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Only Bureaucrats Can Save Europe

Only Bureaucrats Can Save Europe

Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A

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Why Did a Tas Mayor Suddenly Quit?

Why Did a Tas Mayor Suddenly Quit?

The 1996 documentary Rats in the Ranks showed that local government politics can be as vicious and brutal as anything played out in Washington, Canberra or Wellington. Here in Tasmania, we’re seeing the current culture war blitz de jeur being played out every bit as hard as anywhere else.

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De Santis Wins Again, Bigly

De Santis Wins Again, Bigly

Can Ron DeSantis stop winning? I hope not. Sure, DeSantis is running a distant second to Donald Trump in polling for the forthcoming Republican presidential primaries. But he’s racking up the big wins that are making the big differences, as Florida governor. From pulling the pin early on Covid

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The WHO Wants to Control Your Child’s Sex Education

Malcolm Roberts mercatornet.com Malcolm Roberts is a One Nation Senator for Queensland. The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a “framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists” titled, “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”. Its purpose is to standardise (in other words override) the diverse teaching practices

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Just like That, Ivermectin Is Safe Again

Just like That, Ivermectin Is Safe Again

Few things showed just how ridiculously hyper-politicised the entire Covid pandemic really was than the Ivermectin saga. Both “sides” of the debate were at fault: to some extent, the rabidly pro-Ivermectin lobby are just as hyper-partisan as the antis. But the anti-Ivermectin apparatchiks — which includes not

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There Is No Free Religion in China

There Is No Free Religion in China

Antonio Graceffo mercatornet.com Dr. Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, is a China economist, the author of Beyond the Belt and Road: China’s Global Expansion and The Wrestler’s Dissertation. He is based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2023 Annual Report documented

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Extent of School Drag Grooming Made Clear

Extent of School Drag Grooming Made Clear

Whoever heard of drag queens in school libraries five years ago? Suddenly, they’re everywhere. There’s a reason for that. In 2019, Queer Theory academic and drag queen Harris Kornstein published a paper advocating “a drag pedagogy”. Kornstein explicitly stated that the purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour, which

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The PM Refused to Listen or Act
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The PM Refused to Listen or Act

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Stuart Nash was the only Labour minister listening to the people of Hawke’s Bay about crime. But sadly he was hapless and incapable of convincing Chris Hipkins, who repeatedly denied there was a problem. As usual, Nash broke the rules, trying to jawbone the

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Wellbeing Is So Last Year

Grant Duncan Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University If the recent flood of sleep-inducing pre-budget speeches and commentary is any indication, New Zealand voters can expect largely unimaginative leadership that fails to prepare the country for an uncertain future, regardless of who wins October’

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Sensors and Intuitives and the Voter Base

Part of our voting decision-making process is formed by discussions and thoughts about the character traits and the personality our politicians should or shouldn’t demonstrate. A voter’s decision is likely to be based on metrics such as a long-term philosophical endorsement of a party, the desire

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New Zealand Relies on Foreign Doctors to Plug the Gaps

Ross Lawrenson Professor of Population Health University of Waikato The New Zealand health system is currently in the throes of its biggest reorganisation in more than twenty years. The aim is to provide more efficiency and equity. But while it is acknowledged New Zealand has under-invested in health infrastructure,

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Stuart Nash’s Texts Are the Gift That Keeps On Giving
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Stuart Nash’s Texts Are the Gift That Keeps On Giving

Stuart Nash and his texts really are a gift that keeps on giving. From sharing cabinet decisions to texting his Police Commissioner he really is loose with his communications. That includes lying to the Ombudsman about the messages between him and me. He said they didn’t exist until I

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Nobody Someone – ‘Politically Homeless’ Song Release

Nobody Someone – ‘Politically Homeless’ Song Release

Nobody Someone “We’ve got five parties of death currently sitting in The Beehive” The hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who are currently disillusioned, need to vote strategically in the 2023 election. New Zealand’s politically homeless are the only chance to save our country from wokeism, an unrepairable racial

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Christians Targeted as a Hate Group

Michael endoftheamericandream.com Christianity is rapidly becoming synonymous with “hate”, and that puts us in very dangerous territory.  Because once a certain class of people becomes classified as a “hate group”, they become targets.  Unfortunately, Christians are already being systematically targeted right now.  Matt Taibbi and his colleagues just put

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