Australia, the US and Britain have announced a historic new military alliance – one that explicitly relegates New Zealand to the sidelines. New Zealanders can thank Jacinda Ardern and her Labour predecessors for turning their country into, at best, a strategic irrelevance, at worst, a client state of communist China. It
Peter Jacobsen fee.org Peter Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ottawa University and the Gwartney Professor of Economic Education and Research at the Gwartney Institute. He received his PhD in economics from George Mason University, and obtained his BS from Southeast Missouri State University. His research interest
Regimes are most visibly on the edge of collapse when the gap between the elite and the masses becomes a glaring, yawning chasm. When the peasants are trudging from one government restriction to another while the economy collapses around their ears, it’s a dangerous time for the elites to
Bill Bryson once wrote, of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, that in true American fashion, organisers stuffed up royally, but pretended that everything went like a dream. The same could be said for the 2020 presidential election. 2020 brutally exposed an election process that could be generously described as “a dog’
On May 29, the country was shocked by images in the mainstream media of a lockdown protester punching a police officer. It turns out that newly released bodycam footage paints an entirely different picture than what was initially reported. In the middle of the controversy was Nick Patterson. Nick was
Mason Goad fee.org Mason Goad is a student at the Schar School of Policy and Government, located at George Mason University. Back in December of 2020, then President-elect Biden said that he would not make vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory, nor did he think they should be mandatory. Given the
familyfirst.org.nz Below are some excerpts from the interview with Megyn Kelly (full article here) “In my sons’ school they asked the boys, one of the best all-boys schools in the country, whether they were ‘still sure’ they were boys,” Kelly said. “Are they ‘still sure’? They asked them
Today’s recall election in California will either be a decisive game-changer or, at best for the Democrats, a temporary reprieve before the storm of 2022. On the face of it the Democrats are firmly in charge of America: they control the Presidency, the House and the Senate. But that
The Editors mises.org The Editors of the Mises Institute. We oppose President Biden’s lawless and authoritarian new mandates announced yesterday. We also denounce his divisive rhetoric toward unvaccinated Americans, his reckless antipathy for federalism, and his threats to usurp state governors. Contra Mr. Biden, this is entirely about
Jim Goad wrote that the left have their heads “so far up their own asses with the idea that they are unimpeachably good, I suspect they may all soon suffocate to death”. As he admitted though, that was probably just so much wishful thinking. After all, Paddy Gower is somehow
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. A vexing thing about slippery slopes: The boulders tumbling
Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org “There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are
Robert Bridge rt.com Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of ‘Midnight in the American Empire,’ How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. In a massive overreach of government power, Joe Biden said federal and private employers must require their
Can you imagine if a white man dressed in a monkey outfit threw something at Vice President Kamala Harris? Or Barack Obama? The media would be in meltdown mode for weeks. We’d be treated to endless (more) op-eds about “racism”, “systemic racism”, “white privilege”, yada yada. Remember, when Joe
