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Simon O’Connor Husband, step-father, and longtime student of philosophy and history. Also happen to be a former politician, including chairing New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Committee. onpointnz.substack.com I find many protest actions ridiculous and counter-productive. Throwing white paint over rainbow crossings is just another
Stuff had an article yesterday asking how much fat can be trimmed off public sector jobs. I would suggest that the answer is plenty, plus some more. Stuff, however, thinks such thoughts are too simplistic. It is too simplistic to assume that recent large increases in public sector staff numbers
Karina Lipsman realclearwire.com The Republican contest on Super Tuesday, anticlimactic as it was, was a pivotal day for American foreign policy. Yes, domestic issues were the major concern of primary voters, but the two candidates presented competing visions of America’s future role on the global stage. Nikki Haley,
Rt Hon Winston Peters Minister of Foreign Affairs Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced $6 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by conflict in Gaza and Sudan during his ongoing visit to Egypt. “There are huge and urgent humanitarian needs in both Gaza and Sudan, and it is important
Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Former National Government Finance Minister Steven Joyce is being paid $4000 a day to chair the new Government’s “expert advisory panel” on infrastructure. That’s over twice what
Adam Andrzejewski realclearwire.com Topline: A California school district used $2 million of taxpayer funds to train high schoolers to fight for racial and social justice, according to records obtained by The Free Press. Key facts: Long Beach Unified School District hired the group Californians for Justice in 2019 to
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. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Tamás Klein Tamás Klein is a Hungarian paleolibertarian and an economics student at Grove City College. He is the president of the Mises Society at Grove City College and an apprentice for the Mises Institute. mises.org In recent years, my homeland, Hungary, a small country in central-eastern Europe, has
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Family First Over Easter weekend, the state broadcaster 1News did a 2-part series on calls to expand the criteria for our recent euthanasia laws. While allowing for contrary views in the reports, the general messaging was not about possible abuse of the law, concerns about coercion, depression affecting the decisions
Bruce Springsteen, born into a working-class family, wrote lyrics that resonated powerfully with two types of people – those living hand to mouth feeding their families on struggle street and the politicians intent on getting their votes. A powerful social conscience is evident throughout Springsteen’s music career but his early
Some people nicknamed it the American Stonehenge because it looked a little like the Neolithic Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The US Georgia Guidestones were four 19-foot-tall granite panels carved out of local stone in northeast Georgia and had been erected on 22 March 1980. The panels featured inscriptions in multiple
Chloe Swarbrick seems to be showing us she is not one of those cute cuddly Greens who can always find something good to say about everyone. Nope, she’s a whinging, nasty serial complainer, who thinks if she shrieks, scolds and stamps her foot then people will start listening to
It’s an old tradition for newspapers to run April Fool’s Day stories, and on first reading, Nick Cater’s Australian column on renewables subsidies might surely qualify. A quick check of readily available data, though, shows that this is no joke: the Australian government has spent billions of
Once again, a so-called “fact checker” has been caught lying through its teeth. It should surprise absolutely no-one that it was Australia’s ABC. These guys have woeful form, so much so that even their own colleagues have felt compelled to call them out. Now, they’ve peddled a whopper
James C Roberts James C Roberts served in the Reagan Administration from 1981–1984 and is the founder and executive chairman of Radio America, a national conservative radio network with more than 630 affiliates. Editor’s Note: In honour of National Vietnam War Veterans Day, we present this article by
