Ben-Peter Terpstra

Ben-Peter Terpstra


  • September 22, 2010

    European voters reject multiculturalism

    The BBC appears distressed. Bad news for Islamic fundamentalists:The latest is the Sweden Democrats. With over 4% of the vote they passed the threshold to enter parliament and now have 20 seats and potentially hold the balance of power.Seems like a p...

  • September 3, 2010

    The Coulter-Homocon controversy

    I like Joseph Farah. I love Ann Coulter. But Joseph Farah's attacks on the rights of conservatives to speak at "gay" events, like Homocon, are fabulously inconsistent. For the record, I oppose "same-sex marriage" because I oppose ...

  • August 31, 2010

    GOP tops Dems in generic ballot by unprecedented 10 points

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  • August 30, 2010

    Newsweek on 'Model Citizens' in New York

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  • August 29, 2010

    Poll: Iraqis miss Bush strategy

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  • August 23, 2010

    China - not hot on 'global warming'

    From the Telegraph's James Delingpole (so it must be fascinating): One of the great lies told us by our political leaders in order to persuade us to accept their swingeing and pointless green taxes and their economically suicidal, environmentally van...

  • August 21, 2010

    New Jennifer Aniston movie celebrates 'fatherlessness'

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  • August 11, 2010

    Australia's Prime Minister and her socialist past

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  • July 29, 2010

    A carbon tax is for history deniers

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  • July 4, 2010

    Fairtrade coffee is a 'loud bandwagon'

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  • June 24, 2010

    Stop hiding millions of Christians.

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  • June 3, 2010

    'Gun control' fails the UK again

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  • May 10, 2010

    Aussies more skeptical of climate change

    Is the science really settled? To the chagrin of global warmers everywhere, two-thirds of Australians now doubt and/or reject Al Gore's end-of-the-world warming theory. So, how will Australia look like to Obama on his trip Down Under next month? A re...

  • April 28, 2010

    Hawking sides with aliens over humans

    The warming alarmist Stephen Hawking's theology fits nicely into his Gaia faith:One scene in his documentary for the Discovery Channel shows herds of two-legged herbivores browsing on an alien cliff-face where they are picked off by flying, yellow li...

  • April 20, 2010

    Humble, pragmatic, Obama? Not.

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  • March 27, 2010

    Turn on your lights and celebrate 'Human Achievement Hour'

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  • January 15, 2010

    Reid's fake 'praise me' apologies

    The conspiratorial Harry Reid is no stranger to the fake apology (Reno Evening Gazzette, Friday, Jan 24, 1975): Apology acceptedMAYBE IT IS unique - and certainly it is unusual - for a person to apologize to newspapers.So said unsuccessful U.S. Senat...

  • January 12, 2010

    PBS Newshour and the art of Obama propaganda

    Under the unintentionally funny heading, "Fights for the Arts" PBS's NewsHour states: Rocco Landesman is known as the producer who brought hits such as "Angels in America," "Big River," and "The Producers" to B...

  • December 24, 2009

    Aussies fight political correctness at Christmas

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  • December 16, 2009

    'New York Times, 128 years of looming polar doom: '

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  • December 4, 2009

    Earth Day, 1970: Twenty years to live!

    Ask a believer: What's the difference between climate alarmism and child abuse? If he pauses to think for more than one second, then that's too long. Conservatives are American thinkers. Liberals are American feelers.  Remember Earth Day, 1970? ...

  • November 30, 2009

    Climategate: An inconvenient whistleblower

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  • November 28, 2009

    Down under, global warming is a free speech issue

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  • November 25, 2009

    Australia: anti-cruelty advocates target Islamic animal sacrifice

    "Multicultural Australia" isn't what you think. Currently, tensions are building between Islamic fundamentalists and anti-cruelty advocates with international implications. The dream of "integration" appears just that -- a dream....

  • November 24, 2009

    Kiwi challenges Gore's 'settled science'

    Lesson one: when green Leftists try to shut down a democracy it isn't because they can defend their arguments, it's because they can't.   Free speech also means nothing, without open public debates. So, what gives Al Gore the right to decla...

  • November 11, 2009

    Climate Change Blackmail (1976)

    Climate change as a reason to ship money for the developing world is not a new idea1976:... The CIA report says the changes will mean India will suffer a major drought every four years, resulting in the possible starvation of 150 million people.China...

  • November 1, 2009

    Princeton professor: 'I ought to torture a terrorist' to save New York

    ‘Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influential.' -New Yorker Professor Peter Singer. Self-identified vegan. World-famous liberal philosopher. Educated at the University of Melbourne and...

  • September 27, 2009

    Bono: Africa's best spokesperson?

    If you're an African, you're probably not all that comfortable with a Euro-pop celebrity speaking on your continent's behalf. At least that's how Max Bankole Jarret feels. From Reuters in the Vancouver Sun:"For most Africans it's a turnoff when ...

  • September 24, 2009

    Actor Hugh Jackman to save Africa

    The Sydney Morning Herald informs us that entertainer Hugh Jackman is bringing his star appeal to talks at the New York Climate Change Week: Jackman is an ambassador to World Vision, and has seen firsthand the hardships of people in Africa ...

  • September 20, 2009

    Carter projecting his own racism on others

    Jimmy Carter is projecting his own racism onto opponents of ObamaCare. Upper-class Democrats have traditionally charged their enemies of racism in the post-war era to distract audiences from their own ghastly histories. Of course, it is easier for Bi...

  • September 8, 2009

    'Hope' without youth employment

    In 2009, Obamaholics and anyone who loves employment are learning what cheesy campaign slogans – from “Hope” to “Change” – mean. “Yes, We Can!” It sounds so laughably Jimmy Carter-like. This is not 2008...

  • June 29, 2009

    'Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama'

    Advice: Don't put your faith in polls, but don't ignore them either. Historically, pollsters contradict each other and continually favor Democrats. Nor do I believe in polls that show massive liberal leads and speedily close in just before an electio...

  • June 26, 2009

    Eco-illogical

    In the Green Inc. section of The New York Times, James Kanter walks readers through the eco-benefits of naturism. Apparently, nude vacations are green vacations. The Green Inc. section, ironically enough, seeks to promote issues relating to "Ene...

  • June 17, 2009

    Global-warming: Another religion of peace?

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is soft on the other "religion of peace," global-warming. June 16, 2009: The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia reports: Victoria is considering tougher laws to crack down on eco-terrorist attac...

  • June 13, 2009

    'Global-warming' debate heats up in snowy Australia

    More bad news for Al Gore: Australia's Connor Court Publishing is creating waves again. First the pro-free speech heretics published Professor Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth - a skeptic's guide to global warming, a runaway bestseller. What's more, the...

  • June 10, 2009

    Obama-first mayors lead 14 of 15 most dangerous cities

    When Mayor Giuliani, the feisty Italian-American Republican took charge of New York, he meant business. Crime went down, down, down. Alas, today's big city mayor is more likely to be a soft-on-crime Democrat. What do I mean? When Forbes magazine list...

  • June 8, 2009

    MSM: Sotomayor's experience good; Obama's inexperience good

    Time Magazine sneered at concern that Obama during the election campaign last year. David Von Drehle wrote in the March 10, 2008 issue: Does Experience Matter in a President? Hillary Clinton and John McCain are arguing that Barack Obama is ...

  • May 31, 2009

    Obama's America: There's no place like homelessness

    When a Republican is in the Oval Office, you can count on the media to hyperventilate over homelessness, and blame the heartlessness of the GOP. As America's economy falters under the weight of Obama's policies, homelessness will only get worse. Don'...

  • May 30, 2009

    Joni Mitchell: the accidental conservative?

    If Joni Mitchell is a straight-out leftist, she isn't a very good one. Even Big Yellow Taxi, one of her best-known "left-wing" hits is strikingly polite: "Hey farmer farmer/ Put away that D.D.T. now/Give me spots on my apples/But leave...

  • May 25, 2009

    Nancy Pelosi: Elected women are more ethical than elected men

    The notion of a morally superior, ecologically progressive Nancy Pelosi is prevalent among liberal feminists. Women are always more nurturing and sharing, they say. They are better than those nasty boys. Here's the dirt on Rep. Pelosi's self-praising...

  • May 24, 2009

    Planet Obama: Where Hitler spoke Austrian and Churchill didn't torture

    Obama's knowledge of World War II is laughably simplistic - and I admit to laughing my head off when I heard his comment about Austrian as a language. Europe blushed.  "Austrian? There's no such tongue. No they speak German," I howled....

  • May 23, 2009

    Joan Baez: Free speech for me, but not for thee?

    2008: Leftie anti-free speech singer receives leftie free speech award:The Americana Music Association has announced that cultural icon and seminal American recording artist Joan Baez will receive the "Spirit of Americana" Free Speech Award...

  • May 19, 2009

    Memo to California: Cannabis is bad for your economy's health

    Exactly why a drug linked to mood swings, weight gain and paranoid thinking is popular with angry libertarians and tax-hungry socialists is a mystery.  But at least potheads with glassy eyes have Europe on their side. Or do they? In Holland's Ha...

  • May 17, 2009

    Jimi Hendrix, the right-wing flower child?

    The Charleston Gazette, page 14, May 17, 1969, shines a spotlight on one of the world's most creative guitarists. History's Jimi Hendrix digs conservative West Virginia:"Thank you, West Virginia," he shouted, "you're really out of sigh...

  • May 16, 2009

    Gore tries to close another debate

    Gore wants Cheney to shut up. "I waited two years after I left office to make statements that were critical." Really?In addition to rewriting history, Gore's fascist-like arguments only apply to Republicans.  They don't apply to Democr...

  • May 8, 2009

    Ancient Greece's 'global warming'

    In Heaven Earth (Global Warming: The Missing Science), Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at The University of Adelaide, Australia, asks us to embrace big-picture science views; for to recognize our limits is a sign of maturity. "Climate s...

  • April 25, 2009

    Pia Varma of Laissez Faire Lounge

    When Pia Varma speaks tax-and-tax politicians itch. Is she the Naomi Klein of the free market movement?  Already, the young capitalist is a partner in the PopModal company, a YouTube for conservatives, and most recently she delivered a red-meat ...

  • April 1, 2009

    Hollywood talk: views you probably haven't heard

    It's refreshing when writers, producers, web designers, actors, documentarians and directors bypass the thought police, make politically incorrect statements, and support Americans first.  From the Cold War to the War on Terror, patriotic (and e...

  • March 29, 2009

    The Man Who Fought the Hollywood Reds

    Once upon a time, there was a conservative anticommunist Hollywood, proudly standing up for America.In the 1940s, the director, Samuel Grosvenor Wood, was growing tired of Stalin's friend President Franklin Roosevelt, and rightly so. Hollywood's pro-...

  • March 29, 2009

    Cate Blanchett's 'Do As I Say, Not As I Do' Earth Hour

    Cate Blanchett is a fine actress in the studio, but her real life performances are less convincing.  I can't believe we attended the same university.  Some history: Cate's statements Cate's actionsOne: "Most Australians realise we simp...

  • March 22, 2009

    Condoms don't protect souls

    I was so angry when I read about the attacks on the Pope that I cleaned up my room. Really. If these attacks continue I'll be cleaning up last night's dishes.The Pope is right to advance the truth that AIDS is a "tragedy that cannot be overcome ...

  • March 7, 2009

    Beer is Proof God Loves Us

    I'm with Ben Franklin. Apparently he said, "Beer is proof God loves us, and wants us to be happy." But how do I convince the excitable Muslims? Never mind. Perhaps I need to lead by example. Or promote fairytales. In the unvarnished Little ...

  • February 9, 2009

    Australia's Wildfires: Climate Change or Crime?

    Australia, the dry continent, isn't immune to heat waves. I live in the sweaty southern hemisphere, not Alaska. But, are heat waves always responsible for wildfires? Or is "crimate change" the kangaroo in the room?  Under the subheadin...

  • January 18, 2009

    Jimmy Carter, sage

    Before Al Gore took the glory for inventing the internet, Jimmy Carter liked to pose as an erudite "nuclear engineer." For example here's what he wrote in his "Three Steps toward Nuclear Responsibility" piece for the Bulletin of t...

  • January 17, 2009

    Reality Check: Single Mothers and Ann Coulter's 'Venomous Tone'

    Is Ann Coulter being mean-spirited to single mothers? The famous author is in the news again with a book to sell, and TV presenters are "offended". Or, at least they're pretending to be. Prepare for crocodile tear floods. Lost for words, th...

  • January 16, 2009

    The KKK, Hollywood and President Wilson

    A lack of experience can be misleading...Commander in Chief. Woodrow Wilson was President of Princeton University and a renowned intellectual.  - TIME magazine's spin on Obama's thin record (March 10, 2008) There are some things you need to...

  • January 10, 2009

    30 Politically Incorrect Movie Characters

    Seek and ye shall find politically incorrect movie characters. From working-class heroes to men in spider costumes, they do exist. Really. 1. Detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry. Why: Because sometimes the "politically corre...

  • January 4, 2009

    New Anti-War Students, Same Old Anti-War Placards

    In 1933, Jews were being roughed up in Hitler's Germany, but antiwar students didn't wish to fight like men. WELLESLEY, MASS - A group of Wellesley college girls carried anti-war placards at the annual Armistice Day Service on Wellesley Green. Americ...

  • January 3, 2009

    1938 to 2008: The World's Longest Anti-War Song?

    In 2008's "Back in Vietnam," the singer/seasonal actor Lenny Kravitz sarcastically sings: We're gonna keep on riding`til the enemy's been severedWe'll never turn around, we don't care if it takes foreverMen women children willdie we're all ...

  • December 31, 2008

    Green Inc.

    Read Green Inc. by Christine MacDonald, an environmental insider. In it, the "global warming" believer acknowledges that her "good cause" has gone bad. "Social commentators have for decades criticized the growing gap between ...

  • December 27, 2008

    Alarmism sells newspapers: then and now

    "How and Why Earth Will End?" - The Washington Post Sunday, March 23, 1913 What the hell? Pick your Armageddon. Check out these Gore-like whoppers from the Wapo almost a century ago: Plain Global Plunging: "SCIENTISTS BELIEVE OUR UNIVE...

  • December 26, 2008

    Warning: What Liberal Change Looks Like After One Year

    "Candidate Jimmy Carter said he stood for change." - Associated Press, 11/3/1976Goodness. What a difference a year makes. In fact, a year after Carter's inauguration night, even some Democrats were rolling their eyes. Come, now: Let's ...

  • December 22, 2008

    Blago and Milosevic

    Controversy and Blagojevich are no strangers. Six interesting points from this 1999 article:- Blago, the only Serbian-American in Congress, wasn't afraid to share coffee and Marlboro cigarettes with Slobodam Milosevic, the "butcher" for a p...

  • November 12, 2008

    The Missing Obama Landslide

    The results are in: Obama 52 percent. McCain 46 percent. The "Obama Landslide" is pure fiction. Republicans have no reason to move to Harper's Canada (this year) although Berlusconi's conservative Italy looks simply divine. In 1988, George ...

  • March 2, 2008

    America's First Congresswoman

    We hear much about Hillary Clinton as someone breaking through barriers for women. Here's a test. Who was America's first congresswoman, and which party did she belong to? One brave Republican woman: Jeanette Rankin. How many feminists know that Mont...

  • February 23, 2008

    A Tribute to Herbert Hoover, the Anti-Fascist

    Herbert Hoover, who had the misfortune to be in office when the stock market crashed in 1929, has taken far too much blame for the Depression, which Franklin Delano Roosevelt managed to prolong over a decade, until entry into World War II ended unemp...

  • February 9, 2008

    What NBC's 'The Office' Gets Right

    I'm an addict of NBC's wide-open comedy The Office, currently in reruns thanks to the Writers Guild strike. Based on a British series of the same name, the mockumentary introduces viewers to Dunder Mifflin, a paper supply company, and her incomp...

  • January 20, 2008

    The Mature Christian Voter

    You're not ready to call yourself a "mature Christian voter" if ...1. You think Jesus cares about carbon credits. Newsflash: He was a carpenter!2.You think that Jesus calls us to save the earth as opposed to the unborn babies on the earth. ...