rt.com Lawmakers in Arkansas voted on Tuesday to override a veto from Gov. Asa Hutchinson on banning surgery and treatment for transgender minors. The Republican-controlled House and Senate in the state approved the measure despite objections from the governor and activists. The measure bans doctors from providing surgery,
The stupidity and duplicity over voter ID laws in the US just keeps getting more hypocritical and idiotic. What would you call people who think that black people are too dumb to find their local DMV or use the internet, yet screech that others are racist? And what would you
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Regulatory Standards Bill, drawn from the members’ bill ballot today, is a long overdue addition to New Zealand’s constitutional framework,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The first attempt to pass a similar bill was the introduction of the Regulatory Responsibility Bill
“Cognitive dissonance” is the state of holding contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. Many of the hot-button issues in the Culture Wars are characterised by profound cognitive dissonance. For instance, groups preach about “tolerance” and “inclusion”, yet behave like bigots who viciously exclude anyone who disagrees with them. Our society
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about the atrocities
There are calls for Sir Ron Brierley to be stripped of his knighthood after he pleaded guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material at a Sydney court hearing. When he was arrested it was reported that detectives seized his carry-on bags, laptop and electronic-storage units and allegedly
Christian Porter’s defamation proceedings against the ABC have the potential to give the taxpayer-funded broadcaster the sort of clip over the ear it’s long deserved. ABC journalists have a deplorable habit of launching poisonous vilification campaigns against certain public figures – almost always conspicuously conservative. The biggest hurdle
Tracy Livingston outdoorsparty.co.nz 31 March 2021 URGENT- OPEN LETTER Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Ministers of COVID-19 cc Attorney-General David Parker Director-General of Health Solicitor-General Una Jagose Chris James – Group Manager Medsafe Health and Disability Commissioner Dear Prime Minister, Attorney-General, Director-General of Health
Once upon a time, all it took was a white woman in the US crying “rape” at a black man and it was time fer a good ol’ lynchin’. Nowadays, all it takes is a black criminal to whine, “I can’t breathe”, and the lynching begins. Of course, the
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First The Labour Government has confirmed that it is going to prioritise a law change which will deem birth certificates meaningless and which will continue its pushing of confusing gender ideology. The bill provides for each parent who is notifying the birth of a child
Free Press ACT Party Hard to Find Material If you would like to read Roger Partridge’s latest excellent column, it is here on Chris Trotter’s blog. Normally Roger’s columns appear in the Herald. This one, a thoughtful critique of the Government’s proposed New Zealand History curriculum,
As every conservative knows, Twitter’s rules aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Like most social media, Twitter’s “Rules and policies” are a strictly one-way affair. Only conservatives are ever held to “standards”; the left, not to mention blatant degenerates, are free to do as
The results from the government’s disastrous gun law changes are in. NEW ZEALAND- Gun-grabbing, anti-Second Amendment activists have tried to hold up a gun confiscation scheme in New Zealand as a model for the United States to follow, claiming that the government ban in that country resulted
Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik’s parents survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Lebensunwertes Leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification of killing, this idea led to
A bill that will ban the importing, supply and acquisition of synthetic urine to pass a workplace drug test is to have its first reading in Parliament, MP for Waimakariri Matt Doocey says. “Drug testing in the workplace is used to keep people safe and prevent accidents and deaths. At
