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Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Just the Tip of the Iceberg

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. cfact.org “Power

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A Critical Cusp – Lest We Forget

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Mary Hobbs, photographer, writer and publisher shares a poignant account of Anzac Day, reflecting on its history and its significance in the here and now as we stand on a seemingly critical cusp for the future of humanity. With national and

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And What of Our Future?

And What of Our Future?

Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made. JRR Tolkien Popular products still missing from supermarket shelves and school attendance and labour productivity below par: it’s the sick-note culture, as they’re calling it in the UK after the

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A Digital Dark Age

Bob Day Bob’s contribution to the Australian community has been reflected in a wide range of appointments including National President of the Housing Industry Association, Co-Founder and Inaugural President of Independent Contractors of Australia, Director of The Centre for Independent Studies, and Senator for South Australia. libertyitch.com ‘We

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The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

The Intifada Comes to America. Now What?

Frank Miele Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His newest book, “What Matters Most: God, Country, Family and Friends,” is available from his Amazon author page. realclearwire.com “Death to America!” We are used to that chant. Maybe

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Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others

Some Genocides Are More Equal Than Others

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, “Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science” (Pen & Sword/Frontline) is available now, and exposes how

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The Other Side of the Coin

The Other Side of the Coin

Miguel Alejandro Laborde Miguel Alejandro Laborde is a former NCO in the 160th SOAR (A), and a subject matter expert on defence aviation programs, capabilities, and platforms, with decades’ worth of experience in the aerospace industry supporting the joint force. realclearwire.com This opinion-editorial serves as a follow up – a

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Great Red Hope Goes Full Dictator

Great Red Hope Goes Full Dictator

Back in the heady days of the 2000s, the cream – or should that be “the scum” – of the Australian left were really fangirling over Hugo Chavez, then-president of Venezuela. So besotted were they by their new socialist strongman Big Daddy that they penned an open letter begging him to come

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Do We Need a Global Ban on Surrogacy?

Do We Need a Global Ban on Surrogacy?

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com Commercial surrogacy is not just an ethically controversial way of making babies: it is also a huge international industry. According to SkyQuest Technology Group, a market research company, it was worth about US$16 billion in 2023 and is predicted

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The Battle for Our Minds

Ramesh Thakur mercatornet.com Ramesh Thakur is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. An important takeaway from the last four years for many governments is the surprising ease of winning public compliance with demands for intrusive

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President Biden Must Not Encourage Illegal Mass Migration from Haiti

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

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What Iran Didn’t Win

What Iran Didn’t Win

As I wrote recently, Iran’s barrage of drones and missiles launched against Israel was a battlefield failure, but in many ways a propaganda victory. But, on the flipside of the ledger, there were more than a few ominous strategic outcomes for Iran. First off, the only casualty of Iran’

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Japan Is Going to the Moon

The space race was as much about geopolitics as it was about science, adventure, or the spirit of man, or whatever palaver Kennedy was prone to speechifyin’. The simple fact was the Soviet Union had humiliated its Cold War rival by launching the first satellite, then the first human into

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How’d the Last Lefty Love Affair with Islam Work Out?

How’d the Last Lefty Love Affair with Islam Work Out?

As I wrote recently, even the dim bulbs of the woke left are aware that shilling for the most regressive, misogynist, homophobic religious ideology in the world is an obvious and staggering hypocrisy. So, what do most of them do? What the left always do when they’re caught out:

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Hookers and Cruises on the Taxpayer Dollar

Hookers and Cruises on the Taxpayer Dollar

As I wrote recently, the all-consuming black hole of taxpayer-funding, the NDIS, is funding some of Australia’s worst rapists and paedophiles to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Some, like unrepentant serial sex offender Wayne Wilmot, north of a million dollars. Because he has a “mild

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Where Are the ‘Anti-war’ Left, Now?

Where Are the ‘Anti-war’ Left, Now?

According to the millions of leftists marching weekly for “Palestine”, it’s not that they hate Jews, they’re just anti-war. Above all, they piously witter, they’re concerned for the children. Which is odd, because, when it comes to a brutal war which is causing untold misery and death

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