AHNZ On the 1st November 1898, our expansionist State got its hooks on our oldest citizens by passing the Old-age Pensions Act into law. The State was setting itself up as the keeper of people in need- muscling in on the territory of family and church…. “WHEREAS it is
PA Pundits – International Corinne Weaver Corinne Weaver is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch and she works as a senior analyst for the Media Research Center at the NewsBusters site. As the Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow, her coverage on tech censorship, media bias, and pro-life issues have been
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, geological history, weather cycles, business and politics in Australia. He has no vested interests in any energy industries except as a consumer. Alarmist Over-reach For over 15 years the global warmists have become progressively
PA Pundits – International Fred Lucas Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and he is the co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. The focus of impeachment is now on the Democrat-controlled House and President Donald Trump, but the
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, geological history, weather cycles, business and politics in Australia. He has no vested interests in any energy industries except as a consumer. In the era before coal, oil and electricity, the environment suffered greatly. Whales
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Are benefits protection money? I heard Kim Workman expressing a view this morning that withholding benefits from gangs would result in more crime. He may well be right. But is that what Mickey Savage’s grand and noble idea has come to? That benefits are now paid
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Wednesday afternoon Michael and I presented to the Parliamentary Select Committee considering the Arms Legislation Bill. You can watch Michael’s submission and us both answering questions from MPs on behalf of COLFO below. I also presented a separate submission later in the
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Couple of quick points. Stuff is reporting that Labour abolished the sanction for not naming the father of a child on a benefit and that National would reverse this. The removal of the sanction does not kick in until April 2020. Hasn’t happened yet. Also reported
PA Pundits – International Katrina Trinko Katrina Trinko is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation and co-host of The Daily Signal podcast A friend of mine has an amusing tale of a heated fight she got in as a child with her then-teenage
Owen Jennings ‘So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot’ George Orwell Carbon Free by 2050 is playing with fire. More accurately the aim is to achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions globally by
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com If National comes out promising to attack gang welfare dependency you can bet your bottom dollar the Left will counter with, “But what about the children?” The Left is as prone to manipulating children as pawns in their pro-welfare arguments as the gangs are in using
Mark Every now and then the sheep mask slips just low enough on the wolf’s face for us to catch a glimpse of where things are going to end up long term. Case in point: The Guardians of the Bays, in this Stuff article, described as “a group initially
Croaking Cassandra The weekend newspapers had several articles highlighting the second anniversary of the New Zealand First choice that led to the creation of the current government. There was, for example, the double-page spread in the Herald devoted to a not-at-all-searching interview with the Prime Minister
PA Pundits – International Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is an editor and commentary writer for The Daily Signal, and co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast at The Heritage Foundation. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg came to Capitol Hill last week for a House Financial Services Committee hearing where
David Theobald I see with dismay, but not surprise, that Oxford University is the latest British educational institution to adopt this ridiculous jazz hands rubbish in lieu of clapping. This is to avoid triggering or offending those who may be disturbed by loud noises. Give me a bloody break. More
Mark What really scares me about the current arms control legislation is that none of it would have prevented the March 15 terror attacks. The fact remains that Brendan Tarrant had no criminal convictions; he easily obtained a firearms licence and nobody knew what was coming – until it was too
