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Should We Ban Offensive Words?

Josie Pagani Political Commentator commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room Puffin – the jolly-sounding publishers of Roald Dahl, recently teamed up with the less jolly inclusive minds, to update Dahl’s books for children. ‘Keeping them relevant for a modern audience,’ they said. Well, sounds

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What to Consider When Voting

What to Consider When Voting

The Ponderer When thinking about who to vote for, we usually focus on policies – and policy is obviously very important. However, there is another very important consideration we can often overlook, one that is becoming particularly serious right now. International geopolitics are currently very tense. Tensions are rising between the

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Dr Baker Was Interviewed on Tuesday

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com A reporter in the field took one for the team and listened bravely to Sean Plunket. She reports at this link. Dr Michael Baker was interviewed on Tuesday after the government announced the dropping of all covid restrictions. I commented on

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Helping New Zealanders to Be Better with Money

Stephen Agnew University of Canterbury theconversation.com Even as an economics student at university, I remember heading into town on a Friday night knowing what I needed to pay the bills before I could spend on socialising. But despite having the financial literacy to know better, Monday could still sometimes

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CDC Now Refusing New Reports in Its V-Safe Program

CDC Now Refusing New Reports in Its V-Safe Program

David Gortler Dr David Gortler, a 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, research scientist and a former member of the FDA Senior Executive Leadership Team who served as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on matters of: FDA regulatory affairs, drug safety and FDA science policy. brownstone.org The

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Should Africans Bow to an LGBTQI+ Agenda?

Mathew Otieno Mathew Otieno is a Kenyan writer, blogger and dilettante farmer. Until 2022, he was a research communications coordinator at a university in Nairobi, Kenya. He now lives in rural western Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, from where he’s pursuing a career as a full-time

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Let’s Consider the Real Threat to Freedom

Gary Bauer Gary L Bauer is an Opinion Columnist at The Patriot Post, and is one of America’s most effective spokesmen for pro-life, pro-family, and pro-growth values. Bauer is a frequent guest on a wide variety of political talk shows and a much-in-demand speaker

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When CIA Propaganda Is Dressed as News

When CIA Propaganda Is Dressed as News

Caitlin Johnstone ronpaulinstitute.org CNN has a new article out titled “Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners,” and it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect if you’ve been critically observing the Western mass media over the last several years. An anonymous

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A Tale of Two Fires

Lawrence W Reed Lawrence W Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real Heroes:

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To Carry On Is a Miscarriage of Justice

To Carry On Is a Miscarriage of Justice

Dr Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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The Creation of the Alphabet

Yehezkel Laing Yehezkel Laing is a journalist, actor and filmmaker living in Jerusalem. aish.com For a hundred years scholars have been searching for the mysterious people who created the alphabet. Has the answer been under their nose all the time? The alphabet is such a basic part of our

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Covid Controls, the Cello, and Me

Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Six years ago, fate had me stumble across a YouTube video of Mischa Maisky playing the Sarabande from Bach’s first cello suite. I don’t know why, but I decided to rent

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Down the Slippery Slope (Part 3)

Down the Slippery Slope (Part 3)

C J Hopkins C J Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. consentfactory.org So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain. The Berlin District

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What Happens Next?

What Happens Next?

James Fite Editor-at-Large. James is our wordsmith extraordinaire, a legislation hound and lover of all things self-reliant and free. An author of politics and fiction (often one and the same) he homesteads in the Arkansas wilderness. libertynation.com Donald J Trump is racking up the historic firsts.

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Now Australia Needs $1.5 Trillion Dollars

cfact.org Now they tell us: …big spending on renewables needed, says report Australia must find $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade to meet 2050 green targets in an effort experts say would need to mirror the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. By Nick Evans,

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