As the world’s oldest known joke shows, humour has both its constants and has also lost something in the translation over the millennia. The constant is that humans have apparently been telling fart jokes forever. The loss-in-translation is that the 4,000 year-old Sumerian knee-slapper
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Do New Zealand people need to understand mortality to be able to find some kind of base position to steady their minds, at this time of young people dropping dead everywhere? Reflections on mortality Is it not true that
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. The Trans Revolution is like the war in Ukraine. On some fronts the Ukrainian troops creep slowly forward; on others, they retreat. Similarly, in the UK, the trans juggernaut may have ground to a
Edward W. Fuller mises.org Edward Fuller, MBA, is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business. John Mearsheimer recently gave an important lecture on the Ukrainian war. He warns that “the United States is now effectively at war with Russia”. Mearsheimer argues, “The United States is principally responsible.” Alexander
John Ling wealthmorning.com John is the Chief Investment Officer at Wealth Morning. His responsibilities include trading, client service, and compliance. He is an experienced investor and portfolio manager, trading both on his own account and assisting with high net-worth clients. ‘History is written by the victors.’ We’ve
New Zealand First Media The recent diatribe by Minister of Maori Development Willie Jackson which slams the ‘one person, one vote’ outrage is alarming not only for its content but its ignorance of history, facts, and the essence of democracy. He claims that the recently passed Ngai Tahu Bill is
Hiroshi Yoshida fee.org Hiroshi Yoshida is an award-winning Certified Public Accountant and Licensed Tax Accountant with a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from Chiba University of Commerce. He is the President of The Institute of Public Sector Accounting and of The Free Economy Institute in Japan. (Editor’s
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org On 1 September, 1941, Chief of Reich Security Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most fanatical, mass-murdering Nazis, issued a now notorious decree ordering Jews above the age of six to wear an identifying badge in public. The Jewish Badge, a yellow Star of David with
Actor and playwright Oscar Kightley has announced he is running for Henderson-Massey in Auckland’s local elections. He also argues the Government hasn’t gone far enough to redress the dawn raids of the 1970s. “They were such extraordinary times that I think an apology requires extraordinary compensation.” A
Anyone who’s prone to babbling about “IFL Science!” and spouting idiotic memes like, “The overwhelming majority of scientists…” could really do with a rudimentary education in the history of science. Some really bad ideas have been promulgated as “settled science”, and some really appalling people have been prominent scientists.
The 1947 “Black Dahlia” murder could be said to be America’s “Ripper” case. The gruesome mutilation murder of a young woman has never been solved. The case exerted enormous public fascination, but on few more than a young James Ellroy, whose own mother was likewise murdered in an unsolved
Joe Bastardi cfact.org Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore – and Others, which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. Here is the headline from the Daily
Michael endoftheamericandream.com My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available on Amazon.com. In addition to my new book I have written five other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning
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.
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
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
