Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at 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.
With the US midterm elections just days away, the feverish paranoia about “misinformation” are rising fit to burst the mercury. But, depending which side of politics you favour, the more you’ll be convinced that it’s the dastardly other side who are doing it all. And you’d be
Remember: the very people finger-wagging you about “misinformation” and “fake news” are the same people who’ve been steadily lying to you for the last seven years. Of course, they’ve been at it for far longer than that, but the mask really came off in 2016 — and got thrown
Tim Graham newsbusters.org Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. We don’t have a Mainstream Media. We have
Jeff Charles libertynation.com Socio-political correspondent at LibertyNation.com. A self-confessed news and political junkie, Jeff’s writing has been featured in Small Business Trends, Business2Community and the Huffington Post. Born in Southern California and having experienced the 1992 LA Riots up close and personal, Jeff’s insights are informed
Laura Rosen Cohen brownstone.org Laura Rosen Cohen is a Toronto writer. Her work has been featured in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, National Post, the Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Report, the Canadian Jewish News and Newsweek among others. She is a special needs parent and also a
You would think it’s a no-brainer in politics to never insult the people you want to vote for you. I well remember a local federal political candidate who failed in his first bid to unseat the incumbent. On losing, he fronted the cameras in the tally room and berated
I know I keep repeating myself, especially for a savvy audience like BFDers, but still, the point has to be hammered home: Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you. Because as experience proves, time and again, they absolutely are. I’m not just talking about Snopes “fact-checking” the
Justin Hart brownstone.org Justin Hart is an executive consultant with over 25 years experience creating data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Presidential campaigns alike. Mr. Hart is the Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com which helps companies, public policy officials, and even parents gauge the impact
Information Opinion We are one week away from the US midterm elections which will see one third of the US Senate, all of the House of Representatives, numerous governorships and state legislatures up for election. As a US citizen, I sent off my ballot a couple of weeks back, having
When Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter became a firm prospect, the Biden administration threatened to step in and kill the deal. Why would they do that? Because they are terrified of what Musk, lately a convert to the Republican party, might find and make public. We know something
Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. They took all the
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 Not since the Cuban missile crisis exactly 60 years ago has the world been in such danger. And that’s not just my own view: early in October,
“Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man,” said Aristotle. “Give us your children now, and don’t expect them back,” say America’s public schools. Which may be why growing numbers of Americans are choosing not to hand their kids over to
Given the obvious state of Joe Biden’s permanent rinse-cycle brain, perhaps he thought he was at one of Hunter’s meth’n’hooker parties when he hosted a man in a dress at the White House. The only thing that probably puzzled him was that this one was too
Joseph Vazquez newsbusters.org Joseph is the MRC Associate Editor for Business & Free Speech America. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2018. Another assortment of groups funded with millions of dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros are adding
