcting what wasn’t actually false. If you follow me.
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Chinese censors leave them quaking
Andrew Bolt
About that new ”openness” in China since the earthquake:

Beijing announced that it had punished four people in northern China for spreading rumors on the Internet about the quake, without explaining what the punishment was.
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But if our Government paid off Saudi Christians…
Andrew Bolt
It should be advertised loudly, if not banned:

SIX Australian-based Muslim clerics who are leaders of the Islamic community in the country are on the payroll of the Saudi Government, receiving allowances of up to $2000 a month.

The Saudi Government should also be formally asked by our own for a “please explain” - and perhaps a quiet “desist”.