Headlines Wednesday 28th May

Our generation deserves more, Mr Rudd
Pensioners are feeling betrayed by the Prime Minister, according the Alan Jones, as this eloquent listener's letter shows.
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Lessons of Iraq
Andrew Bolt
Historian Victor Davis Hanson on Iraq:

Q: Some people have said Iraq is the worst blunder in the history of American foreign policy. What do you say when you hear that statement?

A: Two things come to mind: One, people must not know things that we’ve done in the past.... Whether it’s the Civil War, or the First World War, or the Second World War, or the status of American armed forces in August of 1950, we’ve made so many more blunders and we reacted so much more slowly to correct them than anything we have seen in Iraq…
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Britain regrets what Rudd can yet stop
Andrew Bolt
Some warnings to Kevin Rudd, already under fire over petrol prices, and with his carbon tradings price-hikes yet to come.
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I don’t pay prime ministers to shine shoes
Andrew Bolt
Trying too hard - it was never a problem for Mr Howard, but then he had a wife, not a business partner, and he wasn't so vain as to require all that Rudd desires. - ed.
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Nelson pumped
Andrew Bolt
IT’S the rule. If an idea comes from Brendan Nelson, it stinks.

And when that same stinking idea turns out to embarrass the Rudd Government, expose its spinning and cripple its plan for a new greenhouse tax, well . . . let’s move right along.
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Prejudices stripped bare
Andrew Bolt
THERE must be excellent reasons to let an artist strip and photograph a 13-year-old girl so rich men can hang pictures of her bared breasts over their beds.

There must be - for why have so many seemingly cultured people been so hot to defend Bill Henson?

But here is the odd thing. In their stampede to justify Henson’s right to make sexually charged pictures of naked children they’ve given us none.

In fact, ever since police last week knocked on the door of the Sydney gallery that was about to show the acclaimed Melbourne photographer’s latest works, I’ve read only excuses for excuses from Hansen’s apologists.

It’s as if the tribe of opening night habitues feel they should stick up for these pictures of budding bare-breasted 13-year-olds without quite knowing why. Their brains can’t justify what mere habit insists they must, and in this collision of reason with prejudice they’ve bruised themselves badly.
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If it’s good enough for Caravaggio…
Andrew Bolt
The arts world is agreed: if Caravaggio did it, then it’s OK for Bill Henson to do it, too.
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Throwing petrol on Rudd’s fire
Andrew Bolt
So much for Kevin Rudd’s Fuel Watch when it’s achieved these results in the one state where it’s been tried:

THE Federal Government’s much-vaunted FuelWatch scheme has proved a fizzer, with petrol more expensive in Perth than Melbourne or Sydney.
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My mother was no criminal
Andrew Bolt
A habit I despise, and particulary objected to as a smoked-out child, trying to hold my breath:

SMOKING in cars carrying children could be banned by the end of the year under a plan being considered by the (Victorian) Government…
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Money in search of an idea
Andrew Bolt
What does this work out to per good, practical, original and implemented idea:

THE Federal Government has spent nearly $2 million on April’s 2020 Summit and the bills are still coming.
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Lowitja stolen yet again
Andrew Bolt
Lowitja O’Donoghue just can’t resist the temptation:

I am from a Stolen Generation...

It’s not true, of course. As she confessed to me in 2001, when I confronted her with the evidence that she’d in fact been abandoned by her parents to the care of missionaries
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Blowing in the wind
Andrew Bolt
The United Nations’ carbon trading scheme turns out to be billions of dollars for no result - to the surprise of no one
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Sloppy work, in a boom
Andrew Bolt
I sense the zephyrs of change, blowing in from the north:

The Queensland budget is a week away, but the state Treasurer has already broken what is expected to be the worst news…

When Andrew Fraser delivers his first budget next Tuesday, a predicted $269 million surplus will have turned into a $995 million deficit.
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'Camden decision was racist': People of Greenacre speak out
People on the streets of Greenacre, home of the Malek Fahd Islamic School, have told LIVENEWS.com.au they believe the decision not to allow the construction of another Islamic school in Camden was influenced by racism.
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Liberal backbencher booted over FuelWatch furore
The petrol controversy has fuelled the tempers of members of parliament with an Opposition backbencher being booted from the chamber during question time.
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D'Arcy saga drags on despite appeal dismissal
The Olympic future of Nick D'Arcy remains in limbo, despite a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for sport.
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ICAC finds Beth Morgan acted corruptly
A newly-released ICAC report has found former Wollongong city council planner Beth Morgan is guilty of "serious corruption”, over the $100 million Quattro development.