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Eyal Shahar Dr Eyal Shahar is a professor emeritus of public health in epidemiology and biostatistics. His research focuses on epidemiology and methodology. In recent years, Dr Shahar has also made significant contributions to research methodology, especially in the domain of causal diagrams and biases. brownstone.org It was an
As I wrote for The BFD recently, for a supposed libertarian, David Seymour sure loved some naked authoritarianism when it came to lockdowns and vaccines. As for Christopher Luxon, he’s as wet as slow-boiled kale when it comes to green-left dogmas like climate change. So-called ‘conservatives’ in Australia aren’
James Hickman James Hickman (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and protect
John Klar libertynation.com The Biden administration’s assault on farmers now includes an openly racist and sexist dimension: allocating $25 billion in federal disaster relief funds to stricken farmers based solely on race and gender. The USDA has dispensed funds using this social justice criterion, employing skin color and
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Some behaviors are predictable, and experience confirms certain actors on the world’s stage will perform unsurprisingly. For example, Iranian authorities will lie, and many world leaders will believe them. You can take it to the bank. Remember last fall when Biden wanted to release six
I see the Australian Federal Police Association, a police union, is calling for the setting up of an Australian National Guard patterned on the National Guard of the United States, which was made up of the colonial militias consolidated together as the “National Guard” under the National Defense Act of
Brian Tamaki A massive cleanup is urgently needed in New Zealand. We need to clean up all the filth… all this over-sexualisation of our precious children and young people. Home by home, street by street, town by town, city by city… we are on assignment to clean up this nation.
I have some empathy for the journalists who have lost their jobs, but no more than for a tradie or a staffer in the back office of a government department. Having worked in the media for a lengthy period, I can understand the disappointment and no doubt frustration they are
A curious thing emerged during the 1980s that has continued through to the present day. In popular music, Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love for You”, started the trend of yodelling. You can hear them all doing it if you listen closely. In acting, Michael J Fox in Back
The NZ Herald had an editorial over the weekend that read like a desperate plea for Labour to come and assist them in opposing the Government. It really is quite strange but then again, after the Trust Survey revealed that no one trusts them anymore mainly because they’ve become
Brian Matthew Jordan realclearwire.com One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger. The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine
Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor in chief of Mercator. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com The Titanic sank after it collided with an unseen iceberg. Western societies with low birthrates are steaming straight towards an iceberg in broad daylight. But they refuse to change course. The problem
Recently something happened in the tech world that should have made world headlines. But it didn’t. On March 29, Microsoft software developer Andres Freund was trying to optimize the performance of his computer when he noticed that one program was using an unexpected amount of processing power. Freund dove
James Parker mercatornet.com James Parker is a former gay activist and abuse survivor who supports people and their loved ones around sexuality, gender and identity. British paediatrician Hilary Cass, chair of England’s Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people, submitted her final report and
Tom Baker Associate Professor in Human Geography University of Auckland The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see why the university’s governing body made
