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Freedom, Moral Norms and the State

Freedom, Moral Norms and the State

Jonathan Cole Jonathan Cole is an academic working in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is also host of The Political Animals, a podcast that explores the political ideas of the Right through intellectual biography. Are moral norms compatible with individual freedoms? The answer should be an

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How Dementia in the President Poses a Threat to Us All

How Dementia in the President Poses a Threat to Us All

Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. Introduction Having more than 50 years of fulltime experience

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It Is the Intersectionality Playoffs, 2024

It Is the Intersectionality Playoffs, 2024

Professor Rex Ahdar University of Otago Forget the NBA or NHL Finals. Who cares about UEFA Euro 2024 and the Super Rugby Pacific semi-finals? We have the Intersectionality Playoffs 2024. Despite a poor regular season, the Free Palestine coalition have made it through to their first semi-finals in many years

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NZ Politics Daily: 2 July 2024

NZ Politics Daily: 2 July 2024

Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Dan Brunskill (Interest): An unlikely coalition of New Zealand voters are backing Housing Minister Chris Bishop’s mission to bring down house prices Susan Edmunds (RNZ): House prices need to fall 'a further 16%' to become affordable 1News: Tumultuous time for

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Green Light from Voters to Replace B757s
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Green Light from Voters to Replace B757s

Christopher Luxon’s dreams came true after Labour’s own pollsters have found a majority of voters would green-light the purchase of replacements for the aging and decrepit B757s that have embarrassed Prime Ministers from Clark to Key, to Ardern and now Luxon. A majority of New Zealanders want the

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Harsh Truths

Harsh Truths

THERE ARE LESSONS to be learned from the Biden-Trump debate/debacle. Important lessons, which New Zealanders would be most unwise to ignore. The first and most important of these is the need to face some harsh truths.

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It Is Darkest Before Dawn

It Is Darkest Before Dawn

Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. It’s been a painful four years watching the

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Compare and Contrast the Media

Compare and contrast these two news articles. Both are about Jerry Seinfeld being heckled by pro-Palestine protestors. The first, from Newshub, takes the point of view of some random woman named Chloe Jamieson whose only qualification is that she was at the show. From this journalism expert we learn that

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NZ Politics Daily: 1 July 2024

NZ Politics Daily: 1 July 2024

Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT Luke Malpass (Post): KiwiRail, iRex and how not to get a minister to agree with you (paywalled) Danyl McLauchlan (Listener): NZ spends so much on infrastructure, yet gets so little (paywalled) Georgina Campbell (Herald): Why cancellation of Cook Strait mega ferry contract

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Gaslit Is the Perfect Description

Gaslit Is the Perfect Description

Joe Biden’s election debate performance was woeful; only the most sycophantic Democrats, media and Joe’s wife would say otherwise. But for the past four years those same people have told you all that Joe Biden is just fine, and in just 90 minutes that was totally destroyed by

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BFD July 2024 Political Poll
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BFD July 2024 Political Poll

Take our Monthly Political Poll and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. If you enjoyed this poll please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would

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A Summation of This Week
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A Summation of This Week

Brian Tamaki The Drag Debacle that happened this week gave glaring evidence to the NZ Public how deep the Trans/Drag/Gay agenda is in our Politicians, Parties and Parliament. National’s Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ “I can’t help myself” reaction to my comment on X revealed (not only

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The Greening of Auckland’s Poorer ’Burbs

The Greening of Auckland’s Poorer ’Burbs

The less affluent Auckland suburb of Otahuhu and others in South Auckland have been targeted by the Auckland City Council’s tree planting programme to increase the tree canopy and green residential areas, whether residents like it or not. “In 2019, Auckland Council voted unanimously to declare a Climate Emergency,

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Good Point You Raise There, Matthew

Good Point You Raise There, Matthew

Last week Chris Bishop said out loud what no politician ever wants to be heard, by anyone, but especially home owners. He said he wanted house prices to drop significantly. Matthew Hooton writes about that in his weekly column at the NZ Herald: Bishop is obsessed about massively increasing the

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