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Peter Murphy Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. cfact.org In the name of
John Porter “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Originally a line spoken by Marcellus in Act I of Hamlet. It has now become an idiom used when something is not right, or seriously amiss, especially when leading to suspicion of motive. For example: “If the authorities knew about
Mike Butler Mike Butler is the author of The Treaty: Basic Facts, and The First Colonist. Six thousand Tauranga citizens who petitioned in 2021 for a vote on a proposed Maori ward want some fair treatment over the ward that is currently being imposed on Tauranga. These citizens feel aggrieved
There should be no surprises in the latest 1News poll, released yesterday, that shows support for the coalition has slumped. No surprises here because the Media Party has been on the attack since the Government was formed, hostile to everything because their preferred parties were rinsed in the election. The
Toby Rogers Toby Rogers has a PhD in political economy from the University of Sydney in Australia and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focus is on regulatory capture and corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr Rogers does grassroots political organizing with
In an entry of his sadly discontinued Black Steam Train blog, Dallas Scott recounted the experience of appearing on SBS-TV alongside a panel of pale-faced ‘box ticker’ fauxborigines. I watched young, white identifiers roundly proclaim their connection to, and knowledge of, their ‘culture’, then turn around not five minutes later
James S Fay James S Fay is a California attorney, political scientist, and semi-retired college administrator. His articles have appeared in social science and law journals and the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Real Clear World. He served as a US Army intelligence officer in Germany. realclearwire.
Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org Uri Berliner’s expose of the ideological unanimity at NPR reminds the Republican half of America that they send their taxpayer dollars to Washington to have their viewpoints excluded or ridiculed as “far right” hate. Back there in the Stone Age of 2023, Elon Musk, he
The only reason leftist activists keep gluing themselves to roads and defacing great artworks and war memorials is because they almost never face consequences for their appalling, often criminal, behaviour. In contrast to the show trials of the J6 protesters, nearly all of the violent Antifa rioters who turned Washington
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Many criticisms are being made of the government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has
The left have always been racist: they consider anyone non-white to be inferior and requiring ‘educated’ white liberals and left wingers like themselves to run their lives for them. It has never crossed their minds that Maori, or Islanders, or black people might be intelligent, aspirational for themselves and their
dailytelegraph.co.nz VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON HAS DECIDED TO POSTPONE A SCHEDULED DEBATE ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CITING WORRIES THAT IT MIGHT DEVOLVE INTO A PLATFORM FOR ‘HATE SPEECH’. The decision comes after student magazine Salient criticised the ‘lack of diversity’ among the confirmed panelists, specifically targeting Jonathan Ayling
It is becoming increasingly apparent that we are witnessing the performance of a ‘chalk and cheese’ parliament. What is on show is probably the biggest chasm in ability between a government and an opposition in our lifetime. The reason for this is we have a government of people with real-world
