Nathan Smith’s recent article “Let Them Have Traffic Lights” got me thinking about our addiction to the NZ media and the passive acceptance of the six o’clock news as generally accurate. The news must be correct or it would be rejected, right? Ardern prepared us for the Covid
There’s a meme doing the rounds: “The year is 2024. Your electric car won’t start for 48 hours because your status on social media was deemed too offensive.” What ridiculous, conspiracy theory nonsense! Except that, like too many “conspiracy theories” today, it’s just a few weeks at
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. On June 22, Jordan Peterson penned a tweet commenting on a recent gender transition surgery undergone by an actor who now goes
Michael Senger brownstone.org Michael P Senger is an attorney and author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. He has been researching the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on the world’s response to COVID-19 since March 2020 and previously authored China’s Global Lockdown
Written by Family First staff writers familyfirst.org.nz Over the past weeks, we’ve seen disturbing Government over-reach and directives into the beliefs of Bethlehem College, plus the unjust removal of Family First’s charitable status (primarily for their beliefs on marriage). There has also been a disgraceful hate
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com In the Q&A interview with Jack Tame this weekend, he made a statement to the effect that Greenpeace’s research had met the standard of education because it had been peer-reviewed. Ours hadn’t. That’s why they got charitable status and we didn’
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Many Twitter users press the “publish” button knowing their thoughts could get them kicked off the platform. Or worse. Just google the names “Roseanne Barr” and “Justine Sacco” for Exhibits A and B. Liberal celebrities don’t have that fear. They can say almost anything on
Like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, the political elite seem to think that truth is whatever they say it is. The question is who is to be master — that’s all. So, when Jacinda Ardern declared that she would be “your sole source of truth”, what she was really saying
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
familyfirst.org.nz Thank you to the (literally) thousands of you who responded with words of encouragement Tuesday – our inbox and social media was exploding! – and with financial support. We are truly humbled by the outpouring. (Perhaps we should send flowers and morning tea to the Charities Board for all
Family First The Supreme Court in Wellington has just handed down their judgement in Attorney-General v Family First New Zealand, and the Government and the Charities Board have won the right to deregister Family First as a registered charity. “This decision is a sad day for the freedom of speech
Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Have you been wondering why there is so little debate about co-governance in the daily papers, on television and
Never let it be said that the left can’t deal with the important stuff. After all, America may be collapsing into impoverished violence, with soaring inflation, spiralling gas and food prices and armed thugs attempting to assassinate Supreme Court justices, but Joe Biden did pass an anti-lynching law. That’
After Christopher Luxon stifled Simon O’Connor’s personal view, I searched for National’s stance on freedom of speech. All I can find is Simon Bridges (as Opposition Spokesperson for Justice) in June 2021: The National Party encourages open debate and discussion as this leads to people being better
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