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Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Control freak politicians are now taking over the job parents used to be expected to do. First, Labour decided parents couldn’t be trusted to make sure kids got lunch. Now, it’s decided to take away fizzy drinks and is proposing to replace them
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish
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Fred Too We are still hearing how our farm animals produce this terrible gas called methane (mainly from belching), which is allegedly helping to heat up the atmosphere. Methane is supposedly much more potent than carbon dioxide at causing global warming, although it decays over several decades back into carbon
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Capitalist Information Opinion Sylvia Miles was a wonderful actress. Her acting career was not particularly prolific but the roles she had were always memorable, such as in Midnight Cowboy and Wall Street, and her characters always seemed to get hilarious one-liners (often what viewers remember about the movie). She
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It wasn’t that long ago that I wrote an article regarding the culture war in the entertainment industry. I would like to follow that up with another way to fight the culture war. That is in the business world. I’m sure that I’m not alone in thinking
A few months ago a member of the local sump won this book through a BFD draw. It was passed on to me to read and review. I would not normally purchase such a book nor get it from the local library, though it is available to borrow. It was
I will always acknowledge that I have received a submission but I do not have the time to tell writers if it has been selected or why it has not been selected. This is due to the volume of submissions received. However, if you become a regular guest writer and
