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How Feds Cracked Down on Project Veritas Journalism

How Feds Cracked Down on Project Veritas Journalism

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Do Poison Pills Work?

Do Poison Pills Work?

Tuugi Chuluun Loyola University Maryland Tuugi Chuluun, PhD., CFA is Travelers Scholar and an Associate Professor of Finance at Loyola University Maryland. Tuugi conducts research in corporate finance and international finance and has authored academic articles as well as an international finance textbook. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst

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NZ Church Leaders Ask for Judicial Review

Free To Be Church Reverend Logan Hagoort In early June, Free To Be Church, a group of Christian Ministers from around New Zealand, will be seeking a ruling from a Judge as to the legality of the COVID ‘Traffic Light’ system. Their focus will be on challenging whether these rules

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Greetings from the Freedom Front Lines

Greetings from the Freedom Front Lines

Mark Freeman You may have seen us on the side of a road in your town or city, holding signs promoting freedom and decrying vaccines and mandates. Or maybe you’ve been one of us. If not, you may have wondered what motivates us to be there, especially when the

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They Snooped but I Got Fired

They Snooped but I Got Fired

Information Opinion Some readers of  The BFD may recall the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show, a Youtube show I hosted for eighteen months. In mid-February, I decided to finish the show in order to focus on my employment as a Retail Coordinator at Officeworks in Melbourne (henceforth to be known

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Musk’s Threat to the “Current Thing”

Musk’s Threat to the “Current Thing”

Dan Sanchez fee.org Dan Sanchez is the Director of Content at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and the editor-in chief of FEE.org. Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion on Thursday, eliciting extreme reactions from some. Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at the City University

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Trudeau’s Plans to License Journalism

Trudeau’s Plans to License Journalism

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Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Yes, Billionaires Should Run the Internet

Matt Hampton fee.org Matt Hampton is the Digital Marketing Associate for the Foundation for Economic Education. Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder on Monday after purchasing 9.2 percent of its stock. Musk’s announcement that he would bring big changes prompted speculation that he would

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Op-Ed Attacks Elon Musk’s Commitment to Free Speech

Op-Ed Attacks Elon Musk’s Commitment to Free Speech

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practising attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. An op-ed in The Washington Post slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s vision for

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How to Make the UK’s Safety Bill an Opportunity for Freedom

How to Make the UK’s Safety Bill an Opportunity for Freedom

Those who would trade freedom for safety, as Benjamin Franklin famously said, deserve neither. But Franklin’s libertarian argument is directly at odds with the modern authoritarian cult of imposing safety through complete control. (In true Marxist fashion, NPR ludicrously tries to claim that Franklin’s is “a pro-taxation and

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Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Our Academics Do Not Feel Free to Speak Their Minds

Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Warning Long Read. 1634 words. “Cancel culture”, “callout culture” or “woke politics” – these trends are often accused of reducing political debate and diversity of thought in society. And it’s on university campuses where this is said to occur the most. Yet until now, it hasn’

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Freedom of Expression on Campus Bill Needed More than Ever

Freedom of Expression on Campus Bill Needed More than Ever

Dr James McDowall ACT MP New research showing the apprehension Kiwi academics have to speak freely at New Zealand universities highlights the urgent need for my Member’s Bill requiring tertiary education institutions to protect freedom of expression. Curia research commissioned by the Free Speech Union showed almost half of

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Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Dear David Fisher, Senior Writer, NZ Herald

Guy Hatchard Dear David We haven’t met, but a letter from yourself to the editor of the Daily Telegraph has been forwarded to me. In this letter, you say you are writing about “disinformation and misinformation relating to Covid-19”. You mention me as “someone who commonly misrepresents facts”. You

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What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

What Will Musk Do With Twitter?

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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