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Top 7 Presentations to Watch

bobmccoskrie.com Last week I joined 1,500 delegates from 72 countries in London for perhaps the largest gathering of social conservatives & centre-right leaders in recent times – the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) inaugural conference. As ex-Deputy PM of Australia, the speaker at our Gala Dinner recently, and member

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Banishing Ghosts after the Past Three Years

Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org My wonderful wife handles all of the Halloween planning for our family. She arranges the costumes, the candy, puts up the decorations, and manages the inevitable costume parties. This year my wife chose

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Numbers of MAID Are Increasing

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com In 2022, 13,241 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – 4.1 per cent of all deaths. The advance of MAID has been astonishing. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in 2016, there have been 44,958

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The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In a 2016 interview, Stephen King was asked if he had “a personal favorite” film adaptation of one of his stories. The first movie out of the bestselling author’s

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We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get

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Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

A controversial headline, perhaps, but designed to spark debate. I will attempt to justify it with some facts, both positive and negative; however, the negatives outweigh the positives by some margin. The 2023 election is of course a true result of an election run under the MMP system, but I

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

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

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Of Ghosts, Politics and Elite Fads

Of Ghosts, Politics and Elite Fads

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

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A Road We Do Not Want to Go Down

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

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Does Learning Te Reo Make You Virtuous?

Does Learning Te Reo Make You Virtuous?

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.

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

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

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Sex Sells, but Not to Gen Z

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

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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

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What Is different? What Is the Same?

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

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