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The Right to Write

The Right to Write

There have been many articles written this week about whether or not the Christchurch terrorist should be allowed to write letters. Many liberals who supported abolishing the death penalty and supported the homosexual law reform bill have reacted emotionally to this issue and are not interested in upholding the rights

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A Self-deprecating Political Ad
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A Self-deprecating Political Ad

Before you watch this campaign ad in order to fully appreciate the puns and references you first need to understand the following: * “lightning never strikes twice” refers to left-wing Ehud Barak a former-PM of Israel * Barak means lightning in Hebrew * “boogie” is Moshe Yaalon a Former Defense Minister of Israel

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Sledge of the Day Goes To…

Sledge of the Day Goes To…

Today’s Sledge of the day goes to Winston Peters for his cutting theory on why Paula Bennett won’t seek re-election at Upper Harbour. “This decision is so that the National Party can axe her prior to coalition negotiations in 2020, after they’ve realised that Vernon Tava and

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The ‘Blue Green’ Party

The ‘Blue Green’ Party

Despite playing coy Simon Bridges and National would be happy to have a Blue-Green party as a possible coalition partner. it was put to Bridges that he was unlikely to say “no” to doing business with Tava’s party, and Bridges replied: “I think that’s right.” But Bridges said

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There Are Two Parts to the Paula Bennett Story
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There Are Two Parts to the Paula Bennett Story

The MSM have picked up on one part of the Paula Bennett story but have missed out the second part. Paula Bennett has announced that she is going list-only and will not seek re-election after becoming the campaign chair for the 2020 General Election. The media quite rightly picked up

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Happy Subscription Day

Happy Subscription Day

Happy Subscription day dear readers. Today is the day that you all can make a decision to support The BFD so that it will be fighting fit primed and ready for an exciting election year in 2020. Today I ask you one and all to subscribe to ensure that The

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Forbes Censors a Skeptical Astrophysicist’s Article

Forbes Censors a Skeptical Astrophysicist’s Article

Dr Nir J. Shaviv is a well-known astrophysicist with over 100 scientific papers to his credit and he is currently chairman of the Racah Institute of Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I think it’s safe to say that Dr. Shaviv knows a thing or two about science

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The National Party Want Your Feedback
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The National Party Want Your Feedback

On the National party’s website, they are asking the public to share their thoughts on six different topics in order to help them develop policy on them. National don’t want to be like the current Government, who didn’t do the work in Opposition and have now set

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National Cannot Take Botany for Granted
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National Cannot Take Botany for Granted

This photo was taken at a public meeting in Botany yesterday. Botany is an electorate where Jami-Lee Ross holds a very strong majority. National party people like to brag about how good their ground game is and they seem to think that they will win the Botany electorate off Jami-Lee

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Todays Stuff Up is from… Stuff. You would think that Stuff being a local media outlet would recognise the Canterbury Clothing logo when they see it but you would be wrong.

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Mayor’s Spending ‘Frivolous & Irresponsible’
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Mayor’s Spending ‘Frivolous & Irresponsible’

The Taxpayers’ Union has revealed that Tim Shadbolt the Mayor of  Invercargill has racked up $147,243 in mayoral expenses since late 2016. They claim that Shadbolt has shown fiscal irresponsibility by spending large amounts of money on frivolous or personal things. Seven different times, his card was used for

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Andrew Little Calls ACT’s Three Strikes Law ‘Fascism’

Andrew Little Calls ACT’s Three Strikes Law ‘Fascism’

When your political opponents have to resort to calling your policy “fascism” you know that they don’t have a strong counter-argument. Who was the idiot that thought it would be a good idea to give criminals the right to vote anyway? If they are incarcerated then clearly society has

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Covering Up An Alleged Sex Pest

Covering Up An Alleged Sex Pest

Allegedly, according to National party leader Paula Bennett, there is a sex pest/predator preying on some female employees who work in the parliamentary precinct. Allegedly these women went to Bennett to ask for help because allegedly the Labour party have told them that he is too important to be

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Mayoral Candidate Pokes Fun at PM
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Mayoral Candidate Pokes Fun at PM

Auckland Mayoral candidate John Tamihere has scored himself some free publicity from the MSM by poking fun at Jacinda Ardern. Mocking her much-vaunted kindness and no doubt her well-being budget as well, he has made the hilarious claim that as Auckland’s mayor he will create an 0800 JACINDA hotline

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‘Benevolent Racism’ harms Maori Students

‘Benevolent Racism’ harms Maori Students

Dr Melissa Derby has explained how Benevolent racism is still racism and why it harms Maori instead of helping them. ‘Racism’ is a term we hear often these days, […] the debate over the meaning of the term seems to rest on the issue of power, and who has it. This,

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