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
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
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
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
In 1941 the Australian Labor party came into office through a dirty deal by cross-bench MPs. Prime Minister John Curtin was completely unsuited to the job and thrown into an international crisis with little idea of what to do: he was saved from himself by officials and winning a ‘oncer’
Ryan Turnipseed Ryan Turnipseed is an undergraduate in economics and entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. There, he is the secretary and lecture chair for the Free Enterprise Society. Ryan is also the treasurer and a co-founder of the Old Glory Club mises.org Every mainstream school curriculum and state narrative
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Worldwide crude oil consumption is currently estimated at roughly 96.5 million barrels per day. According to OPEC, global demand is expected
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
Alan Lash Alan Lash is a software developer from Northern California, with a masters degree physics and a PhD in mathematics. brownstone.org Renewed calls for mask mandates are on the rise, as reports of scary Covid variants are making their way through the news. My perception is that most
The Holy Grail: it’s, well, the Holy Grail. The cup supposedly used by Christ at the Last Supper has long been the archetype of the quest-object in Western literature and religion. Much of the Arthurian mythos revolves around the knights’ search for the sacred object. More recently, it’s
Yaakov Kirschen Another Brooklyn boy. Born March 8, 1938. Graduated from Queens College 1961. Wrote and drew funny cards for Norcross. After dismissal for loudness and jocular attitude became a freelance gag cartoonist for the former Mad Mag guys who were then doing Cracked. Moved on to doing cartoons for
Harry Palmer When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time, they will know nothing else but this
The social media platform X is awash with daily posts claiming Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in its war on Hamas, despite daily assurances from the IDF that Israel is doing its best to avoid killing and injuring civilians whilst fulfilling its promise to Israeli citizens to annihilate Hamas to
Science, no matter what the media and activists might screech at you, is never settled. In fact, it’s the essential nature of science that it must be subject to change. Often dramatic. Consider the paradigm shift of quantum physics in the early 20th century: suddenly a deterministic universe became
