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Banishing Ghosts after the Past Three Years

Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org My wonderful wife handles all of the Halloween planning for our family. She arranges the costumes, the candy, puts up the decorations, and manages the inevitable costume parties. This year my wife chose

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They Are Forcing Reduced Energy Use

Jack Spencer Jack Spencer is a senior research fellow for energy and environmental policy at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com These mandated standards, which came into effect this year, are enforced through the Building Energy Performance Standards program, which requires that building

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Numbers of MAID Are Increasing

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com In 2022, 13,241 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – 4.1 per cent of all deaths. The advance of MAID has been astonishing. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in 2016, there have been 44,958

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The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

The Real Villain in the Shawshank Redemption

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In a 2016 interview, Stephen King was asked if he had “a personal favorite” film adaptation of one of his stories. The first movie out of the bestselling author’s

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No, C-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory

No, C-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory

David Brady, Jr David Brady is a Catholic libertarian and economics and finance undergraduate student at Florida Southern College. He is a co-host of the “Econphonics” podcast and a Mises Apprentice. mises.org In light of Nobel Prizes being given to two researchers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccinations, beltway

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I’m Taking a Break from Politics
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I’m Taking a Break from Politics

rightminds.nz The final election results are in and so is my decision to hang up my coat. I planned to stay and build up the New Conservatives into the next few elections, but after the total collapse of our vote down to 0.15 per cent that is no

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We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

We’re Witnessing the Fall of Wokism

Christian Toto newsbusters.org Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get

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Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

Should MMP and Maori Seats Go?

A controversial headline, perhaps, but designed to spark debate. I will attempt to justify it with some facts, both positive and negative; however, the negatives outweigh the positives by some margin. The 2023 election is of course a true result of an election run under the MMP system, but I

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Petition Govt to Reject WHO Pandemic Amendments

Petition Govt to Reject WHO Pandemic Amendments

dailytelegraph.co.nz THE PETITION HAS BEEN PROPOSED BY TAURANGA LAWYER KIRSTEN MURFITT. The WHO Pandemic Treaty is a series of amendments to international health regulations which will give World Health Organisation bosses the sole power to declare regional and global health emergencies, such as pandemics. Opponents say that once

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An Important Message From Cam

I never thought I’d have to write an article about this, but we are now in a position where we have to. The economy is in the pits, and now it is finally hurting us. Over the past six months, we have seen memberships decline to the point where

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Willie Jackson Rolls Out the Threats

Willie Jackson Rolls Out the Threats

What is it about Maori leaders that they can’t seem to respect democracy and need to issue threats of violence to get their own way? Willie Jackson is just the latest to do so, ignoring the wishes of the voting public and threatening riots and worse: If ACT’s

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Faces of the Day

Faces of the Day

An article written by Sheree Trotter (Te Arawa) in 2017 and reposted by the Israel Institute of NZ a few days ago has some good observations. Gaza is ruled by Hamas, a Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organisation that does not recognise Israel and whose charter calls for genocide. Hamas is the

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The Politics of Disdain

The Politics of Disdain

Emily Burns Emily Burns is a graduate of Sweet Briar College in Biochemistry and Music, and did studies toward a PhD in neuroscience at Rockefeller University. She is the founder of Learnivore and other ventures, and works with Rational Ground as a contributor. Aaron Kheriaty Aaron Kheriaty, Senior Brownstone Scholar

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Of Ghosts, Politics and Elite Fads

Of Ghosts, Politics and Elite Fads

As I previously wrote for The BFD, human foibles of class and prejudice persist even on the spiritual plane. It’s notable, for instance, that ‘past lives’ invariably show a bit of cachet: everyone’s an Egyptian priestess; no one’s a plumber from Grimsby. Similarly, ghosts are notably posh

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Chinese Nationals Are Crossing the US Border

Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com As Americans look on with increasing alarm at the shocking state of their broken southern border, the nation’s sea boundaries are being violated with rapidly escalating impunity. At the same time, communist China has dramatically upped its presence in the Western Hemisphere. It was inevitable

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