*So much for the ad nauseum debate on whether the Governor General is Australia's Constitutional Head of State. According to the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy a unanimous High Court decision in 1907 clearly shows that:
The Governor is the Constitutional Head of the State, and the Governor-General is the Constitutional Head of the Commonwealth.
Perhaps the ACM might have told us all this a bit sooner and spared us a lot of tiresome public debates.
*Daniel Larison at Eunomia reacts to Jeffrey Lord's column in The American Spectator by noting that among other things:
how utterly bizarre it is for a conservative columnist to write admiringly of RFK and his utopian use of the line, “I dream of things that never were and ask ‘Why not?’” The conservative answer to that question is, of course, because those things have never existed before and are not likely to exist in the future. That’s why not. Take Arab democracy, for instance–please! It has never really existed anywhere, and there are very good reasons why it has never existed. Arab societies appear to lack the habits, social structure and political traditions that are amenable to the creation of such a political regime. More basically, other things seem to take priority over the establishment of such a regime; even if they are theoretically suited to the regime, they may not do what is necessary to create it. The reality that something has never existed is a good indication that it probably cannot be brought into existence. The conservative takes the lack of precedent for something to be as meaningful and important as the inheritance of precedents. RFK’s quote of Shaw should horrify conservatives, and if Mr. Bush can be said to be following RFK’s lead conservatives should be horrified by Mr. Bush.
*Steve Sailor in a recent article in the American Conservative discusses Robert Putnam's recent findings that a multicultural community is a distrustful community.
*The Chief Imam of Australia has apparently decided to do his bit to prove Steve Sailor's conclusions. In this video of Sheik Taj Aldin Alhilali's interview on Egyptian television (courtesy of J.F. Beck) he called Australians liars, blamed the harsh sentences of gang rapists on racism and American pressure, and claimed that Muslims had more right to live in Australia than those descended from convicts. According to the Sydney Morning Herald "Prime Minister John Howard has laughed off the comments, saying they would likely amuse Australians." Some Australians who are not amused include Tim Blair, J.F. Beck and Mark Richardson.
*Former Nationals Senator John Stone's article in Quadrant on how to reform Australia's immigration policy including banning Muslim immigration is looking better everyday.
Yours sincerely,
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.
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