cfact.org Federal and state energy policies, now pushing electric vehicles on a reluctant public, are running in conflict with other social and environmental restrictions banning vital materials and component imports. As a consequence, U.S. and European auto companies are racing into Chinese rare earth monopoly and other supply
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com A couple of years ago, a new editor was appointed to one of the world’s leading medical journals, JAMA, or the Journal of the American Medical Association, and its network of associated journals. Dr Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is the
Jared Mondschein Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Donald Trump’s political obituary has been written many times. His dominant performance in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries marks one more instance of him outlasting those who counted him out. While Trump has yet to officially clinch the
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz RELATABLE The Hurricanes Poua women’s rugby team have changed tack today, announcing a brand new haka with a somewhat less divisive message than what they’d come up with previously. The team are in hot water after originally customising their normal haka to have a
Mary Hackshaw On the 22nd of February I had a pleasant surprise. A week and a half after widespread blackouts hit Victoria following a summer storm, cutting off power to 530,000 homes and businesses, we had a 38-degree day. Perfect conditions for the grid to collapse with the
Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com The recent decision to let a violent activist go free and with name suppression after repeatedly
Haidar Khezri Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, University of Central Florida Since the 2022 death of Jîna Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman held in police custody for wearing her hijab inappropriately, Iranian demonstrators have protested against the repressive regime and the surge of executions of ethnic and religious political
Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. newsbusters.org Scott Pelley is most notorious in recent years as
Louis T. March Louis T. March has a background in government, business, and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author, and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. mercatornet.com First off, it’s
Cruz Marquis Cruz Marquis is a former US Marine, a current economics student, and the administrator of TheConservativeCritique.com. fee.org Since the protests against the usurping military junta turned deadly three years ago, the brutal ethnic civil war in Myanmar has raged. In order to staunch the mounting manpower
Richard Shaw Professor of Politics, Massey University Although the notion of a government’s “first 100 days” in office is constitutionally meaningless, it has become part of the modern political lexicon. Ever since US president Franklin D. Roosevelt used the phrase to usher in an era of unparalleled congressional activity
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.realitycheck.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Willie Jackson is an illogical, irrational, hypocritical political clown. (He once called me an anti-vax, climate-denying racist so I
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Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com A significant story in the US about the new Google Gemini AI appears to have received little to no mainstream coverage in NZ’s media. Yet the story raises an important question of whether you should trust Google. They’ve been exposed for being woke and
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz SOOTHING INFLUENCE A fiery Chris Hipkins let his passion get the better of him in parliament last week, as he railed against the evil “Coalition of Chaos” for overturning Labour’s magical smokefree laws. “The members opposite might be shaking their heads about the fact that
Augusto Zimmermann mercatornet.com Augusto Zimmermann is professor and head of law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education and served as associate law dean at Murdoch University. He is also a former commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia. He is the co-author with Gabriël Moens AM
