“Muckraking” has pretty negative connotations in journalism today, but it was coined as a badge of honour. In the early 1900s, “muck rakers” were not cheap scandal-mongers, but investigative journalists who dug deep in areas polite society preferred to avoid, in order to expose the horrors lurking underneath: raking through
Darroch Ball Sensible Sentencing Trust. Stuart Nash, the ‘renewed’ Minister of Police, says he doesn’t think dairies should sell tobacco. Call me old fashioned, but maybe Nash as the Minister of Police needs to focus on ensuring these criminal thugs are caught and held to account, instead of waxing
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Reforms spokesperson New Police proposals for licensed firearms owners include making them pay for the cost of Police attendance at a burglary, the Government wants licensed firearms owners to pay for the privilege of being burgled. Licensed Firearms Owners deserve the same rights as any other
The (in)famous occultist Aleister Crowley was many things, few of them savoury, but stupid was not one of them. Indeed, in his own whacky way, Crowley was quite brilliant. His commentary on the Tarot, for instance, The Book of Thoth, reveals him as a man of tremendous erudition in
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
Gordon Lightfoot whakatakitimes.nz Amid all the destruction in Auckland at the moment due to unprecedented flash flooding over the weekend, one teen showed us that it would take more than a bit of rain to slow him down. Dylan Mathieson, 15, refused to let flooding get in the way
Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org This week, the United States Department of Justice charged in a Utah federal court Michael Kirk Moore, Jr. — a medical doctor — and three other individuals with crimes. The so-called crimes arise from allegations that the individuals helped adults who did not want to take experimental coronavirus
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became
Fentanyl seems to have a strange grip on the public mind these days, as breathless (often questionable) narratives around this drug are everywhere. According to the news media, this mysterious substance is appearing on shopping cart handles, in children’s Halloween candy, in baby formula and even poisoning police officers
I know the whole “Grooming” thing can sound hyperbolic to the point of foil-hat stuff — until the news goes right ahead and proves that it’s true. Once again, the difference between “conspiracy theory” and “headlines” is about a few weeks at best. So, when I argue that schools are
The serial killer as a pop culture phenomenon could be said to have begun with London’s Jack the Ripper, but serial killers really began to grip the popular imagination in America in the late 1960s. Dirty Harry was the first blockbuster entry in the serial-killer-hunting genre (Psycho didn’t
The police jihad against licensed firearms owners continues at pace. Yesterday the NZ Herald ran an article about a figment of the police’s fervent and dimwitted imagination, that “straw buyers” are buying guns to on-sell to criminals. The government had recently banned semi-automatic weapons following the Christchurch terrorist attack
A very sparse article published by Stuff yesterday covers an aggravated robbery on a bus in Wellington late Friday afternoon. Six people were taken in to custody, but five will be referred to youth services. The article reports multiple people were injured but police state no weapons seem to have
The police are forging on with their arms register, assuring us all that everything will work as planned and it will be safe and secure. No matter that people involved in the project are quietly telling others that the project isn’t fit for purpose and that the software selected
Imagine if Bill Cosby was openly offering to supply children with prescription drugs. The outrage would swift and entirely justified. Yet, a male, accused multiple rapist and abuser of women is, indeed, openly offering to supply children with dangerous prescription drugs, “free, no questions asked”. So far, he’s not
Karl Popper, in a much-misunderstood and abused footnote to his The Open Society and Its Enemies, wrote of the “paradox of tolerance”. It’s not a very clear or well-developed argument, but its essence is that, if a society extends tolerance without limit, that will inevitably lead to tolerating the
