Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Six years ago, fate had me stumble across a YouTube video of Mischa Maisky playing the Sarabande from Bach’s first cello suite. I don’t know why, but I decided to rent
C J Hopkins C J Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. consentfactory.org So, the Germans are putting me on trial for my thoughtcrimes, and, apparently, I’ve already been found guilty and sentenced. Bear with me and I’ll try to explain. The Berlin District Court
James Fite Editor-at-Large. James is our wordsmith extraordinaire, a legislation hound and lover of all things self-reliant and free. An author of politics and fiction (often one and the same) he homesteads in the Arkansas wilderness. libertynation.com Donald J Trump is racking up the historic firsts. No other president
Rebekah Barnett Rebekah Barnett reports from Western Australia. She is a volunteer interviewer for Jab Injuries Australia and holds a BA in Communications from the University of Western Australia. Find her work on her Substack page, Dystopian Down Under. brownstone.org The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack
A “trans” child, it is said, is like a vegan cat: you know someone else is really making the decisions. Increasingly, with “trans men” (girls who pretend to be boys) especially, the decisions are being made by their peer groups and the internet. It’s notable that girls identifying as
Jonathan Turley ronpaulinstitute.org The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has handed down a major victory for free speech against the District of Columbia. In Frederick Douglass Foundation v. District of Columbia, Judge Neomi Rao reversed district court judge James E. Boasberg who dismissed the challenge
Michael Matulef Mike works in construction by day and is an independent student of Austrian Economics by night. Mike associates philosophically with crypto-anarchism and is interested in learning how Bitcoin and other open source technologies can create parallel systems based on consent rather than coercion. mises.org The Constitution “is
It goes without saying that paedophiles don’t tend to brag about their crimes. Even obvious groomers either deny what they’re up to, or try and hide behind euphemisms like “Minor Attracted Persons”. So it’s not exactly surprising that even those closest to paedophiles often remain unaware of
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) has recently filed for a High Court Judicial Review of the use of the “Guidance Statement” by the Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) to threaten doctors into obedience to the government dictates.
righttolife.org.uk Girls in Western Australia will be able to get an abortion without their parents knowing if a bill before the state’s parliament becomes law. New law to allow abortions without parental notification The current law in Western Australia requires an under-16 year old who is still
Isaac Schick Isaac Schick is a policy analyst at the American Consumer Institute, a nonprofit education and research organization. fee.org Recently the Supreme Court avoided deciding on where the limits of Section 230 were concerning content algorithms. Many have interpreted this as a positive sign that Section 230 will
Mårten Schultz Stockholm University theconversation.com To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting the
Kate C. Prickett Victoria University of Wellington theconversation.com By introducing four weeks of paid parental leave for partners if re-elected, the Labour Party would move New Zealand out of an undesirable and tiny club of OECD nations. Only the United States and Israel would then not offer something similar
Here’s an uncomfortable thought: every failed rape prosecution is, prima facie, a false accusation. Such a statement is guaranteed to enrage many, of course. Especially feminists, who love to bandy dodgy “statistics” that would have us believe that Australia is as dangerous for women as the Congo, where rape
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Introduction In 2020, increasingly concerned that the government’s response to covid 19 might be causing more harm than good, Dr Alison Goodwin looked for other doctors asking questions or offering alternatives to the fear-based narrative. There didn’t seem to
Ben Terangi Ben Terangi is a freelance journalist writing from Milwaukee. mercatornet.com Sex trafficking platform Pornhub has been dealt a major blow over the last year, with age verification laws sailing through multiple state legislatures, in some cases unanimously. As a result, the sleazy site has seen its traffic
