Pity Grandpappy who didn’t have to live clean like those poor boys in Iraq.

“I had a beautiful life, but at the same time a tough one,” says former model and “Bond girl”, UN ambassador and global campaigner against female genital mutilation, Waris Dirie.  She is interviewed in today’s Telegraph on the occasion of the launch of her new book, Desert Children.  Working with co-writers she has produced two similar books and found time to establish an Austrian-based foundation dedicated to women, like her, who have suffered FGM.  It is a noble endeavour professionally pursued.

Her journey to this extraordinary life began, of course, in a child’s terror:-

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The lead article at the excellent VDARE website is interesting for several reasons.

First, it is a reply to some recent articles by MR’s own Geoff Beck. It seems that MR, with over a million hits now, is getting noticed.

Second, it discusses in a calm and reasonable way Geoff’s assertion that there are differences in the way that Congressmen of different ethnicities vote on immigraiton issues.

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Feminism is not quite the force it once was here in Victoria. Still, it has a powerful friend in the Attorney-General, Rob Hulls.

Mr Hulls believes that there is an entrenched bias against women in the law and he has set about rectifying it. In particular he believes that an outmoded, misogynistic legal system has sheltered men who commit acts of domestic violence.

So he has enacted a variety of legal reforms, including giving police the immediate power to detain a man accused of domestic violence for six hours.

Given all this, it was a surprise to read the following in the Melbourne Herald Sun:

“Police are being advised to treat Muslim domestic violence cases differently out of respect for Islamic traditions and habits.

“Officers are also being urged to work with Muslim leaders, who will try to keep the families together.”

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Liberals have their own disappointments. For Mark Morford it’s the fact that the Duggars of Arkansas have recently added a sixteenth “spotless white” child to their family.

And so he has written an article of complaint for a San Francisco paper. It’s a fun read, and something of an insight into the left-liberal mindset.

The article has also been posted here, and the Duggars have their own website, with pictures of the entire brood, here.

It can’t get any clearer than this.

The World Bank has released a report heavily critical of skilled immigration into countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Why? There is considerable evidence that such immigration harms Third World nations. Such nations cannot develop when the majority of their university graduates emigrate to countries like Australia.

Consider this. Jamaica loses 85% of its university graduates to the West; Tonga 75%; Fiji 62%; and Ghana 47%.

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Where, dear reader, have we seen this before?

Not Biloxi, right?

A lot of hard things were said back in those turkey-shoot days of Operation Desert Storm, when the fateful decision was taken to cease fire and let the southern Iraqi people rise up and deal with a supposedly weakened Saddam.  The ODS forces were not an army of occupation anyway.  Who today would argue that the cautious voices of 1991 were wrong?

This time round, of course, it was going to be entirely different.  An allied army of liberation - not occupation - would be greeted everywhere with sweets, music and flowers.

Two and half years and tens of thousands of lives after those seminal pictures of Saddam’s statue toppling in Baghdad flashed around the world and the music and flowers seemed a genuine possibility, we are at last told by the military how much longer “liberation” will take.

WASHINGTON - It will take up to two years for the Iraqi army to have the military leadership and supplies it needs to operate on its own, the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad said Friday.

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