Salman Rushdie: "You can find shame in every house"

They put this guy on our stamps? Mr Anti-bourgeois-bohemian-socialist himself! 

No more will I attempt to struggle through Peter Carey's wordy tosh. In truth, he probably did his best work in the advertising industry while still a young bloke. But now this! As an Australian I find Carey's anti-PEN dribble rather embarrassing. As a member of the civilised world I would have to say, well, ditto: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/australian-author-peter-carey-protests-charlie-hebdo-award-in-new-york/story-fn9412vp-1227323974792

Anzac Day 2015

Here is the article I wrote about the Anzacs, which appeared in the Spring 2015 edition of the Salisbury Review: http://darylmccann.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/spitting-on-anzacs-salisbury-review.html

The Kurdish man who has defused 2,000,000 Islamic State mines

Hoshyer Ali (courtesy of BasNews)

I check the BasNews site at least once a day. Here is a current story: http://www.basnews.com/en/interviews/2015/04/23/meet-the-kurdish-man-who-has-defused-two-million-mines/ 

Sultan's Knish's "The Death of the Left"

Daniel Greenfield writes so well, doesn't he? http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/the-death-of-left.html

Masih Alinejad & My Stealthy Freedom

I am thinking that Masih Alinejad might be less a postcolonial feminist than a freedomist in the War of Freedom. Here is the link to her Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/posts/1128769420470484

The War of Freedom: A muslim champion against anti-Semitism

Siavosh Derakhi on the cover of The Times of Israel

Siavosh Derakhi stands against the tide: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/218286/a-muslim-champion-in-the-fight-against-anti-semiti/

The Long War Comes to Lebanon

Here is the link to my new article at Quadrant Online: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/04/long-war-comes-lebanon/
It is also to be found in the April 2015 edition of Quadrant magazine: http://quadrant.org.au/subscribe/

Gunter Grass: Allergic to all ideologies (except modern-day leftism)

The late Gunter Grass' first novel, The Tin Drum, was a perfectly good read

Here is an interesting bio, one you might not find in the MSM: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193980#.VSxPnWZ4JsY

How Can One Man Get It So Wrong?

Peace for our Nuclear Time

Here is the link to a piece I wrote for Quadrant Online about Barack Obama and Iran: http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/04/can-one-man-get-wrong/

Andrew Bolt Defends Freedom of Expression

Australia's leading op-ed writer, Andrew Bolt, has defended the right to freedom of expression in this country: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_sneering_at_reclaim_australia_doesn/

Australian arrested for simply wanting to play his role in the War of Freedom

Courtesy of Sky News: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/04/05/former-nt-leader-returns-from-fighting-is.html

How long before people - including conservatives - realise that we are in the midst of a civilisational war: http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/former-labor-party-president-matthew-gardiner-arrested-at-darwin-airport-20150405-1meqhx.html

Easter Sunday 2015

Photograph: Daryl McCann

Here is the link to an electronic version of Frank Morison's Who Moved the Stone? http://www.gospeltruth.net/whomovedthestone.htm 

Good Friday 2015

The Crucifixion, Isenheim Altarpiece, by Matthias Grunwald

Here is a link to an article on Lee Strobel, the investigative journalist who lost his faith in atheism: http://www.christianpost.com/news/former-atheist-lee-strobel-follows-up-to-ricky-gervais-easter-message-49886/

Soft left celebrities are not "the people" but "some people"

Whatever

Showbiz people are showbiz people and all power to them...no, I take that back. Showbiz people are showbiz people and lots of money to them. But we do not want to be a party to their PC crap as they rip off the people in the name of the people. In that sense, at least, shame on them: http://junkee.com/jay-zs-marketing-campaign-for-tidal/54422   

Egyptian culture pervaded Ancient Israel after Exodus

This is a fascinating piece about the discovery of antiquities in Israel: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Egyptian-culture-influenced-ancient-Israel-before-Exodus-unearthed-antiquities-reveal-395874