Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long read: 2092 words
Watching the left and liberal right people absolutely unhinge themselves over the recent US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade and send any future decisions over abortion back where debate correctly belongs, the state legislatures, has been an exercise in side-splitting hilarity. The very same people now wringing
If you study journalism, one of the things you are drilled in in your 101 subjects is sub judice contempt. This is the pretty basic idea that, when a suspect is charged and a case is going through the court process, journalists have to be very careful in what they
Information Opinion There is a famous scene in the Godfather movie where Vito Corleone and Tom Hagen are returning home from the meeting of the ‘Commission’ and Corleone says, “I didn’t realise until tonight it was Barzini all along” (who was behind the assassination attempt and desire to get
Lipton Matthews mises.org Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org and Imaginative Conservative. Visit his YouTube channel, with numerous interviews with a variety of scholars, here. Many are still repulsed by the monstrous actions of Salvador
hatchardreport.com This article was originally published on the thelookingglass.co.nz and is republished here with permission. The ’Hood: ‘Kiwi kids are getting jabbed with a product different to the formulation that was approved by Medsafe’ The Looking Glass speaks to co-director of The ’Hood, Sereca Friend, about why
Information Opinion Dieuwe de Boer rightminds.nz You can follow Dieuwe de Boer on Telegram or Twitter. I saw a rather funny tweet from former PM Helen Clark recently: Preposterous for #NZ judge to reference death penalty in sentencing person on drug-related charges. The #deathpenalty was abolished in NZ in
Dear Editor Who would you prefer as your doctor? An unvaxxed doctor or a drunken wife beater? Assault your wife and threaten to kill her in a prolonged attack, hands around her neck, threaten to shoot police, have three previous drink driving convictions – but never mind, you can still practise
righttolife.org.uk A Canadian woman who has a disability, who had her request for assisted suicide approved after she was unable to afford appropriate housing, has put her request for assisted suicide on hold after receiving thousands of dollars in donations for better housing. The 31-year-old woman, known as
As a slew of recent cases have shown, the pendulum in rape and abuse accusations has swung so far out of kilter that a mere accusation is more than enough to ruin a man’s career and public reputation, often indelibly. This is not to say that rape or abuse
righttolife.org.uk A pro-abortion group has issued a call to action instructing its followers to carry “anger out into the world” by “expressing it physically” on the night that the Supreme Court issues its opinion on the abortion law in the US. Last month, the Supreme Court’s decision
Nicole McKee ACT’s Justice spokesperson The Prime Minister has today confirmed the Government’s divisive and dangerous hate speech laws are still on their agenda. Hate speech laws are divisive and dangerous, turning debate into a popularity contest where the majority can silence unpopular views using the power of
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Warning Long read: 1976 words The New Zealand First donations scandal trial began in the High Court this week. And it’s already showing why
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Warning Long read: 1880 words Fifty years ago, United States Supreme Court judges invented a right to abortion for all America after feminists (and not a few men) insisted that, for women to stand as equal citizens
On opposite sides of the world, two separate court cases have potentially massive consequences for social media. In one case, Australian journalist Avi Yemini has won a court injunction against an anonymous Twitter account that has repeatedly attacked and – he says – defamed him on the platform. Yemini intends to sue
As I’ve said often enough, I read the likes of the Guardian so that you don’t have to. Ditto, Jacobin. But there’s plenty of reason to listen to and read people who are on almost the complete opposite political pole to your own. As Mill said, if
