Embracing the Spirit of Thankfulness
We can learn to feel gratitude for our blessing, which we all can find if we look hard enough.
We can learn to feel gratitude for our blessing, which we all can find if we look hard enough.
Several residents said their concerns have been heightened by what they consider the silence surrounding the project. There were no town hall meetings and no public notices to provide information or give locals a voice in the sea change coming to their lives.
The inevitable question is, who benefits from normalising managed decline like this?
New Zealand, like America, must decide whether we will protect the space for robust, respectful debate – or whether we will surrender to a culture of fear where ideas are met not with words, but with violence.
Whatever happened to fighting the system? Nowadays, Boomers seem the most radicalized by it and have become willing pawns in protecting the establishment.
Charlie showed that a true free-speech champion listens, seeks to understand, allows disagreement, and is willing to admit when they are wrong or have more to learn. And he embodied what it means to stand strong in your convictions and share your perspectives boldly.
For science to survive the culture wars, scientists must be willing to evaluate indigenous knowledge without dismissing it outright or accepting its veracity uncritically, but duly evaluating it on merit, regardless of cultural significance.
If we stop exposing children to these hazards in the first place, that would stop the epidemics of chronic illness in children. Now we must summon the political will to act.
Why is the left not examining its own virulence, causticity and bigotry?
Ardern, what you did was unthinkable. You ruled like a tyrant, enforced obedience like a dictator, and left lives shattered in your wake. The punishment you face isn’t a courtroom, it’s reality. You are not welcome in New Zealand.
The Covid-19 royal commission says it has no knowledge of a suppression order that would prevent Labour leader Chris Hipkins from appearing at a public hearing to detail his decision-making during the pandemic.
The more the state does, the more the state is expected to do.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk is yet another sad illustration that too many prefer violence to rational debate.