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Co-leader of the Greens, Marama Davidson, described herself as a ‘peace activist’ before launching into a speech filled with anti-Israel rhetoric. She also repeated her self-titled ‘peace activist’ throughout. […] with multiple examples of inaccurate allegations being claimed, along with saturating her allegations with apparently unironic usages of terms such as
Sex Sells, but Not to Gen Z
Sex sells is one of the oldest rules of both advertising and Hollywood. But, for many young people today, it appears that’s less and less true. Gen Z has already been noted as being far less interested in sex than their predecessors. And they’re less interested in seeing
NY’s Migrant Issues Not Good News for Biden
Kelli Ballard libertynation.com President Joe Biden’s overall approval rate continues to drop – down to about 40 per c ent on average, according to the latest polls tracked by RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight. His handling of the illegal migrant crisis certainly isn’t helping, either, especially in New York, where
What Is different? What Is the Same?
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late ‘nineties ’90s
How Can People Think This Way?
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
They Will Change Maori Politics
Annie Te One Victoria University of Wellington The 2023 election saw a changing of the guard in Maori political representation. Several parliamentary stalwarts lost their seats to members of the “kohanga reo generation” – Maori under the age of 45 whose school years coincided with the revitalisation of the te reo
A Migrant Windfall: Nine Grand Each for Housing in Chicago
Joe Schaeffer Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers staring at
What Happens to Students with Near-Perfect SAT Scores?
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Stanley Zhong did everything right. A 4.42 weighted GPA (3.98 unweighted). A 1590 SAT score (1600 is perfect). He’d even launched his own startup (RabbitSign). Yet the
We Need to Free Gaza from Hamas
Our next guest grew up on the West Bank where his father was a founding member of Hamas. He was groomed to take a senior role before he turned on the terrorist group in prison. Spying for Israel now, converting to Christianity and ultimately seeking asylum in the US, Mosab
Always Thinking With Our Dicks
What is it with humans and dicks? Freud was famously obsessed with phallic symbols. Urban warriors paint dicks on potholes to force councils to repair them. There’s a whole doodling board game dedicated to, well, drawing doodles on dicks. The Australian Electoral Commission has even confirmed that drawing a
What Are We Trying to Escape?
Susan Carland Academic, author and social commentator Whitney Monaghan Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts Davide Orazi Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Monash Business School Michael W Clune Author; Knight Professor of Humanities, Case Western Reserve University Clem Bastow Author and cultural critic lens.monash.edu Everyone wants
We Need to Regain Our Human Decency
David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in
NZ Police Are Using AI
Alexandra Sims University of Auckland theconversation.com The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by New Zealand police is putting the spotlight on policing tactics in the 21st century. A recent Official Information Act request by Radio New Zealand revealed the use of SearchX, an AI tool that can draw connections
Who Is Involved in the Solar Industry?
Miles Pollard Miles Pollard is an economic policy analyst with the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Behind those harmless-looking solar panels harnessing the sun’s power lies a disturbing secret: Roughly 80 per cent of