Headlines Thursday 23rd October

Trade union mini-me joins Labor circus
Piers Akerman
THREE months ago Unions NSW secretary John Robertson said: “This Government is a disgrace when you think about the campaign they ran.”
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Mark it in your diary
Andrew Bolt
Some victory. But let’s hold Wayne Swan to his claim:

TREASURER Wayne Swan has declared victory in the war against inflation as the rate hits 5%, double the Reserve Bank’s target…
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Covering up for Belinda
Andrew Bolt

Politicians are sure reluctant to police their own. Check the video and tell me how Belinda Neal escaped being found guilty by her colleagues of misleading Parliament:

EMBATTLED Labor MP Belinda Neal has been heavily criticised by a powerful parliamentary committee, with even her own colleagues claiming her behaviour fell “far below” acceptable standards....

(But) Ms Neal narrowly escaped a finding she deliberately misled Parliament, one of the most serious charges that can be made against MPs.
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Don’t argue
Andrew Bolt
Utterly, utterly absurd:

A DEFAMATION expert yesterday warned warring families to watch what they say after a woman who called her in-law a paedophile during a “family feud” was ordered to pay him $30,000 in damages.
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Who now polices the freebies?
Andrew Bolt
Is Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon setting police officers a bad example by accepting a freebie of her own - a $30,000 trip to Los Angeles?
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McCain rises
Andrew Bolt
Almost all the media coverage of John McCain has painted him as the loser who should apologise already. So it says something about the refusal of voters to buy the media line that we get polls now like this:

The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
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Henry’s defence: Not warning, but ignoring
Andrew Bolt
Even the papers which buy the Henry line can’t make it sound convincing
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Turnbull wrong. Reserve Bank DID back dud plan
Andrew Bolt
Ken Henry denies The Australian’s report that the Reserve Bank hadn’t supported parts of the Rudd Government unlimited guarantee of bank deposts
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Green plan meets jobless hordes
Andrew Bolt
By 2010, says JP Morgan?

AUSTRALIA’S jobless rate will more than double between now and 2010, when over one million people are expected to be out of work, as the global economic slowdown weighs on China, a leading international bank says.
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Conservatives blamed for what they tried to stop
Andrew Bolt
Economist Paul Sweeney blames conservatives for the financial crisis:

Just as the collapse of the Berlin Wall signalled the end of Communism, so the collapse of Wall Street (the Wall was actually removed in 1699) has signalled the collapse of neo-conservative economics.

He’s far from alone in the Left, of course, in cackling over the ruins, convinced he’s staring at evidence of conservativism’s disgrace. But let’s go back to September 30, 1999, to see how the Left-leaning New York Times welcomed the biggest single political factor in the disaster that’s now unfolded::
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.