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Has America Run Its Course?

Has America Run Its Course?

Doug “Uncola” Lynn thetollonline.com In this four-minute video below, American young people were asked questions about American history. Listen to their answers and you’ll know how our nation was lost. Even if you only have 30-seconds, start at the 3:54 mark and hear a teacher admit how

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Why the Humanities Must Be Saved

Why the Humanities Must Be Saved

There’s no denying that the Humanities are in crisis at our universities. The question is: what to do about it. There’s one argument that might be called “Technological Philistinism”, which urges the junking of Humanities altogether. Like H. G. Wells’s Artilleryman, with his visceral disdain for “novels

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Should We Bring Back Overseas Students?

Should We Bring Back Overseas Students?

Now that the world is opening up again, the government finds itself under pressure to follow suit, at least in a limited way. Kiwis are now allowed to travel overseas, with the clear understanding that they will face 14 days quarantine on their return (which presumably will not be funded

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Weak Uni Reform Risks Unintended Consequences

Weak Uni Reform Risks Unintended Consequences

The earthquake that’s shaken Australia’s university sector in the wake of the Xi Plague is a prime opportunity to deliver much-needed reform to the sector. But the Morrison government is fluffing it. Australian universities are on their knees, suddenly deprived of rivers of foreign student cash. The growing

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Oxford Fights Back (Maybe)

Oxford Fights Back (Maybe)

[Editor’s note]: There have been questions raised about the original source of the following letter doing the rounds on Facebook. For the purposes of discussion of the points made in the letter, I have reproduced it below. Given the rude tone of the letter, I think that it is

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An Unexpected Reality – Autism

GoingRight Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterised by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviour, speech and non verbal communications. A few days after Christmas, younger daughter and her English husband visited us and let us know their decision to go and live

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The Grooming Going on in Plain Sight in the Classroom

The Grooming Going on in Plain Sight in the Classroom

When the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory first erupted in right-wing political circles, I thought it was the nuttiest conspiracy theory I’d heard since the 80s “Satanic Panic”. In fact, the two seemed almost identical. I still think pizzagate is a nutty conspiracy. But, just because there’s a nutty conspiracy

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Petition of Helen Houghton Ignored

Petition of Helen Houghton Ignored

Press Release: New Conservative “The government is usurping parental rights when it allows the Ministry of Education to teach distorted scientific facts claiming that girls and boys can be born in the wrong body,” says Helen Houghton. The recommendation from the Education and Workforce Select Committee, after receiving Helen Houghton’

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Modern Education

Modern Education

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently I read well know British writer A.N. Wilson’s 600 page tome “After the Victorians” basically a world history of the extraordinarily eventful first half of the 20th century. Of New Zealand, Ed Hilary got a single mention, albeit as part of the

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Letter to a Teacher about Black Lives Matter

Letter to a Teacher about Black Lives Matter

My dear friend I applaud your heart as a teacher knowing that you’re trying to change the world by teaching kids that racism is not ok. And I see you’re trying your best to be a good person, to be inclusive of others regardless of their race and

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No Uni Bailout Without Reform

No Uni Bailout Without Reform

You’ve got to hand it to Australia’s universities: the buggers have got more front than Myers. After years of denigrating Australia, undermining its national security by crawling to the Beijing regime and ruthlessly persecuting any of their students who dared speak out, Australia’s university sector is holding

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Uni Bans China Critic Student for Two Years

Uni Bans China Critic Student for Two Years

The University of Queensland’s persecution of one of its own students reached a nadir this week, with student politician Drew Pavlou suspended for two years. With just six months of his degree to finish, Pavlou seems justified in describing the suspension as “an expulsion for all intents and purposes”

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US Colleges Are on the Take, Too

US Colleges Are on the Take, Too

As the Drew Pavlou saga is exposing for all the world to see, Australia’s universities have been thoroughly infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party. While many academics have at least the poor excuse of ideological sympathy to the communist dictatorship, many others seem merely happy to sell the souls

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