Double Standards: Are Adults in the Room?
As humans, I think we can intuitively identify double standards and sadly, we are surrounded by many in society. Our young are beginning to call this out, but are the adults in the room?
As humans, I think we can intuitively identify double standards and sadly, we are surrounded by many in society. Our young are beginning to call this out, but are the adults in the room?
This IPO represents a strategic catastrophe. It enables China’s geopolitical ascent, legitimizes corporate espionage, and compromises America’s technological edge.
Governor, president, or policy institute creator – what’s her next career move?
If we excuse the erosion of these fundamental freedoms, we have learned nothing about history. Empires rise and fall, and so do nation states and their freedoms. They are often hard fought and easily lost.
Critics say Hipkins’ stance reflects a broader disconnect with everyday New Zealanders who are tired of bureaucratic language that erases biological reality.
It is deeply disrespectful to distort Jewish ritual into a tool for anti-Zionist activism. It is not justice. It is not liberation. It is appropriation.
Move your factories to NZ and get a 10 per cent tariff, not China’s 145 per cent rate.
The signal flare has gone up, the opportunity to deliver capabilities faster, cheaper, and more effectively is not only possible – it is imperative.
It isn’t just direct, obvious welfare, but a web of indirect dependency through pointless jobs and services tied to government. And it isn’t just an economic millstone – it’s a cultural rot. The US risks the same fate unless it heeds the warning.
It is to our eternal shame that in 2025 we are unprepared or unwilling to do what it takes to hand the baton of liberty to the next generations. Our negligence in defending it has rendered us undeserving.
To embrace Jewish identity fully (unapologetically and joyfully) is the most powerful response to those who have sought, and still seek, to erase it. Our answer to centuries of erasure is this: Am Yisrael Chai.
Children need stability, routine, security, and a mother and a father they can rely on. Welfare has robbed too many of these vital necessities. It isn’t the rest of New Zealand, the government, the public service, the Waitangi Tribunal, charities or academics who can fix this problem.