(I should point out that in effect every post is an “open house”, since there’s never been any objection to off-topic comments in CR.)

Trade Experts: Trans-Pacific Partnership ‘Vehicle to Pass Obama’s Climate Change Treaty’
“Separation of powers”? pfft, who needs it?  Congress is a rubber stamp.

‘Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim’

‘..But with the socially progressive Malcolm Turnbull in charge, the game has changed and for many women, so has their vote … Women are hugely influential politically for one simple reason: women love to communicate. In person and on social media. All the time. About everything…’
MALCOLM MANIPULATES MOLECULES
Gawd ‘elp us! And there was I, thinking politics and Fairfax wimmin “writers” had reached Peak Stupidity…

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Another danger of ‘climate change’: Giant flying boulders?
California freeze: -11° in Sierra amid snow and ice…
JUDGE RULES AGAINST 13-YEAR-OLD IN CLIMATE CHALLENGE…
Decade long ice age predicted as sun ‘hibernates’…
POLL: Growing doubts human activity to blame for warming…
Hollande slams ‘scandalous’ Paris climate protest clashes…
FLASHBACK: Temp data fiddling ‘biggest science scandal ever’…
LEADERS GATHER TO ‘SAVE THE WORLD’
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‘Christmas should be cherished, not shunned:
Never one to shy away from scoring a cheap headline, the Race Relations Commissioner has once again caused quite a racket, before belatedly attempting to squash the unrest.
Dame Susan Devoy cack-handedly weighed in on the Christmas debate, by unblinkingly endorsing the asinine position of the Auckland Regional Migrants Service (Arms), who have expunged the word ” Christmas” in favour of “secular” and “multi culturally sensitive” language…’
and:
‘Let’s squash the PC race relations office and move on
I’d almost forgotten about the ludicrous decision to appoint a squash player as the country’s race relations commissioner – till Susan Devoy dropped another clanger.
And what a howler it was….’

‘…It is safe to predict that when 20,000 world leaders, officials, green activists and hangers-on convene in Paris next week for the 21st United Nations climate conference, one person you will not see much quoted is Professor Judith Curry. This is a pity. Her record of peer-reviewed publication in the best climate-science journals is second to none, and in America she has become a public intellectual. But on this side of the Atlantic, apparently, she is too ‘challenging’. What is troubling about her pariah status is that her trenchant critique of the supposed consensus on global warming is not derived from warped ideology, let alone funding by fossil-fuel firms, but from solid data and analysis…’
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‘Muslim men rape non-Muslim women (and girls) in disproportionately high numbers in countries with growing Muslim minority populations. Rape of infidel women is part of Islamic law and Islamic tradition. As such, it’s been going on for centuries.
….The sickness that has taken over Swedish culture is so shocking that in one case where a Somali Muslim was found guilty of raping a dying woman to death (which is horrific enough), the judicial system refused to send him back to Somalia because they determined he would be just as much a risk to women in Somalia as he would be to women in Sweden. And so Swedish women were disregarded out of deference to Somali women…’
Islam, rape, and the fate of Western women

Weak, confused and ‘unable to grasp’
‘…“Unable to grasp.” That will be the epitaph for the Obama presidency. When an American president says he wants to “lead from behind,” the enemies in the Middle East, and there are many, take him at his word and naturally assume that he means he wants to fool about on the margins, make speeches, play a little golf (or a lot), insult those who disagree with him and accuse them them of base motives. Commanders in chief no less than privates and corporals can decamp from sworn duty. Barack Obama’s great weakness is that he has never understood America, nor does he apparently want to. The globe is good enough for him.’
(bold mine)