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Will JFK Records Remain Secret?

Will JFK Records Remain Secret?

Adam Dick ronpaulinstitute.org Fifty-nine years ago this week, President John F Kennedy was assassinated. These many years later, the United States government continues to hold in secret piles of information related to the assassination. After the popular theatrical run of director Oliver Stone’s movie JFK that dramatically

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The Winners are…

The Winners are…

We have come to the end of yet another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are three copies of Adam Plover’s new book  New Zealand; the Benefits of Colonisation. Today we announce which three lucky BFD members have each won a copy of this book. We

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Yesterday returned serviceman Neill Boak celebrated his 100th birthday. He is the first Kiwi to receive a 100th birthday card from the new head of state, King Charles III. After the war, he returned to his field of surveying: establishing his own company and working notable projects, including the Auckland

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Kate Cocks Was No Saint

Kate Cocks Was No Saint

Lainie Anderson University of South Australia Lainie Anderson is writing a murder mystery novel based on the policing career of Kate Cocks as part of a PhD in Communication at the University of South Australia. She’s been a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail since 2007. In 1915, an

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Equality Is Not Good

Equality Is Not Good

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

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We Should Be So Lucky!

We Should Be So Lucky!

A few years ago I took part in an online discussion with various political junkies, mostly psephologists from British universities including a couple of well known ‘election experts’ from Nuffield College, Oxford, and I gained a certain reputation when I pointed out where they were mistaken. Typically for left wingers

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The Origin Story of the Creepy Clown

Madeline Steiner University of South Carolina Madeline Steiner’s work combines the history of the entertainment industry with the history of Gilded Age business and capitalism. Her dissertation was a study of the traveling amusement industry at the turn of the 20th century including circuses, minstrel shows, and Wild West

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