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This Is Just Selective Moral Outrage
Pick a standard, Chris: you can’t rail against Trump’s board for including Putin while comfortably ignoring the UN’s roster of human-rights violators. Moral clarity isn’t selective. It’s universal – or it’s just politics masquerading as principle.
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More Australians Want to Keep the Date than Ever
The left’s annual hate-fest is backfiring splendidly.
Here We Go, Again
My response to Alice Soper discovering America is bad (again) and calling for a boycott. Another response to another NZ Herald article.
A Sober Analysis of the Indian Free Trade Deal
I reckon Luxon was hustled by some New Delhi sharpies. Turning on the same oily charm my local dairy owner uses to try and sell me two-year-old chicken soup.
One Nation Takes Aim at SA Election
Adds another star recruit, fielding candidates in every seat.
Helen Clark Just Cannot Shut The Hell Up About US Minerals Deal
The New Zealand media really need to stop asking her opinion on anything. Let her enjoy a harder dose of Relevance Deficit Disorder that she is clearly suffering from.
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Face of the Day
Henare noted the energy required to be successful in election year and the recent resignation of his colleague Adrian Rurawhe. He said he realised he was the only one left.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… eminently (adverb) - : to a high degree : very Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : When British physician Tobias Venner wrote in 1620 of houses "somewhat eminently situated," he meant that the houses were located at an elevated site—they were literally in a high place. That
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Te Pāti Māori budget row spills into High Court as expelled MP fights back
“Serious injustice.”
Nearly 90% of Auckland primary schools say new students lack basic skills
“Perhaps the number of kids not attending ECE, or as frequently, maybe those numbers are stacking up.”