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When Are They Going to Be Held Accountable?
These outrages are the consequences of an unaccountable class running the system.
A Different Incovenient Truth (This One Is True)
Here’s the conclusion no one on the megaphone side wants to say out loud: We were sold an apocalypse that hasn’t arrived, at a price that could have ended real, visible, human suffering many times over, to justify a level of societal control that has no end date.
Denying This Doesn’t Change the Data
American households are hurting. With wage growth lagging and inflation compounding, no amount of presidential bluster can mask the math.
This Is a World Record in Hypocrisy
Guinness World Records has just set a new standard – a world record in cowardice and moral bankruptcy.
This Just Confirms National’s Impoverished Imagination
Nice-to-haves and need-to-haves often amount to the same thing.
Was Churchill Really Responsible for WWII?
Even such demented revisionist nonsense merits a reasoned rebuttal.
One Rule for Hīkoi, Another for Tamaki
Whether people like him or not, the Battle for the Bridge has only intensified. And from the sound of it, Tamaki has no intention of stepping back.
Muldoon’s Vision vs Today’s Technocrats
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
The Untold Jacinda: A Book Review
JACINDA THE UNTOLD STORIES is an insightful, at times delightful, read – for anyone who’s not just trying to forget all about her.
The Most Important Lesson For Your Child’s Future
Maybe you don’t want this to be true and I understand this sentiment because you are nice. But it is true. Your child’s world will not be nice, so the time for being nice is over.