Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history of
As millions of social media users suddenly pretend to care so very deeply about a place they couldn’t find on a map, let alone have the first clue about its history or politics, it’s somewhat amusing to see mainstream media pundits also suddenly pretend to venerate manly virtues
Jonathan Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Ida Gazzola mercatornet.com Ida Gazzola is the mother of 6 girls and one boy and lives in British Columbia, Canada. Before embarking on the adventure of parenting, she studied and worked in the financial industry. Team Baby: Creating a Happy and Rested Family, which she co-authored with Julia Dee,
Judith Keller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Judith is currently an international research scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is also a member of the graduate program “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History, and Politics” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and the Geographies
Sophia Martinson mercatornet.com Sophia Martinson is a wife and mom with a passion for reading, writing, and home arts. She is a freelance culture writer for various publications, and her blog, Homemaker Hopeful, explores the skills of taking care of home and family. In Loretta Lynn’s 1971 country
Leo Babauta zenhabits.net So many of us feel a scarcity of time: we feel rushed, like there’s not enough time to do everything, always behind, never feeling like we’re doing enough. This problem is called “time scarcity,” and it’s one of the most common stresses in
thenaturalbeauty.blog Have you given up on trying to grow a beard because yours is patchy, sparse, dry, itchy, or just not healthy looking? Many men don’t know that to cultivate a full, shiny beard they need to nourish the skin underneath it and the hair itself. Much as
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. February was the last time MercatorNet visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia. They had embarked upon a project of acquiring 105 children of their own with
Nobody Interesting As someone who has clocked up over 300,000 km in diesel 4×4 utes, it pains me to note that I now drive an electric vehicle. There was only limited choice in this transition, as the EV-as-company-policy came with the new job. A ute was simply not
Another instalment for the ‘How dumb are people?’ file. Mrs PFC and Daughter PFC are ‘Horsey Girls’. They are in a club where they get together and do horsey stuff every now and again. On Sunday they were having a ‘Have a go day’ where you and your kids come
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under
And here we go again. Lockdowns are again being threatened by the Deputy Prime Minister. One case of Omicron crosses their leaky border and all bets were off for any thoughts of so-called freedom. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in an interview recorded on Friday and aired on Saturday morning,
Eating healthily, laughing a lot and enjoying a glass of wine is the recipe for living a long and happy life, according to Dora Smith. Stuff Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
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