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Jacinta Price’s Maiden Speech as Senator for NT

jacintaprice.com Australia’s new Aboriginal MP was hailed for delivering one of the greatest maiden speeches in the country’s history. She said she’d had enough of being symbolically recognised because of her race and that the pointless and widespread virtue signalling of identity politics had to stop.

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Evil People Are Not Easy to Spot

Evil People Are Not Easy to Spot

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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Science Is Much More Than Just Stargazing

Science Is Much More Than Just Stargazing

In his The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan emphasises that science is not an institution or a mere collection of facts. Science is a way of thinking. Central to that way of thinking is scepticism and critical thinking, as opposed to superstition and dogma. Sagan would be turning in his grave

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There Was Nothing Noble About Savagery

There Was Nothing Noble About Savagery

Ever since Rousseau blithered his pious nonsense, a great many Western thinkers have nursed the most extraordinary delusions about tribal societies. The myth of the “noble savage” is almost universal amongst certain segments of society. Few more than amongst the descendants of the tribal societies colonised from the 15th to

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How Some of the Greatest Movies Were Panned

The often stark divide between audiences and critics has become a meme of its own in the era of review aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Hollywoke has only made things worse for itself, churning out a wave of intersectional sludge that panders to the sort of coastal elite

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Divide and Conquer Is Not Ardern’s Winning Strategy

Divide and Conquer Is Not Ardern’s Winning Strategy

Jacinda Ardern has successfully implemented two divide and conquer strategies on a population largely oblivious to her machinations. Ardern’s joyful divide between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated was accompanied by a stealthy division of New Zealanders by race when He Puapua eventually became public knowledge. Ardern trails in the

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I Guess the Moa Wiped Themselves Out?

I Guess the Moa Wiped Themselves Out?

British Conservative politician Kemi Badenoch certainly set the grievance-mongering left a-flutter when she had the temerity to dismiss one of their biggest bugaboos: colonialism. Badenoch, an ethnic Nigerian raised in that country until her teens, rejected the demonisation of colonialism because, “[I] know what we were doing before colonialism got

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The Amazing Paul Moon

The Amazing Paul Moon

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Academics are sometimes justifiably accused of indolence, not a charge which could ever be laid at Auckland history Professor, Paul Moon’s door. Paul must be the most prolific book-writing academic, not merely in New Zealand but anywhere in the world and possibly, in all

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The Three Winners of a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’ Are…

The Three Winners of a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’ Are…

Today we used an online random number generator to select three winners from our membership base. In addition to this article, we will also contact the winners via e-mail. The Basic or Bronze membership winner is  concernedkiwi The Silver membership winner is StaxM The Gold or Platinum winner is womble

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

We are running another yet fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of “Hoani’s Last Stand The Real Story of Rangiaowhia” by Piers Seed Summary: Using all the available accounts written by eye-witnesses, the author has written the most detailed account of the skirmish at Rangiaowhia

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Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

Your Chance to Win a Copy of ‘Hoani’s Last Stand’

We are running another yet fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of “Hoani’s Last Stand The Real Story of Rangiaowhia” by Piers Seed Summary: Using all the available accounts written by eye-witnesses, the author has written the most detailed account of the skirmish at Rangiaowhia

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Particle 101: The Red Queen Hypothesis

Owen Cumming particle.scitech.org.au Owen is a science communicator with a background in ecology and evolutionary biology. Owen enjoys surfing, hiking and convincing himself that his terrible woodworking has a “rustic” look. He firmly believes that quokkas’ smiles imply malicious intent. Imagine running all day, every day, just

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Has the “Economic Miracle” Run Dry?

Like me, most BFD readers would be old enough to remember when Russia was feted as the emerging economic superpower. Through the late ’70s and early ’80s, the communist giant was hailed as the economic Next Big Thing that would put those upstart capitalist Yanks in their place, once and

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Left’s Climate Projections Yield Worst-Case Consequences

Larry Bell PA Pundits – International Larry Bell contributes posts at the CFACT site. He heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind

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