Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A few days ago, I posted a short article entitled “Why not AUKUS”. Unsurprisingly, it prompted a range of reactions. There were some who agreed with my analysis
Nir Eisikovits Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center UMass Boston The US government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on Apr 17, 2024. The House voted on each of the four
Well, it’s official, Chloe Swarbrick: you’re bellowing an antisemitic, genocidal hate slogan. No less an authority than the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly agreed. Before Chloe and her anti-Israel chums start blithering that it’s all just the wicked Republicans, the measure was co-sponsored by two Democrats.
Senator Marco Rubio Marco Rubio is a U.S. Senator from Florida. The views expressed are the author’s own. realclearwire.com “It’s better to be the United States’ enemy than its friend.” Foreign officials tell me this is their perception under the Biden Administration, which has a strange
Paul Sperry Paul Sperry is an investigative reporter for RealClearInvestigations. He is also a longtime media fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Sperry was previously the Washington bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily, and his work has appeared in the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
Don Brash Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 bassettbrashandhide.com A few weeks ago, Helen Clark and I wrote a joint op-ed for the New Zealand Herald entitled “We must not abandon our independent foreign policy”. Since that
Remember when suspecting that Covid was engineered in a lab and accidentally leaked meant that you were a conspiracy theory cultist? Mind you the same people calling you a “cultist” were doing stuff like this: As it happens, their beloved Dr Fauci is accused of being neck-deep in the alleged
Duggan Flanakin 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 brief history
Ran Porat Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed, originating from Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon – all
The world is at the most critical crossroads, with the weakest Western leadership, since 1938. At least Chamberlain and Daladier had the poor excuse of desperately doing anything, giving Hitler everything, in order to avoid war. Joe Biden and Antiono Guterres, and closer to home, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong,
Susan Crabtree Susan Crabtree is RealClearPolitics’ national political correspondent. realclearwire.com A simple social media post from a U.S. ambassador praising a Catholic Easter service would go largely unnoticed in the countries of many U.S. allies. But in China, where churches, synagogues, and mosques must be sanctioned and
John Klar libertynation.com The Biden administration’s assault on farmers now includes an openly racist and sexist dimension: allocating $25 billion in federal disaster relief funds to stricken farmers based solely on race and gender. The USDA has dispensed funds using this social justice criterion, employing skin color and
Dave Patterson libertynation.com Some behaviors are predictable, and experience confirms certain actors on the world’s stage will perform unsurprisingly. For example, Iranian authorities will lie, and many world leaders will believe them. You can take it to the bank. Remember last fall when Biden wanted to release six
Brian Matthew Jordan realclearwire.com One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger. The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine
If we’re to believe the mainstream media — well, more fool us. Still, if we did, then we’d believe that the 2024 presidential election is a disappointing low-point in American politics: two venal old men with no real policies. The boor versus the dotard. Most especially, we’d believe
