Paul Sheehan
Paul Sheehan is a columnist and editorial writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he has has been Day Editor and Washington correspondent. He is the author of two number-one best-sellers, 'Girls Like You' and 'Among The Barbarians' and been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times and numerous anthologies.
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Fiscal civil war needs Honest Al
Paul Sheehan If Lincoln does not win film's triple crown at the Oscars, I will be surprised.
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Meanwhile, life goes on but mind the speed bumps
Paul Sheehan A law firm sent the following advice to its clients in December, which, in keeping with so much advice from government bureaucracies, local councils and human resource departments, was unnecessary,...
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In assassination's aftermath, a real political master emerged
Paul Sheehan If this is the time when people sit back and relax and, hopefully, even read, spare a thought for the greatest biography ever written, a commanding work of research, insight and narrative power which...
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Muddying waters on way to polls
Paul Sheehan It was no doubt keenly noted in the Prime Minister's office that even though Barack Obama enjoyed a decisive 55 per cent to 45 per cent advantage over Mitt Romney in this year's presidential...
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As the left sides with Muslims, Christians search for support
Paul Sheehan Martin Place is the symbolic centre, the point zero, of Australia's existence as a sophisticated economy. Last Wednesday it looked medieval.
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Lives lost currying US favour
Paul Sheehan Thomas Dale, 21, killed by a bomb. Grant Kirby, 35, killed by a bomb. Jason Brown, 29, shot dead. Tim Aplin, 38, killed in a helicopter crash. Ben Chuck, 27, killed in a helicopter crash.
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Plugging away pays off for marathon man
Paul Sheehan 'We were very, very disciplined, there were no outbreaks, we had cohesion, we were contained, everybody stayed on message,'' said Senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells, who won re-election as the head of...
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Obama's healthcare a time bomb
Paul Sheehan As I wrote this column, and as you read it, the United States had reached the climax of the most contentious and sweeping attempt at social engineering in more than 40 years, a process that has...
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Facts conveniently brushed over by the global warming fanatics
Paul Sheehan Here are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day.
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Runaway Republican truck wreaks havoc
Paul Sheehan ''You can't stop the truck! You can't stop the truck!'' The chant went up in Boston as several thousand people gathered to celebrate the end of Barack Obama's political supremacy.
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Shock loss in Massachusetts ends Obama euphoria
Paul Sheehan At 9.20 pm today, in Massachusetts, or 1.20 pm on the Australian east coast, the era of Obamamania abruptly ended.
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Those waging war on society shouldn't have access to its law
Paul Sheehan Wootton Bassett is a model English town. The name is redolent with connotations of village life, farmers' markets, tiled roofs and doughty values.
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Peace prize becomes a travesty
Paul Sheehan Long before the Nobel Peace Prize was debased and trivialised into an episode of American Idol, the failure beneath the soaring rhetoric of Barack Obama had been exposed.
