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Houston Helps 25,000 People Exit Homelessness

Houston Helps 25,000 People Exit Homelessness

Ingo Geiger scoop.me Over the past 10 years, homelessness in Houston has dropped by 63%. Double the decrease seen anywhere else in the U.S. The city helped 25,000 people out of homelessness. So what does Houston do better than other major cities? The “housing first” concept gives

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MPs Alert Public to the Danger of Assisted Suicide

MPs Alert Public to the Danger of Assisted Suicide

righttolife.org.uk During a Parliamentary debate on assisted suicide, a number of MPs in the House of Commons alerted the public to the dangers posed by such legislation including the increased feeling of being a burden, the lack of autonomy created by assisted suicide, and the pressure to end

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The Writing of a Book

The Writing of a Book

John Maunder Over 50 years ago, in April 1968, when I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography in the University of Victoria in Canada, I remember very well when on a Wednesday morning the representative from the British publishers Methuen and Co came to see me in

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More than 3 Key Reasons to Open Your Eyes

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science Maurice McGrath PhD nzdsos.com Information Opinion First Key Reason Of 3 key reasons to open your eyes, the first key reason, (indeed a now mounting list of key reasons) was published in the BMJ in January 2022. This key reason arises from

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Challenging Common Arguments in Support of Abortion

Challenging Common Arguments in Support of Abortion

Colin Parkinson The recent overturning of Roe vs Wade has brought a lot of attention back to the issue of abortion here in New Zealand and I have noticed that there is still some confusion not only about our own laws here, but also around a few common arguments used

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How Many among Us Are Suckers?

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Sucker! In early adolescence there are

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Why Do You Have to Be Vaxxed to Gain Entry into NZ?

Why Do You Have to Be Vaxxed to Gain Entry into NZ?

Colin Parkinson Perhaps the following document (released on 6 July 2022) might shed some light on this. Vaccination-Requirement-Non-Citizen-Travellers-Amendments-for-SigningDownload On page 4, Item 9 seems to suggest that there are health benefits to having only “vaccinated” people entering New Zealand, yet it only points

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Clark Caught with Wet Bus Tickets

Clark Caught with Wet Bus Tickets

Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Warning Satire WATCH OUT SUPERMARKETS! Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark is making the big plays at the moment. Clark yesterday announced the new role of Grocery Commissioner to crack down on New Zealand’s supermarket duopoly. Labour have unsurprisingly talked a big game about making a

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Fossil Fuels Save the Day in California

Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,

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We Lost Too Much Freedom, Polls Say

Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global

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Peterson, Rubin Suspended from Twitter as the Culture War Heats Up

Peterson, Rubin Suspended from Twitter as the Culture War Heats Up

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. On June 22, Jordan Peterson penned a tweet commenting on a recent gender transition surgery undergone by an actor who now goes

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Tukaki Like Davy and Vukcevic
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Tukaki Like Davy and Vukcevic

BarnyB123 Information Opinion The controversy surrounding Matthew Tukaki has been in the news over the last week. He is likely to be in the news for a while yet as new facts surface, but then Tukaki will disappear, hopefully never to be heard of again! This type of character is

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A Common Sense Look at 20 Million Saved Lives

A Common Sense Look at 20 Million Saved Lives

Manfred Horst brownstone.org Manfred Horst, MD, PhD, MBA, studied medicine in Munich, Montpellier and London. He spent most of his career in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently in the research & development department of Merck & Co/MSD. A mathematical modelling study from London’s Imperial College, recently published

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They Support Choice If the Pill Kills but Not If It Saves

They Support Choice If the Pill Kills but Not If It Saves

Michal Pruski mercatornet.com Dr Michal Pruski is a Clinical Scientist at the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and a DClinSci candidate in Health Informatics at the University of Manchester (UK). He is academically trained in both basic and clinical physiology as well as in bioethics. After the US

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How Private Is TikTok Really?
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How Private Is TikTok Really?

David Tuffley Griffith University David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity at Griffith University’s School of Information & Communication Technology in Brisbane/Gold Coast. When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media

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Do You Trust Your Doctor?

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Have you ever felt you don’t have anywhere to go? Where would you go if you or your family got sick? Who do you trust for medical advice? Is the care you are getting determined by industry-controlled national and

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