Local news roundup

* Rosie O'Donnell comes out of the closet ... as a 9-11 "truther". Unhappy to accept the standard explanation for the twin towers collapsing, she joins other paranoid conspiracy theorist celebrities like David Lynch, James Brolin, Richard Linklater, Jesse Ventura, Matthew Bellemy, Ed Asner and Charlie Sheen.

* Kevin Rudd promises to throw $4.7bil into high speed broadband. Treasurer Costello labelled it economically irresponsible. The latte-sipping socialists at The Age are running a poll, where 78% support the plan. The welfare state grows ever larger ...

* Fresh from re-election, the Victorian ALP have suddenly decided to introduce tougher water restrictions in just 4 days. Households can only water gardens in the mornings on 2 days per week, between 6am and 8pm. The nanny state grows ever larger ....

* I've stumbled across a new libertarian Australian blog, called The Daily Reckoning. There is great commentary on economics, and the damage of socialist regulation to the stock market. This one is going straight to my links in the sidebar.