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They’re Burning Books Again

They’re Burning Books Again

Radical, racially-obsessive socialists are burning books again. This is as certain to end well as it did when last they “commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past”. As it was in the 1930s, the “cleansing by fire” is being spearheaded by educational institutions. Plus ça change…

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Left Suddenly Alarmed at Police Cyber-Tracking of Citizens

Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com 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. A vexing thing about slippery slopes: The boulders tumbling

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Academic Intolerance: Professor’s Full Resignation Letter

Academic Intolerance: Professor’s Full Resignation Letter

CFACT Ed cfact.org CFACT — We’re freedom people. Dear Provost Susan Jeffords, I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics

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‘The US Government Is Censoring Private Conversations,’ Says the ‘Conversion Therapist’ Fighting a Legal Battle Not to Be Silenced

‘The US Government Is Censoring Private Conversations,’ Says the ‘Conversion Therapist’ Fighting a Legal Battle Not to Be Silenced

Chris Sweeney rt.com Chris Sweeney is an author and columnist who has written for newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, The Sun and Daily Record, along with several international-selling magazines. Brian Tingley is taking on the state of Washington for the right to continue counselling young people

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NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

NZ Herald Publishers Give in to Twitter Mob

You’ll remember the work we’ve done to defend the rights of the feminist group Speak Up For Women (SUFW), which was de-platformed from speaking at council-owned venues about proposed amendments to the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995. Now NZME (publishers of the NZ

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Faces of the Day

Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is calling for the couple – one reportedly a child of a Government official – who breached lockdown not to have name suppression says Free Speech Union spokesperson, and lawyer, Stephen Franks. “Name suppression will be the worst move for the Auckland couple charged with

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It’s Ok When They Do It

It’s Ok When They Do It

During my brief tenure at the festering online sinkhole that is Twitter, I quickly learned the one, unbreakable rule: the left are untouchable. I was permanently banned from the platform after just a few months, for suggesting that a troll do something that he would surely have found quite pleasurable.

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You Are Stronger Than You Think

You Are Stronger Than You Think

Here’s a little thought experiment for you: imagine that you had gone to sleep at some point in the past few decades, and then woken up in 2021. What on earth would you make of the world? For argument’s sake, I’ll choose my starting-point as 1987:

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Who Do the Disinformation Police Have in Their Sights?

Who Do the Disinformation Police Have in Their Sights?

Eliora The BFD has published three articles recently after spotting a job advertisement that Jacinda Ardern needed to be filled “at pace“. 1. “The Ministry of Truth Is Hiring” 2. “Government’s Kafkaesque Behaviour Epitomised with New Job in the PMO” 3. “Jacinda Ardern Is Employing 1984-Style ‘Disinformation Officers”

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Video Game Developer Tripwire’s CEO Forced to Step down for Tweeting in Support of Anti-abortion Law in Texas

rt.com US video game firm Tripwire Interactive has announced the immediate departure of its chief executive and apologized profusely that its former leader spoke out in favor of the new Texas abortion law. Chief executive John Gibson has “stepped down,” effective immediately, Tripwire said on Monday. The reason? “His

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Sheriff Ardern Has Lost the Plot

Sheriff Ardern Has Lost the Plot

Information Satire Sheriff Ardern checked the Karangahake Saloon to make sure ‘Cowgirl Collins’ wasn’t around and said to the bar-person Trotsky, “I’ll have RED-EYE (whisky) Comrade.” She confided to Trotsky. “First I lose Middle Earth, then it’s Middle New Zealand, now I’ve Lost the

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On Censorship and Heresy

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

Free Speech Union Remember how we crowdfunded successful Court proceedings so that Speak Up for Women could hold a meeting in a library about proposed law changes before Parliament? It turns out the exercise cost the Palmerston North City Council more than $30,000 to defend its outrageous deplatforming. Also

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Forgotten Freedoms Fade Fast

Forgotten Freedoms Fade Fast

Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com 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

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