It’s something of modern fairy-tale: the hardscrabble entrepreneur labouring away in their garage, until, Eureka! a flash of inspiration hits which transforms the world and lets them live happily ever after with a vast fortune. It’s no less a fairy tale for so often being true, from Steve
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
After WW2 an enterprising building firm called Levitt and Sons developed a system of mass producing houses and creating suburbs in double quick time. The first example of this was Levittown, New York, and the way they did it was to do basically the opposite of the current government and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recent publicity over Trevor Mallard’s term as Speaker had me reflect on his 13 predecessors since 1975. By far the most unpopular was Labour’s Gerry Wall, who was a pariah in the new liberal thinking Labour Party of 1984. When Basil Arthur
Some time back, BFD contributor Sir Bob Jones caused quite a ruckus with his column cheekily calling for a “Maori gratitude day” to replace Waitangi day. After all, as Jones pointed out, nearly all Maori alive today owe their very existence to at least some European ancestors. Not to mention
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com At the freedom march in Wellington, NZDSOS’s Dr Matt Shelton addressed the crowds about medical freedom. He reads Vera Sharav’s speech on the 75th anniversary of Nuremberg and speaks about the lead-up to the Holocaust. The genocide and forced
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion As we wrote on 20 August 2022, a group of influential human rights and medical ethics advocates assembled in Nuremberg last weekend to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the infamous war crimes trials and inception of the Nuremberg Code.
PA Pundits – International Jarrett Stepman papundits.wordpress.com Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. Arguing for keeping “presentism” out of
Louis T March mercatornet.com Louis T March has a background in government, business and philanthropy. A former talk show host, author and public speaker, he is a dedicated student of history and genealogy. Louis lives with his family in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Huge news from the
Anthony Willy, barrister and solicitor, has served as a judge on four courts: district, environment, tax, and valuation. He is a former lecturer in law at Canterbury University and presently an arbitrator, commercial mediator and Resource Management Act commissioner, and yesterday he shared his views on Three Waters – and particularly
H. G. Wells once said that anyone who pined for “the good old days” would change their mind as soon as they got a toothache. If they had read some of the “medical” treatments available in the Middle Ages, they might not have been so keen on the old days
Daniel Falk University College Cork Since I was a child I wanted to become a dinosaur scientist – a palaeontologist. In 2014 I did it! I currently don’t deal with dinosaurs, but with Eocene individuals and their skeletal taphonomy and soft-tissue preservation (“Geiseltal collection”, Germany). However, I still have a
In John Black’s novel Man Down, the protagonist reflects on a campaign to remove the statue of a colonial-era figure in a New Zealand town. Whatever his faults, all of them the common failings of his era, at least people like him built something. A century later, the people
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Seventy five years ago today in the German city of Nuremberg, 16 of 23 Nazi doctors and administrators were found guilty of participating in war crimes and crimes against humanity “in the form of harmful or fatal medical experiments and other
As I wrote recently for Insight, what does it even mean to be “indigenous”? The standard reference, Oxford, defines “indigenous” as “originating in and characterising a particular region or country”. The National Geographic Society (NGS) defines “indigenous” as “an individual from a group that has lived in a particular location
A few years back, Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown (a Muslim convert) delivered a lecture in which he defended Islamic slavery as “kinder and gentler” than slavery in America. Part of Brown’s defence rested on the fact that Muhammad was a slave trader: “Are you more morally mature than
