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
bobmccoskrie.com Former President Donald Trump’s position on abortion has previously been unclear looking toward the 2024 presidential election, despite the fact that the former president appointed three Supreme Court justices who ultimately made it possible to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022 by a majority vote. He
Black American scholar Wilfred Reilly repeatedly points out the yawning gap between the “narrative” — what Americans believe about America — and the reality. Most of the divide is due entirely to wildly inaccurate media representation. For instance, surveys show that Americans believe that about 25% of Americans are homosexual. The real
Kenneth Weinstein Kenneth R. Weinstein is Japan Chair at Hudson Institute. realclearwire.com When Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida heads to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Biden, he comes as the leader of a nation that has quietly become America’s most important ally. But Japan
Nicholas Fondacaro Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. newsbusters.org One would
Carlo J.V. Caro Carlo J.V. Caro is a political and military analyst. He has a graduate degree from Columbia University. realclearwire.com By prioritizing crisis management in response to escalating tensions, President Biden and his national security team risk inadvertently paving the way for a war between Iran
