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It Seems Diversity Is Redefined
Hmm. Hypocrisy is one word that comes to mind. Priggishness, bigotry and intolerance are three others.
How One Man Wrote a Modern Myth
A single Wikipedia editor fabricated the ‘Islamic Golden Age’.
Is This Pork Barrel Politics?
It sounds less like a scientific inquiry and a lot more like a government quietly laying the tracks, funding the surveys, and preparing the ground for de facto Māori ownership of public energy resources.
The Great Strategic Voting Experiment of 2026
If the 2026 election can show that the ‘right’ can be coordinated, think about what other kinds of victories it could achieve. Now you understand why the leftist system seems so worried about strategic voting.
The Frauds and Lies
If Labour wins the election, don’t worry. Look in the mirror and say ‘I can get through anything!’ Go exercise that right brain of yours by painting a smiling painting of Chippy. If you see someone getting beaten up by gang members, it’s OK to do nothing because that’s what everyone else would do.
Quick Hit: Unemployment Hits 5.7% and Winston Saw It Coming
Unemployment is at 5.7%, 174,000 people are out of work and long-term joblessness is the highest since 1994. Winston Peters says he told National and ACT to delay their tax cuts.
Two Final Polls Say Overhangs Decide It, and the Left Is Banking on One
The final 1News Verian and Taxpayers’ Union-Curia polls both say electorate seats will decide this election and the left is counting on Te Pāti Māori winning seats its party vote cannot earn. So much for overhangs being a dirty trick.
Good Oil General Debate
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Face of the Day
Last week, during his show on the Platform, Laws said Opportunity’s female candidates were “stern”, “severe-looking women”, and “authoritarian fascists”.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… perseverate (verb) - 1a: to recur or repeat continually b: to intently focus one's attention on a thought or thoughts : fixate 2 psychology : to have or display an involuntary repetitive behavior or thought : to exhibit perseveration Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Looking at perseverate and
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
Laws doubles down before apology as Luxon rules him out of Cabinet
National leader Christopher Luxon has ruled out Michael Laws serving as a minister after the NZ First candidate mocked Opportunity Party candidates and described the party as an expression of authoritarian metropolitan liberalism.