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Who Is Tim Cook to Lecture on Freedom?

Who Is Tim Cook to Lecture on Freedom?

You’ll forgive me if I decline to take moralising lessons on democratic freedoms from billionaires whose corporations run on Chinese slave labour. At last year’s Academy Awards, Ricky Gervais reminded the audience that, while Apple made self-righteous TV shows “about the importance of dignity and doing the

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Aucklanders Flocking to Queenstown in $750m Luxury Buy-up

Aucklanders Flocking to Queenstown in $750m Luxury Buy-up

This government’s response to Covid may have wrecked many businesses and lives but a luxury development in the well-known wine region Gibbston Valley, not far from Arrowtown and Queenstown, has shown us that not everyone in New Zealand is hurting. The long awaited Gibbston Valley Resort’s first

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Ardern Keeps Tiwai Point on Life Support

Ardern Keeps Tiwai Point on Life Support

For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from

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Should We Trade Our Souls to China?

Should We Trade Our Souls to China?

“I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn’t know you would sell out your country and your soul… to the slime of humanity” Prof. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There’s been plenty of back-and-forth over

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Restricting Free Speech on Social Media May Be a Slippery Slope

Restricting Free Speech on Social Media May Be a Slippery Slope

Jon Miltimore mercatornet.com 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: The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The

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Conservative Leaders: Tech Companies Pose Existential Threat, Must Be Broken Up

Conservative Leaders: Tech Companies Pose Existential Threat, Must Be Broken Up

NB Staff newsbusters.org Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell and more than 30 conservative leaders issued the following statement Monday calling for the breakup of Big Tech companies including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple after their sweeping acts of censorship against conservatives and President Donald Trump this past

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Twitter Shares Plunge After Trump Ban

Twitter Shares Plunge After Trump Ban

Get woke, go broke: it’s a truism that’s none the worse for being repeated so often. Truisms are just that, after all. With dreary repetition, corporations prostrate themselves at the altar of a loudmouth clique of leftist extremists and get hammered where it hurts: on the bottom line.

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Amazon Shuts off Parler’s Servers Midnight Sunday

Amazon Shuts off Parler’s Servers Midnight Sunday

John Matze Founder/CEO of Parler and iPhone developer. Interested in friendly discourse. Las Vegas | Dad The media tried to claim that “The Insurrection” was organized on Parler. There are quite a few problems with this. 1) Parler has no way to organize anything, Facebook groups were used heavily to

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