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Why Vaccine Mandates That Fail to Respect the Right of Conscience Are Immoral

Why Vaccine Mandates That Fail to Respect the Right of Conscience Are Immoral

Tim Hsiao fee.org Tim Hsiao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Arkansas Grantham. As employers and governments have become more stringent with COVID vaccination requirements, many are no longer honoring conscientious or religious exemptions to vaccination. This is a mistake. Even if vaccination is

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A Spectacular Own-Goal

A Spectacular Own-Goal

Imagine playing against a team that was split, inferior, and that had no clear strategy. And you still lose. Imagine also that the team says that you cheat and don’t play fair. And to prove them right you go ahead and cheat and play unfairly. And you still lose.

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Parliament’s Freedom Gathering Is Being Battered: Please Help!
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Parliament’s Freedom Gathering Is Being Battered: Please Help!

Gary Moller garymoller.com Please help: Wellington is being battered by a fierce storm. The conditions at Parliament are absolutely appalling and people are suffering, some going down with hypothermia, but these brave people are not going anywhere. They are in this for the long haul. Earlier this morning, I

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The Tipping Point was Met
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The Tipping Point was Met

J M White If there is one thing we the people have finally learnt from the plague disaster scenario kept going by western governments for the past two years, it is how we have been tricked. We learned the hard way that the whole façade of what we accepted as

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How to Deescalate Protests in Ten Steps

Mrs P It has been slightly humorous over the last few days to hear statements from various politicians to the effect that “we don’t know what the protests are about” and “the messaging isn’t clear”. Being so confuddled by what really is quite a straightforward matter, they appear

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The Cracks in the Dam Are Showing

Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz The end of the Covid nightmare seems in sight. The sceptics are being proved right, and more and more people are waking up to the injustice of the government’s authoritarian response these last couple of years. The Convoy, and subsequent police brutality and politicians’

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This Government Is Scared Witless

This Government Is Scared Witless

Thursday’s events on the lawns of Parliament have spooked the government and the police. There were no arrests on Friday. There were no advances by the police and no violence amongst the protesters. The MSM were predicting, and undoubtedly hoping for, major confrontations but were left with nothing. The

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MPs are the Cowards of the Country
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MPs are the Cowards of the Country

It is becoming more and more obvious that those increasingly strange human beings in our Parliament, known to us as Members of Parliament, are now the Cowards of the Country. Who would have thought that those we elected to provide leadership could have failed so miserably to do just that?

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Why NZ Democracy Has Failed

Why NZ Democracy Has Failed

It has taken a determined effort by a group of dedicated investigative journalists several months to establish the cause of the failure of democracy in New Zealand. Now, this crack team can reveal the root cause of all the problems recently exposed, the failures to achieve meaningful progress and the

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Rhythm & Parliament

Rhythm & Parliament

Brett McDonald Volunteer Reporter The BFD I’ve been taking photos of the anti-mandate protests for a while now. I do this in my own time on a voluntary basis and submit them to The BFD — the only media outlet I could find at the time that would publish

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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Trudeau Walks Out

Trudeau Walks Out

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Politicians Break Faith on Religious Freedom

Politicians Break Faith on Religious Freedom

Playing up sectarian divisions has never gone well in Australian politics — especially not for Labor. This is probably why, since the days of the Labor split, Catholic voters abandoned the party in droves over its embrace of communism. The split condemned Labor to decades in the wilderness. Half a century

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