It's hard to have faith in a politician who plays with the truth and won't tell us how he will make us pay for his promises.

''We will be a no surprises, no excuses government … You could trust us in opposition and you will be able to trust us in government … This election is all about trust.''

the old “have you stopped beating your wife” gambit ….

Western countries, including Britain, are planning to take unilateral military action against the Assad regime within two weeks in retaliation for its alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians in Syria.

This morning on Fran Kelly, the ABC right-wing radio program, and in the the past few days, one has been able to hear our little liar-in-chief, Tony Abbott, doing his earnest to bite his tongue with restraint — as he has been delivering a baggage of policies that DO NOT add up, while hiding the REAL DOGS of conservatism...

When the USSR collapsed more than 20 years ago, right wing academic Francis Fukuyama wrote a notorious article announcing “the end of history”. What he meant was that all the great ideological battles of human history had been settled, free market capitalism had triumphed, and there was nothing of any significance remaining to be fought over.

from our friend Vacy Vlazna

How to lose half a million dollars and feel better in no time.

Not many of us could give away $500,000, then forget we’d done it. Paul Ramsay is one of the few.

The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent'

"The torpid languor of one hand washes the drowsy procrastination of the other. Are these phenomena indications of something chronic in the modern state of litigation? Or are they merely acute and atypical breakdowns in an otherwise functional system? Are they signs of a trend, or do they reveal only an anomaly?"

Crazy Murdoch: paving the path to demonise Councils... and eventually remove Councils from the face of the earth by a Liberal Government. When one reads the small print, one should be horrified:

from antony loewenstein ….