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Ignoring the Babies, CNN Says Texas Abortion Ban Mainly ‘Affects Low-Income Women’
Mark Finkelstein newsbusters.org You might have expected President Biden’s speech of yesterday defending his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to be CNN’s lead story on this morning’s New Day. But it’s a mark of just how central to liberal dogma is the right to abortion that New
The Double Standards of COVID Dictators
Business owners in Queensland are ropeable that football players and their families are allowed to travel across borders when no one else is. I have a friend who has been trying for weeks to bring their partner to Tasmania. They’ve been stymied by red tape, every step of the
Muckraking Media Smear Mums Just Worried About Their Kids
No wonder Victorian premier Dan Andrews was so keen to sign up to Xi Xinping’s notorious BRI: he is clearly bent on reinventing the state as a cheap knock-off of the Chinese communist state. Complete with feral media bootlickers, ever-ready to denounce counter-revolutionaries. Mental health campaigner
Why Many in Sweden Have to Wait a Decade (or Longer) To Land an Apartment
Jon Miltimore fee.org Oscar Stark recently was warming up leftover vegetarian pasta in his flat, a red-brick 1960s tower outside Stockholm. Reheated veggie pasta isn’t exactly a gourmet meal, but it’s all the 20-year-old Swede said he can afford, because the majority of his
Labour’s Failure to Plan Means COVID Cases Isolating at Home
A lack of planning by the Government for a Delta outbreak has meant as of 1 pm yesterday 78 Covid-19 positive people were isolating at home, having not yet been moved into quarantine, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed
It’s ‘Official’ – Poto Has Got to Go
The suggestion by the Minister of Police that media should use the Official Information Act to find out if the officers who arrested the MIQ escapee were vaccinated against Covid-19 is astounding, says National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. Asked by NewstalkZB Christchurch host John MacDonald this morning whether
Eric Abetz: Yes, Afghanistan Was Worth It
In the popular (read: left-wing) media narrative, the war in Afghanistan sits somewhere between WWI and Vietnam. It was, we are told, a colossal waste of blood and treasure. Fought on a false premise and doomed to fail. But is that true? It certainly isn’t true of WWI;
Health System Unprepared for a Delta Outbreak
The Government must explain why the health system was so unprepared for a Delta outbreak and why no new ICU bed spaces were provisioned over the five months since Delta first appeared in our MIQ facilities, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “What’s worse is that the
South Island Should Drop Now to Alert Level 2
The Government needs to explain exactly why the South Island should not immediately drop to alert level 2, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “There hasn’t been a positive case of Covid in the South Island for almost a year. None have been reported from the latest Delta
Report Claims Muslims Likely Early Targets of Woke Hate Speech Law
Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union welcomes the report by Newsroom of internal government worries about lack of ‘authenticity’ and ‘inclusion’ in its consultation on their hate speech law changes. That is reassuring to the Union, who has claimed from the beginning that a rushed process where the Minister
Critical Healthcare Workers Must Be Granted Residency as a Priority
The Immigration Minister must urgently reopen the frozen Skilled Migrant Category visa EOI pool and prioritise processing of residence applications for critical healthcare workers to keep them in New Zealand as we battle the Covid-19 outbreak, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford. “National is also calling on the
In Afghanistan, Opium Is as Big a Winner as Islamic Extremism
Giada Ferrucci Western University Giada ferrucci is a Ph.D. Candidate in Media Studies at Western University. She holds a BA in Economic Development and International Cooperation from the University of Florence, Italy, where her research focused on the opium trade in Afghanistan and alternative economic development reforms, and an
Are Americans Really Ready for President Harris?
Hear me out: choosing Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate was the smartest move the Democrats made in the past ten years. Sure, Harris is about as appealing as anal cancer, but that’s the point. The Democrats knew who Biden is: they knew he’s a mentally-
Private Enterprise Comes to the Rescue of Stranded Americans
Leesa K. Donner libertynation.com Leesa K. Donner is Editor-in-Chief of LibertyNation.com. A widely published columnist, Leesa previously worked in the broadcast news industry as a television news anchor, reporter, and producer at NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC. She is the