An article written by Sheree Trotter (Te Arawa) in 2017 and reposted by the Israel Institute of NZ a few days ago has some good observations. Gaza is ruled by Hamas, a Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organisation that does not recognise Israel and whose charter calls for genocide. Hamas is the political
As I previously wrote for The BFD, human foibles of class and prejudice persist even on the spiritual plane. It’s notable, for instance, that ‘past lives’ invariably show a bit of cachet: everyone’s an Egyptian priestess; no one’s a plumber from Grimsby. Similarly, ghosts are notably posh
Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. mercatornet.com A handful of philosophers through the years have trotted out the idea that parents should be required to get a license to raise their own children. After all, doctors and plumbers
bassettbrashandhide.com A week before election day, TVNZ’s John Campbell went to a polling station in Otara, South Auckland, to lie in wait for voters. When he encountered a young Maori woman who was about to vote for the first time, his trademark gushiness was unleashed: “Mere is nineteen.
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 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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
